Local Greek Community Celebrates Independence Day

Many generations of local Greek-Americans celebrated Greek Independence Day. They gathered at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Vestal to mark March 25th, 1821, the day Greeks launched the revolution that led to the end of 400 years of domination by the Turkish Ottoman Empire. Members of the Greek community held a brief church service followed by a flag raising. Later, they held a ...

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