Category Archives: History

I Wept for Greece

Posted on November 23, 2017 by Ron Pavellas

When tears well in my eyes upon reading a passage in a book, I must explore the possible reasons for this. I am only sixty percent through reading “Postcards from Greece,” by Victoria Hislop. Her story is unerringly soulful and … Continue reading →

Posted in Greece, History | Tagged Cartes Postales from Greece, eleftheria i thanatos, Freedom or Death, Greek Church, Greek Civil War, Holy Roman Empire, philhellenes, Treaty of Constantinople, Turkey, Victoria Hislop | 4 Comments

Letter from Poland

Posted on November 16, 2016 by Ron Pavellas

I recently visited Kraków, Poland, with nine of my writing colleagues, for a ‘writing retreat’ and some minor tourism. We arrived 10 November, the day before an important national holiday, National Independence Day… … a national day in Poland celebrated … Continue reading →

Posted in History, War & Peace | Tagged Communism, Habsburg Empire, Jakub Wydrzynski, Judaism, Kingdom of Prussia, Kraków, Lublin, Massolit Bookstore, Poland, Russian Empire, Ukraine, Warsaw | 5 Comments

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