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Uncovering the History of the Albuquerque Greek Community, 1880-1952

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Why did Greeks within the late 1800s cross a sea, an ocean and a continent, to start new lives in the USA? Why did they sooner or later migrate to a small dusty town within the desert Southwest? How did Albuquerque transform a center of Greek-The us within the 1930s? And how did the decision to build the church in 1944 within the Huning Highland originate from a tragic event? This book answers these questions and more. It also details the compassionate response of the community to the appearance of Greek ”lungers” searching for the cure to the ravages of tuberculosis, and traces the decision to establish in 1937 in Albuquerque the Nation’s only Greek-American tuberculosis sanatorium. This book begins with the first Greeks coming, on the turn of the nineteenth century, to Albuquerque with the railroad. It details how they started immigrating to the town in large numbers after the First World War, and shows how, by the 1920s, these indomitable men owned and operated a large number of businesses within the heart of new Albuquerque. It also shows how their brides made their very own unique contribution by transforming the Greek population into a community. They assimilated into the USA and contributed to Albuquerque’s ethnic and cultural diversity. This country gave them opportunity, and in turn, they gave their best.

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