America asked the world to send the huddled masses of tired and poor, what America got was the very best that the world had to offer. These people, the immigrants of the early 1900’s,came filled with stories of the history of their homeland they brought their culture and values and passed them on as lessons to their children. These lessons were often hidden as buried treasures in parables, old stories and one liners.

The immigrant Greeks often referred to these as parameethia or fables. They borrowed some from Aesop or it may be that Aesop recorded fables that had been handed down for centuries.

The world’s history exists as it has been recorded in books and writings but a people's heritage,values and culture becomes ongoing when it is told orally from father to son and mothers to daughters for generations. The challenge is to record them so that they will not be lost forever. Parables and Proverbs have been identified as the voice of the people.

I have attempted to record some of these sayings and writings of the Greek people in an attempt to save them so they will not be lost and as a reference point for the younger people who are struggling to connect with themselves and to collect the inheritance that their ancestors left as a reminder of a way of life.