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Helen Papanikolas
In 1906 a young, semiliterate Greek arrived in America with a fewdollars in his pocket and his people’s legacy of proverbs, superstitions, and cultural traits to guide him through the…
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Beginning with a discussion of the author’s childhood in Helper, Utah, this book presents the story of her parent’s individual emigrations to the United States, their meeting and courtship, and…
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Helen Papanikolas has been honored frequently for her work in ethnic and labor history. Among her many publications are Toil and Rage in a New Land: The Greek Immigrants in…
The title of Helen Papanikolas’ second collection of short stories, The Apple Falls from the Apple Tree, is taken from an old Greek proverb and speaks of the new generation’s…
The boys and men who left their Greek valley and mountain villages in the early 1900s for America came with amulets their mothers had made for them.
