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Greek Independence ) a I D E M I K I W ( MARCH 21, 2020 Celebrating Greek Independence ) A I D E M I K I W ( 9 2 8 1 , S N E H T A , S P O O R T R A C I L A P , S S E H N O V R E T E P The National Herald T H D E L N A AT ER IONAL H www.thenationalherald.com 2 Greek Independence Day Special THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 21, 2020 Greek Independence Day, Chicago-Style 1895-96 By Stavros Stavridis on Kinzie Street and near Clark by Fa - patriotism had enjoined its general use ther Peter Phiambolis. After the April to the confusion and abolition of the For the Greeks living in Greece and 1896 church service, Father Phiambo - dialects.” those in the diaspora, March 25 is an lis, Baron de Schlippenbach (Russian Before this, “a Peloponnesian, Al - important day on the Greek national Consul), Count Roswadowski (Italian banian, Chiote, Cretan, and Anatolian" calendar. It is the time that Greeks re - Consul), Arnold Holinger (Swiss Con - had gathered at an inn with "each member when their ancestors com - sul), and Charles Hutchinson (Greek speaking a dialect that none of the oth - menced their struggle for freedom from Consul-General) made speeches to the ers understands." They spoke a "babel Ottoman rule on March 25,1821. small congregation. The Greek Consul of tongues: when a courier enters The Daily Inter Ocean (1872-1914), sent his secretary A.W. Foote to repre - "telling of Greek independence." With a Chicago morning newspaper with a sent him at this event. John C. Pala - the assistance of a 'scholar', they daily circulation of 50,000 copies sup - maris thanked the Consuls for their adopted Greek as their national lan - ported the Republican side of U.S. pol - beautiful contributions. While the guage. itics. It published two articles titled newspaper did not report on the con - Those who participated in the play ‘Their day to shout. Greeks celebrate tent of the speeches, one can safely as - included: J.C. Palamaris, John Stavro, an anniversary in their history…" and sume that the presenters would have John Volikos, A. Manutos, Xenophon "Gala day for Greeks. Celebrate their praised the heroic efforts of the Greeks Paraskevopoulos, Ath. Athanasion, Hiar emancipation from the rule of Turkey” in 1821. Contos, N. Michaelopoulos, J. Poulos, on April 7, 1895 and1896. Both stories The second part involved an after - John Andrew, James Granakopoulos, reported on the celebration of Greek noon parade "south on Clark street V. Contos, N. Stathakis, and N. Geor - Independence Day by that city's small from the Northside Turner Hall to gacopoulos. Pianist Kate Matoxes ac - Greek community, which numbered Adams Street, east on Adams Street to companied by an orchestra, played dif - 2,000. The Greeks at that time used State Street, north on State Street to ferent tunes and the 'Ethnikos Hymnos’ the Julian calendar (March 25, old Lake Street, west on Lake Street to (Greek national anthem). Greek and style), whereas April 7 in America was Dearborn Street, north on Dearborn American flags decorated Turner hall. based on the Gregorian calendar. Street and Dearborn Avenue to Division In 1896, both Greeks and Americans According to Dr. John Volikos, a Street, west on Division Street to Clark attended a dance at Turner Hall. The leading member of Chicago’s Greek Street, south on Clark Street to North - Americans were much at "home" with community, remarked that there were side Turner Hall." During the proces - their "waltzes…quadrilles," whereas only a handful of educated Greeks liv - sion, Greek societies, including the Ly - the Greeks indulged in their traditional ing in Chicago, whereas a vast majority curgus Benevolent Society founded by dances. The Daily Inter Ocean de - of them were poor and uneducated. Greeks from Laconia in 1892, and scribed the Greek dances as “graceful The latter group initially was engaged Greek community were “led by John and pretty to look at.” Greek identity in selling fruit in the streets. In Greece, C. Palamaris, P.A Manusos, Constantine also could be expressed through danc - there were very few opportunities for Mitchell, M. Comonzis, Dr. John.Vo - ing. Some of those attending this social advancement on the social ladder, likos, and John Stravro." function included G. Gianokopoulos, whereas Chicago offered them a chance The 1896 procession was an excit - J.C. Palamaris, E. Lamprakis, A. An - to improve their socio-economic posi - ing affair. It was "headed by eight po - drew, G. Psycharis, Peter Poulos, and tion and status. Others learned “me - licemen in command of Sergeant Fink W. Kabouris. A management committee chanical trades.” Some Greeks made of East Chicago Avenue station. Behind headed by P. Thomson, T. Poulos, P. their fortunes, returned to Greece, mar - a band of sixty pieced, playing Greek Williams, C. Michel, N. Carlas, J. Gi - ried, and brought their brides back with and American airs, came members of anokpoulos, J. Politis, P. Lambros, G. them to America. Generally speaking, the Society of Lycurgus wearing hand - School, N. Kelavos and others had or - however, most Greeks tended to marry some regalia.” ganized this successful social event. American, Swedish, German, Irish, and They received warm support from Nicholas P. Stathakis, the Chicago German women. Very few single Greek "onlookers" during their two-hour pro - correspondent of Athens newspapers women ventured across the Atlantic to cession. The playing of "Greek and subjugation. In the late 19th century, tural and social events held in the Logos and Akropolis, worked very dili - North America during the late 19th American airs" symbolized the dual loy - many Greeks still lived outside the evening. In 1895, a comedy play titled gently to make this social event a great century. alty of Chicago Greeks towards their small Hellenic Kingdom, in Asia Minor, Babel, set in Nafplion, Peloponnesos, success. The celebration of Greek Indepen - old and adopted homeland. They were the Dodecanese, Thrace, Macedonia, was based on the Greek war of inde - The Daily Inter Ocean stated that dence Day has three parts to it, as evi - also grateful to America for economic and Crete under Ottoman rule. After pendence. The play showed that the “what the Greeks have done in Chicago denced in the two news accounts. The opportunities, social advancement, and the procession, celebrations continued "Greeks had become nationalized by in the short space of ten years may be first one involved a Liturgy conducted the freedom to celebrate and maintain at Turner Hall. the adoption of a language, not exactly taken as an indication of what they will at the Greek Orthodox Church located their Hellenic identity free of Ottoman The final installment included cul - classic Greek, but so near akin to it that do in the years to come.” Meanings and Memories of Parades By Constantine S. Sirigos The Golden Chain of Hellenism which extends millennia deep into the mists of prehistory consists not only of the threads of literature and the remains of monuments but also of the fila - ments of our own memories which melt into the haze of our childhood, recollections of events and celebrations that turn the words of our schoolbooks into echoes of the poundings of our own hearts accompanying the bands that stirred our younger selves with crowds on Fifth Avenue. In our little chests we felt the very passion of the heroes of 1821. Alas the parade has been postponed. This year Manhattan’s most famous boulevard will not welcome spring with a joyous sea of blue and white. We will not feel the glorious illusion of sunshine on a rainy day late March day when our faces and souls light up as the Evzones and todays mirror images of our - selves, our own children and grandchildren, march by dressed in professional splendor and the magic of childhood respectively. There will be no Greek parades anywhere in 2020 around March 25, one year before the bi-centennial of the revolution we celebrate, not in New York, and not in the Hellenic Homeland either, a little voice just told me. As I write these lines, moments after I thought to call my Greek-Irish American colleague to wish him a happy St. Patrick’s, whose parade TNH/KOSTAS BEJ/FILE was also hacked by the The Greek flag-raising ceremony in 2018 at Bowling Green in Lower Manhattan took place under sunny skies with the Evzones coronavirus – I received participating. a message not from the Angel of the Lord of the Feast of the Annuncia - tion, but the Municipal Greek Independence Day: Authorities of modern Athens telling me, in Greek and English, her - alded by ominous tones Celebrating Heroes and Philhellenes and a woman’s voice: “Do your part” to stem TNH ARCHIVES the spread of the coron - avirus, “do not leave your house tonight.” By Eleni Sakellis haps most well-known, Lord Byron, had And indeed I will do my part, because as a citizen and Greek been inspired by his travels in Greece before Orthodox Christian I will express my love for my neighbor. Hap - This year, we celebrate the 199th An - 1821 to write some of his most famous pily, because with my God-given reason I know that if each of niversary of the start of the Greek War of works. In his poems, he wrote movingly us looks out for the other, we ourselves will be protected too, Independence. The plans for the bicenten - about the struggle of the people suffering and we will overcome this crisis the way our ancestors faced nial celebrations in 2021 are already un - under the oppression of the Ottoman Em - adversity before and after 1821.
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