What are we doing here?

It's about a new project Jeff Carlin and I are putting together called the Palikati Project.

What does that mean, Nick exactly?

It means like... mean like a strong warrior basically

kind of gaudy you know brave strong brave warrior right it's about my father sparrows

brave warrior right it's about my father, Spiro's Cass, came here, destroyed by the war, skinny

as a rail, lost and broken, and put together a life in America, which he always loved

to the point of, well he would fight a war if the United States asked him to,

he would fight a war against his former country Greece.

It's about his journey as a young boy in a village,

the small beautiful village of Rizis, Arcadia, in his own words.

We worked on this years ago and we thought the tapes were lost. My brother Nick and I sat down to interview

our dad in 19, when was it, 1989, right Nick? I think.

Something like that, yeah.

And we had got him to tell stories.

Our voices were different, but his voice was strong and the same.

And he told stories about hiding in the well,

in the room behind the oven in the village in the backyard hiding from the communists.

What else did he talk about?

His best friend, the communist Tikes Murlopoulos, the communist of in the Greek army after the

after the Greek troops capitulated against the Germans and how he did not want to join

the Communist Party he was with the king he was a conservative and all that happened to him in his words and we thought we'd

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