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Truly Poor

211 min read

Ela, come in, says Evangelia as I drive into the campsite. Their chained pit bull, spying my dog jumps atop a car wreck in the yard and bounds crazily up and down like a carousel horse. No matter. We sit down to a glass of cold water—it’s too hot
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by Beatrice Hamblett

Hedge Hog on the Grill

275 min read

It’s early evening at the Roma camp. A bonfire is blazing in the clearing of the olive grove and half a dozen young men gathered around it. The regulars lounge in plastic lawn chairs—Evangelia, her husband, Dimitri, the sisters, Taxiakoula and
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by Beatrice Hamblett

Maria Moon

188 min read

A new group of Mitsos’s extended family are visiting at the small sheds with canvas sides in the olive grove. A blond voluptuous woman who resembles Taxiakoula’s mama (probably a cousin), is there with her two daughters and son. Maria, her eldest,
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by Beatrice Hamblett

What Is Home

311 min read

I am looking at the photos I’ve made inside the small shacks in Skopelos where the Roma girls spent hot summer afternoons, lolling about on a big mattress laughing and talking. Photos inside the basement rooms where Mitsos and Konstandina’s family
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by Beatrice Hamblett

Living Beneath the Car Repair Shop

309 min read

I’m welcomed cordially into the basement home beneath the car repair shop of Mitsos and family. It sits just across the dirt road from the shanty homes of Evangelia and Marinos. The girls, Eletheria and Kris set up a table, chairs, “Ela, Vera.
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Mr. Hollywood

106 min read

I call him Mr. Hollywood. He is the handsome gypsy, a cousin of Mitsos’s, who dresses like a model with clean pressed shirts, stylish pegged pants and a gold cross at his throat. He is breathtakingly handsome with ice blue eyes and olive skin, hair
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by Beatrice Hamblett

Truly Poor

211 min read

Ela, come in, says Evangelia as I drive into the campsite. Their chained pit bull, spying my dog jumps atop a car wreck in the yard and bounds crazily up and down like a carousel horse. No matter. We sit down to a glass of cold water—it’s too hot

Read More
by Beatrice Hamblett

Hedge Hog on the Grill

275 min read

It’s early evening at the Roma camp. A bonfire is blazing in the clearing of the olive grove and half a dozen young men gathered around it. The regulars lounge in plastic lawn chairs—Evangelia, her husband, Dimitri, the sisters, Taxiakoula and

Read More
by Beatrice Hamblett

Maria Moon

188 min read

A new group of Mitsos’s extended family are visiting at the small sheds with canvas sides in the olive grove. A blond voluptuous woman who resembles Taxiakoula’s mama (probably a cousin), is there with her two daughters and son. Maria, her eldest,

Read More
by Beatrice Hamblett

What Is Home

311 min read

I am looking at the photos I’ve made inside the small shacks in Skopelos where the Roma girls spent hot summer afternoons, lolling about on a big mattress laughing and talking. Photos inside the basement rooms where Mitsos and Konstandina’s family

Read More
by Beatrice Hamblett

Mr. Hollywood

106 min read

I call him Mr. Hollywood. He is the handsome gypsy, a cousin of Mitsos’s, who dresses like a model with clean pressed shirts, stylish pegged pants and a gold cross at his throat. He is breathtakingly handsome with ice blue eyes and olive skin, hair

Read More
by Beatrice Hamblett

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Truly Poor

211 min read

Ela, come in, says Evangelia as I drive into the campsite. Their chained pit bull, spying my dog jumps atop a car wreck in the yard and bounds crazily up and down like a carousel horse. No matter. We sit down to a glass of cold water—it’s too hot

Read More
by Beatrice Hamblett

Hedge Hog on the Grill

275 min read

It’s early evening at the Roma camp. A bonfire is blazing in the clearing of the olive grove and half a dozen young men gathered around it. The regulars lounge in plastic lawn chairs—Evangelia, her husband, Dimitri, the sisters, Taxiakoula and

Read More
by Beatrice Hamblett

Maria Moon

188 min read

A new group of Mitsos’s extended family are visiting at the small sheds with canvas sides in the olive grove. A blond voluptuous woman who resembles Taxiakoula’s mama (probably a cousin), is there with her two daughters and son. Maria, her eldest,

Read More
by Beatrice Hamblett

What Is Home

311 min read

I am looking at the photos I’ve made inside the small shacks in Skopelos where the Roma girls spent hot summer afternoons, lolling about on a big mattress laughing and talking. Photos inside the basement rooms where Mitsos and Konstandina’s family

Read More
by Beatrice Hamblett

Mr. Hollywood

106 min read

I call him Mr. Hollywood. He is the handsome gypsy, a cousin of Mitsos’s, who dresses like a model with clean pressed shirts, stylish pegged pants and a gold cross at his throat. He is breathtakingly handsome with ice blue eyes and olive skin, hair

Read More
by Beatrice Hamblett

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