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The Rosedale Lunch Project: Chapter II - Pólemos
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The Rosedale Lunch Project. From the Aegean to the Motor City. Tuesday, October 5, 2010. Chapter II - Pólemos. Being a large, fertile island with many gifts,. Has long been the object of invasion. Strong in trade and naval skill, the island has always been at the centre of issues of Aegean dominance. Like many places ancient in place and memory, it has had its share of violence and tragedy. Began in 499 B.C. and. In the battle of. One of history's greatest naval battles. After the defeat of. And its peop...
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The Rosedale Lunch Project: September 2010
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The Rosedale Lunch Project. From the Aegean to the Motor City. Sunday, September 26, 2010. Chapter I - The Land of Homer. Our story really begins on. The place where our family hails from. More accurately, the village of Lagada, a tiny fishing village a few kilometres north of. Town, on the east coast of the island. Map of Chios - Eastern Aegean. The island is also known as one of the possible birthplaces of the poet Homer, to whom the epic Iliad. Reproduction of Chios' ancient seal. Was one of the origi...
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The Rosedale Lunch Project: Chapter I - The Land of Homer
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The Rosedale Lunch Project. From the Aegean to the Motor City. Sunday, September 26, 2010. Chapter I - The Land of Homer. Our story really begins on. The place where our family hails from. More accurately, the village of Lagada, a tiny fishing village a few kilometres north of. Town, on the east coast of the island. Map of Chios - Eastern Aegean. The island is also known as one of the possible birthplaces of the poet Homer, to whom the epic Iliad. Reproduction of Chios' ancient seal. Was one of the origi...
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The Rosedale Lunch Project: Chapter V - Welcome to America!
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The Rosedale Lunch Project. From the Aegean to the Motor City. Sunday, June 5, 2011. Chapter V - Welcome to America! The film can not have been that far from the reality. As those that had gone before and those who would arrive as such for a time after, they would have crammed onto the deck of their transport and watched as the fog parted and Liberty herself stood before them, a beacon of freedom, a new goddess that was familiar and yet somehow foreign all at the same time. Would he like his son? This la...
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The Rosedale Lunch Project: Chapter III - The Wine Dark Sea
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The Rosedale Lunch Project. From the Aegean to the Motor City. Sunday, November 7, 2010. Chapter III - The Wine Dark Sea. Ruined stone dwellings of Lagada village. Where Ploumi lived with her son Manoual. Whenever I imagine the Greek Islands, I hear music. Island music is generally happier and more upbeat than that of the mainland which is dark, aggressive. However, during those dark years, how can the music have been anything but dark and brooding? Will he like me? US Navy cooks at work in the 1940s -.
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The Rosedale Lunch Project: October 2010
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The Rosedale Lunch Project. From the Aegean to the Motor City. Tuesday, October 5, 2010. Chapter II - Pólemos. Being a large, fertile island with many gifts,. Has long been the object of invasion. Strong in trade and naval skill, the island has always been at the centre of issues of Aegean dominance. Like many places ancient in place and memory, it has had its share of violence and tragedy. Began in 499 B.C. and. In the battle of. One of history's greatest naval battles. After the defeat of. And its peop...
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The Rosedale Lunch Project: June 2011
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The Rosedale Lunch Project. From the Aegean to the Motor City. Sunday, June 5, 2011. Chapter V - Welcome to America! The film can not have been that far from the reality. As those that had gone before and those who would arrive as such for a time after, they would have crammed onto the deck of their transport and watched as the fog parted and Liberty herself stood before them, a beacon of freedom, a new goddess that was familiar and yet somehow foreign all at the same time. Would he like his son? This la...
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The Rosedale Lunch Project: March 2011
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The Rosedale Lunch Project. From the Aegean to the Motor City. Sunday, March 13, 2011. Chapter IV - 'Chees bourger ena Coke! 65279; New York. One might have taken in a double-feature at the Apollo Theatre or headed on in to one of the many lower level bars for some jazz where nicely dressed black men and sultry songstresses played cool to the regulars and some newbies. In the 40s, there would have been kids reading comic books on the corners of sidewalks lined with black Fords, De Sotos and Cadillacs.
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The Rosedale Lunch Project: Chapter IV - 'Chees bourger ena Coke!'
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The Rosedale Lunch Project. From the Aegean to the Motor City. Sunday, March 13, 2011. Chapter IV - 'Chees bourger ena Coke! 65279; New York. One might have taken in a double-feature at the Apollo Theatre or headed on in to one of the many lower level bars for some jazz where nicely dressed black men and sultry songstresses played cool to the regulars and some newbies. In the 40s, there would have been kids reading comic books on the corners of sidewalks lined with black Fords, De Sotos and Cadillacs.