I quit my job as an InStyle magazine editor in New York, rented out my apartment, and moved to my family’s isolated village, Lia, near the Albanian border.

Gage said, 'In 2002, I decided to find out.

In deciding to embark to on this journey Ms. But I wondered if I could ever live in the village my family came from, instead of just passing through for short visits.' I knew the village had changed since they were raised there-it now has electricity, running water, even a paved road running through the middle of it.

Gage began, 'Like many hyphenated Greeks born abroad to parents with strong attachments to their native land, I grew up hearing the stories my aunts and father told about the remote mountain village where they were born. Kennedy.WASHINGTON, DC-On June 23, 2005, AHI hosted a book signing for Eleni Gage at the Hellenic House for her new book North of Ithaka: A Journey Home Through A Family’s Extraordinary Past.Įleni Gage gave a unique presentation of her book, North of Ithaka, in that she did not read an excerpt from the book but opted to give a personal account of her experiences while trying to rebuild her ancestral home in the village of Lia. After he turned his paper in his Teacher viewed the paper and published it.His paper was really good that he got awarded a plaque from John F. In the paper he wrote he mentioned that the coming of spring always reminded him of the last time he said goodbye to his mother. He did not like the idea of thinking about his past it brought to many terrible memories but at the end he insisted. The difficult task he had to do was to write about what happened to his family in Greece. He met her by following the Lutheran minister during News paper club, their he started learning how to put out a newspaper and skills that would last him twenty five years.He got in a advanced class later on and learned the best of grammar and began to understand the logic and structure of the English language.

Four years later when he was enrolled in high school he met this teacher named Marjorie Hurd. Later on he his sisters were taken with their dads and left to the U.S. In the essay “ The Teacher who changed my life”, by Nicholas Cage , the young mans mother, Eleni Gatzoyiannis had been imprisoned, tortured ,and shot by communist guerrillas for sending him and three of his sisters to freedom.

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