Volume VI, Issue 1

The early membership records of the Society Farsarotul provide us with a great deal of information, including place of birth, parents’ names, and year of membership. I have combed through these early records at length; for me, one of the most interesting things about them is also one of the most obvious: the given names …

We welcome with great pleasure the following new members: Spiro Macris of Wilmington, North Carolina, and Ian Price of Los Angeles, California. We are very pleased to announce the awarding of the first Society Farsarotul Grant of $1,000. to Dr. Spiro Shituni, Chairman of the Department of Ethnomusicology at the University of Tirana. Dr. Shituni …

Among our community’s several blessings is George Moran, who — aside from being one of the nicest persons I know — is arguably the most knowledgeable person in the world on the subject of the Vlach villages of Greece. For years, I have been trying to persuade George to sit down and share some of …

Dear Members and Friends of the Society Farsarotul: I wanted to take this opportunity to announce to one and all an exciting new initiative we are undertaking here at the Society Farsarotul: our Overseas Task Force. Immigrant communities such as ours are most alive when they maintain contact with their homelands — in our case, …

Seventy-eight years after the publication of Wace & Thompson’s Nomads of the Balkans, the Vlachs and their villages have suddenly inspired cultural interest and academic inquiry. Indeed, we owe a debt of gratitude to those two British scholars who, to our good fortune, left an archaeological dig in Thessaly to study our people. As one who …