PAN Entertainment presents…
The odyssey of Greek immigration to America
A 12-part documentary series about the history of Greek immigration and the Greek presence in America, from Theodoros Griego, the first Greek to come ashore in Florida in 1528, to the present day.
Greek Americans of the first, second, third and fourth generations tell their own stories, set against archival footage and new footage from a long road trip through the American towns and cities, big and small, where Greeks live.
It is a series about memory and identity. It moves between past and present to show what the Greeks of America gave their new country, what it made of them, and how, one way or another, they kept looking toward their own Ithaca.
Spring 2028ERT Cosmos
Academic advisors
Producer
Konstantinos Moriatis
PAN Entertainment
Co-producer
Alexis Varouxakis
Adrenaline Entertainment
Written & directed by
Alexis Kardaras
Yiannis Karapiperidis
Pick a place on the map
California, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada.
The whole route on Google Maps
pages from the road
Pages from a road trip through Greek America. Click to turn them, drag a corner, or pick a place on the map.
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New York American, April 16, 1912. “Our Dead in Utah,” The Daily Worker, March 14, 1924: Library of Congress, Chronicling America. The Greek Line’s “Nea Hellas” postcard: Wikimedia Commons. George Touhouliotis at the Satyricon: The Oregonian / OregonLive. Postcard “Tarpon Springs, Fla. Greek Sponge Divers” (Raphael Tuck & Sons for C. D. Webster, early 20th century): public domain. AHEPA dinner at the Olympic Hotel, Seattle, 1950: Greeks in Washington Museum. Postcard “Aberdeen, Wash.” by Lon Lewis, 1911: Library of Congress, public domain. The Ferry Building, San Francisco (1906) and the port of Montreal (Detroit Publishing Co.), the Sacramento rail yard (1936) and a storefront in Fresno (1939, Dorothea Lange, FSA/OWI), Cordova Street, Vancouver (1900, Underwood & Underwood), the harbor at Providence (ca. 1905), the harbor at Baltimore (ca. 1905), St. George Street and King Street in St. Augustine (1936, Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1902, Detroit Publishing Co.), Charlotte (1943, FSA/OWI), Toledo, Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Wisconsin Street in Milwaukee, Canal Street in New Orleans and the Galveston seawall (Detroit Publishing Co.), Las Vegas (1940, FSA/OWI), Yonge Street in Toronto (1911): Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, no known restrictions. The plaque at the Avero House: kalami.us. The Dikeou family (Denver, 1901): from Steve Frangos’s article “Mile High City Greeks” (The National Herald, 2009), public domain by age. Fr. Theoclitos Triantafilides: from the booklet “The Greek Texans” by the Institute of Texan Cultures. Archbishop Iakovos with Presidents Eisenhower, Carter (1980) and Clinton: White House photographs. The journal’s engravings were drawn from photographs by Carol M. Highsmith (Library of Congress, no known restrictions), from A. Loeffler’s photograph of Ellis Island (1905, Library of Congress) and from objects in the Smithsonian collections (Open Access, CC0); the Ford Model A wheel from a National Photo Company photograph (1928, Library of Congress).
Ports of Europe: the harbor entrance at Le Havre, the outer harbor of Cherbourg, ships at Naples, the harbor of Marseille and Genoa (photochroms, ca. 1890–1900): Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Photochrom Print Collection, no known restrictions. The harbor of Genoa (Alfred Noack): Wikimedia Commons, public domain. The Canal Grande in Trieste (1910): Fortepan, no. 95045, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Map: pack train of burros in Breckenridge (1890s, Otto Westermann) and the Mahoning-Hull-Rust mine in Hibbing (postcard, ca. 1910): Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fred and Jo Mazzulla Collection, public domain. Downtown San Diego and Michigan Street in South Bend (Tichnor postcards, ca. 1930–1945), Pera and Galata in Constantinople (postcard, ca. 1907–1915): Boston Public Library, Digital Commonwealth, no known restrictions. Ermoupoli, Syros (ca. 1865, Dimitris Konstantinou): Boston Public Library, Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection, public domain. Aegina, Saronic Gulf (Fred Boissonnas, “En Grèce par monts et par vaux,” 1910): Rijksmuseum, public domain. The windmills of Chios: Vasiliki Mastropetrou, Unsplash. St. Anthony’s Monastery in Florence and Leonidio: Wikimedia Commons.
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