shirley | August 6, 2010
July 21st was the anniversary of the death of the artist Arshile Gorky. Arshile Gorky (whose real name is Vosdanik Adoian) died on July 21, 1948 at the young age of 44. I remembered his name as a famous artist but it wasn’t until I saw the movie, Ararat, that I realized he was Armenian. [...]
shirley | July 17, 2010
I ran across this today. I really had no idea who the Hughes brothers were. I guess I’m behind on Hollywood news, but I’ve come to find out that they are half-black and half Armenian. Being that they were raised by their Armenian mother, they relate more to their Armenian side. They have a [...]
shirley | July 13, 2010
My grandfather, Baghdasar Kalalshian, died before I was born. Baghdasar was born in 1880 in Kharpet; Historic Armenia; Ottoman Turkey. He died a mysterious death in 1925 in California at the Stockton State Hospital. I was never able to know my grandfather, and the circumstances surrounding his life and death were talked about sparingly and [...]
