The postwar village · Ancient Lerna · Village life
An aerial photo of Lerna and Myloi
1968 Probable
Very probably in June 1968 the Jesuit photographer Raymond V. Schoder flew over the gulf and photographed Lerna and Myloi from the east: the shelter over the House of the Tiles, the village, the railway and the orchards.
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- Ancient Lerna, Village life
- Certainty
- Probable likely, but not fully proven
Pictures
Oblique aerial view of Lerna and Myloi from the east: the excavation with the House of Tiles shelter, the village, railway and road, the spring stream reaching the sea, beach and orchards. Raymond V. Schoder SJ; Perseus Digital Library 1990.30.0068 (courtesy Bolchazy-Carducci)
Sources
- R. V. Schoder SJ, aerial photograph, Perseus Digital Library 1990.30.0068
Also in this period
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1950–1969
Souvlaki passed up to the train windows
Because so many trains stopped at the junction of Myloi, the village became known for souvlaki. Sellers walked along the carriages with trays of skewers and passed them up to passengers at the open windows; a magazine…
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1950s
A rural doctor for three years
Evangelos Koligliatis, born in Ira near Argos in 1922, served three years as rural doctor in Myloi in the 1950s, after two years in Filiates (Thesprotia). He later became a physician at the hospital of Argos.
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1950s
A birth among the sheepfolds above Kalamaki
In an interview recorded in 1988, the old midwife of Kiveri remembered a birth "above Kalamaki, up at the sheepfolds". Afterwards the husband had to walk to the road and on to Myloi to call the doctor: there were…
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7 April 1951
Census 1951: Kalamaki suddenly has 206 people
After the war and the civil war the community of Myloi has 639 inhabitants: 433 in Myloi and 206 in Kalamaki, four times as many as in 1940. The cause is not known; possibly families settled there temporarily, or the…