Two Grand Armenian Ladies of New Mexico Pass Away

None will deny that when a person dies, many of the links between that person and the past are severed. But links can and often do survive thanks to family, friends and scholars, but they are ‘really’ valuable to posterity only to the extent that someone can perpetuate them with a high level of fidelity. Obviously, the more precise the connections that can be sustained the better. It is the task of historians, of course, to reconstruct and interpret the past....

July 20, 2007 · Abraham D. Krikorian, Eugene L. Taylor

Mary C. Masterson, Daughter of Harput Consul William W Masterson, 92

Mary C. Masterson, Daughter of Harput Consul William W. Masterson, Dead at Age 92 Special to Groong by Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK Many readers will be familiar with U.S. Consul Leslie A. Davis who served in Harput (actually Mezereh) from 1914-1917. The slim volume “The Slaughterhouse Province, An American diplomat’s report on the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917” (Susan K. Blair ed., Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher, New Rochelle, NY, 1989) has now assumed a special place in genocide literature as a classic....

June 11, 2007 · Abraham D. Krikorian, Eugene L. Taylor