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Saturday, January 20, 2018

As it did for GREEKS a century ago, America lures immigrants who dream

My father, a GREEK Orthodox priest from the island of Crete, immigrated to America in 1916, as a parish priest in the mining town of Price, Utah. His parishioners were young GREEK miners similar to those in the photograph. The Price miners, all from our family's island of Crete, had built a church but had ...


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