Luther Eskijian, founder of the Ararat-Eskijian Museum and my grandmother’s cousin, had a focused, intense character. Only later in life did I learn that his father, Rev. Hovhanness Eskijian, had been just as driven, serving as a pastor in Aleppo during the Genocide, bravely directing an underground network rescuing Armenians destined for Der Zor, and dying of illness and exhaustion the day before authorities had planned to execute him.
A New Book for the Glendale Public Library
Tapping into U.S. reserves of shale gas is criticized as environmentally risky, even though it offers potential for boosting U.S. energy production, creating jobs, and emitting fewer greenhouse gases than other hydrocarbon fuels.
Community Journalism, Online: Changes, Challenges, Opportunities
Zanku Armenian and I connected via Facebook more than a year before we met. I “liked” his Think Again page, which features his monthly column in the Glendale News-Press.
New Beginnings
EDITOR’S NOTE: Asbarez welcomes Elise Kalfayan and Catherine Yesayan as authors of a new column called “Community Links.” We welcome their perspective, insight and views to our pages and our Web site. BY ELISE KALFAYAN Catherine Yesayan and I had met before, but only briefly at large gatherings. We finally got the…