Made Into America: Immigrant Stories Archive

              Panayotis Kalogerakos lived in Langadia, a mountainside village in Arkadia, in Peloponnesos, Greece. While it was beautiful there,  Panayotis wanted to leave Greece as a young man in order to escape the fighting that was going on in the Balkans at that time. In addition,  there were attractive job opportunities in the industrialized ... Read More »

Liz Gulevich was one of our featured storytellers at our salon November 9, 2014 called “Foreign Correspondents: Immigrant Odysseys.” She tells a captivating story about the empowerment of her immigrant mother during her mother’s sunset years in Palo Alto, California. There’s a surprise near the end that involves an audience member. Read More »