Once upon a time in a small village outside Sparta, Greece, a family gathered to bid adieu to one of their own. Turned off by the politics du jour (or, as it were, du decades), Lakis decided to leave behind his family, the olive oil factory they had operated for years, and the small-town life of Sparta in the hopes of hitting it big in the bustling metropolis of.... Wilkes-Barre, PA. More than half a century later, when I would meet for the first time the family my Pappous left behind, my mother's cousin would tell me that although she had been devastated by her favorite...
