ABSTRACT
Professor Quesay was very pleased with his research on a recently discovered community. One family had invited him to a special dinner in honour of the community’s oldest member’s seventieth birthday – and as that was a mark of great respect he said he would be honoured to go. Grandfather Alloi, together with his slightly younger wife, Grandma Alloi, had been his main oral history source for many fascinating accounts of their traditions. These people were descendants of an ancient Greek society who had left their homes in Mesopotamia to set themselves up on a remote peninsula in the Americas. The venerable – but still very sprightly – old man had seemed particularly keen to tell someone all he knew.
