A Bouquet of Praise for Helen Papanikolas

Karanikas, Alexander. 2002. “A Bouquet of Praise for Helen Papanikolas.” Greece In Print: A Journal of Greek Literature and Culture. The Hellenic Literature Society’s Literary Review. No. 170/171 (July/August): 13–14.

Keywords: Greek American History; Helen Papanikolas; “An Amulet of Greek Earth”; Alexander Karanikas; Greek American Literary Magazines.

Testimony about the experience of an immigrant woman crossing the Atlantic [most probably on board the SS Thessaloniki which “nearly sank in a hurricane in December, 1915”: “I remember her [Karanikas’s mother] describing the waves ‘higher than the smokestacks’ of the ship, how they feared drowning in the ocean, and how they prayed to the Panaghia to save them” (14).

A Bouquet of Praise for Helen Papanikolas

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