Drystone walling is the art of the minimal. The art of necessity. It is the first form of recycling. A field is enclosed using nothing but its own materials. It is the art of congeniality, peacefully separating two fields, while often revealing the harmonious effort of two or more pairs of hands working together.
Archaeologist Yannos Kourayos has been mainly associated with the excavation at Despotiko, the small island to the west of Antiparos, which came to prominence even before it officially opens its gates to the public. Indeed, this excavation, which began 28 years ago, and advanced despite numerous adversities, was destined to become his life’s work.
Nikos Malatestas is a low-key, serious and methodical person, with a deep love for Paros, committed to collective action and backed by a technological professional background.
Konstantina Andreakou has identified her life with the music and choirs of Paros. On the occasion of this year's award of the Archilochos choir in an international competition in Romania, she guides us on this journey full of notes.
The interview of Maroulia Kontou took place the day after the 1st Choir Meeting held by the Mythodia Conservatory. She was exhausted but exhilarated; she had managed to realize yet another plan, yet another dream of hers. Two highly competent mixed choirs had travelled all the way from Athens to meet the audience of Paros and, along with the choir of Mythodia, offer them a sensational musical evening.
6,885 nautical miles! That’s the distance that lies between San Francisco and Paros. That venture also comprised other, shorter journeys, but it mainly entailed a long inward journey for Dimitra Skandali which, thankfully, keeps on going...
Susan Daboll was a familiar face and name even before we actually met. I had noticed her tall juvenile figure pass through the Holland Tunnel Gallery, the old Azari house and I had seen her photos in an exhibition at the same space. The interview with Susan Daboll opened for me a window to two worlds: the world of the artist and the world of the wife of the late Takis Dimitrakopoulos who passed in 2020 and their home, the iconic mansion of this historic family, right in the heart of the town of Parikia.
At the heart of Drios, in a space that lives and breathes the sea even without facing it, Myrto Tabouratzaki has set her dream into motion: putting forward solutions that turn a mere dwelling into a home. And successfully so, as she carries fond memories of Paros while being open to what the future may hold.
On the occasion of the publication of the book "Un Enfant de Paros" by Yannis Ragousis, the journalist Alain Desauvage presents us the work and its author.
In that June of bygone 1958, the then fledgling writer Truman Capote arrives at the Meltemi Hotel in Paros. He has just finished his short novel Breakfast at Tiffany’s and is looking for a break from the turbulent waters of the New York literary scene. Now was the time for letting the sun and the blue Aegean, parties, drinking, adventure and love into his life.
