It was the latter part of November 1922 when my mother, still Takouhie Charverdian, 16, and her sister Hripsema, wed…
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I feel blessed that I have in my possession the notes and tapes of many long conversations with my mother,…
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The purpose of this column over the next few weeks is to establish an historical record of conversations I had…
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My mother was known to be an excellent cook and baker, but one day at the dinner table, when a…
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Robert Joseph Kessel, 80, my husband of almost 52 years, passed away March 1 leaving me reeling with sorrow and…
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The Metro Detroit area has sustained another devastating loss with the passing of a devoted Armenian activist, Avedis George Mishigian,…
Read More » Some things are meant to be, like the blind date meeting of Julie Karadian and Raffi Der Manuelian. Romance arrived…
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In 1912, Armen Tigranian wrote the beautiful opera “Anoush,” based on Hovhannes Tumanyan’s poem of the same name, which became…
Read More » I remember them all so fondly, those elderly Armenian bachelors back in the 1950’s when I was a teenager. They…
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Olivia Ani Mouradian, 13, of Milford Township, Mich., is a third-generation Armenian, the daughter of Vahan and Kathy Mouradian, and…
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