NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.—Class officers, athletes, honor students, musicians, and community volunteers. This year’s crop of high school graduates in Merrimack Valley (MV) certainly made the Armenian community quite proud of its achievements throughout local schools. […]
How’s my summer going, you may ask? Rather nutty at the moment, gasp! Thanks to the squirrel population at my lake home, I’m spending my spare time warding off the predators instead of feeding the […]
People often ask me where I get my ideas for stories. Most of them are self-initiated and spontaneous. They come to me during periods of insomnia. They hatch like chicken eggs when I’m in deep […]
June 8, 2016 “What’s cancer, grandpa?” “An illness, buddy. It’s when you’re sick and trying to get better.” “Do you have cancer?” The voice belonged to a 7-year-old child so near and dear to me. […]
God bless the American dream! As you may know, America is a land of immigrants where refugees can build and develop a lifestyle that suits their very needs. My parents took advantage of the many […]
A piece of my valued lifestyle has wound up in the best of hands. Remember my dilemma about what to do with my camera collection gathering dust in the basement? After months, really years, they’ve […]
Inside an arena of heartache and recovery, one team stood out during the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life in my hometown. Team ARARAT. It’s a team I was able to put together in a […]
Anna Yeshilian is one of those magnetic women who, upon first introduction, stays with you and refuses to leave. If you’re lucky enough to run across her some day at the Armenian Museum of America—or […]
Fate often works in strange ways. One night, I find myself hobnobbing with a crowd of 300 at a hotel, delirious from Boston traffic. The next afternoon, here I am, sitting quietly by a genocide […]
BOSTON, Mass.—Edvard Pogossian is his father’s keeper—a chip off the same musical block. Twenty-six years after his dad debuted with Armenian Night at the Pops, on comes the son to apply the same finesse with […]
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