The show featured a telephone interview with Mrs. Georgia Charpantidou, who wrote the book “Flesh and Bones of the Distant Homeland – The History of the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne and Victoria from Its Founding Until 1972.” The book, published in Greek and English by Themelio Publications, is the result of a three-year research project involving the study of many documents, such as the minutes and archives of the Melbourne Community, the Australian State Archives, the Dardalis Archives for Greek Diaspora at La Trobe University, and Australian Greek and English newspapers. “It is moving to read the minutes of the first meeting in 1898,” Mrs. Charpantidou noted. She settled in Melbourne in 2014.
The photograph is from the Greek-Australian newspaper “Neos Kosmos.”