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St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church
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Welcome!
My Dear Friends,

On behalf of the Community of St. Nicholas Greek

Orthodox Church, I welcome all of you to this wonderful Greek
Festival 2009.

The purpose of this festival is to expose our Greek

Orthodox Religion and Hellenic Culture to those who know
little about us. Our church is not only our Spiritual Center,
but our cultural and social center as well. We promote Greek
language, dance, cuisine, and other various aspects of Hellenism.
Socially, we have dances, parties, “get-togethers” and other
various family related gatherings.

Most importantly, our focus is our Greek Orthodox

Spirituality. This includes: Our growing and vibrant Sunday
School, accredited Greek School program for children and
adults, GOYA, JOY, Choir, Parish Council, our Ladies
Philoptochos Society (friends of the poor), St. Nicholas Elves,
“Young at Heart Club,” College Connectors, AHEPA and
Daughters of Penelope. As well as our outreach programs
such as Soup Kitchen, Global Relief Efforts, Orthodox
Christian Charities, Habitat for Humanity and local charitable
organizations, Hospital, Campus, Maritime, Police and Fire
Service Ministries.

Our St. Nicholas Community is one “Big Family” and this

weekend, you are part of it. So welcome home, enjoy, and this
weekend… Be Greek!
Love in Christ,

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Schedule of Events
Daily Continuous Activities Include:
• Greek Food • Greek Pastries • Agora/Shopping & more
• Continuous Music by D.J. Meleti
• Church Tours • 50/50 Raffle

Friday, July 17, 2009

Festival hours 5:00pm to 11:00pm

5:00pm Festival Opens

5:30 pm Official Opening Ceremonies Under the Main Tent
5:00pm to 8:00pm Children’s Activities
6:00pm to 11:00pm Dancing to the Live Music of Ellas

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Festival hours Noon to 11pm

2:00pm to 8:00pm Children’s Activities

6:00pm to 11:00pm Dancing to the Live Music of Ellas
7:00 pm Dance Performance by St. Nicholas Youth
under the Main Tent

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Festival hours 1:30pm to 7:00pm

1:30pm to 5:00pm Children’s Activities

2:00pm to 7:00pm Dancing to the Live Music of Ellas
3:00pm to 5:00pm Continuous Raffle Prize Drawings in Jarvis Center
7:00pm Festival Closes

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Activity Descriptions
Agora/Cultural Tables
This is your chance to shop for a wonderful array of authentic Greek items and gifts.
Located inside the church hall.

Bakalico
Step into our very own Greek Food Store. Find a full selection of great food items to
choose from, straight from Greece. Lots of Greek gift items as well. Located inside
the church hall. Thank you St. Nicholas Sunday School for sponsoring the Bakalico.

Lots of Great Food !

The aroma of pork souvlaki, chicken souvlaki, lamb shanks and gyro on the out-
side grills lofts into the air as you enter the festival grounds. Pastichio, moussaka,
spanakopita, dolmathakia, rice pilaf and Greek fries are also cooked to perfection.
Indulge yourself in the tastes of Greece. See the Dinner Menu included in this booklet.

Homemade Greek Pastries

Top off a great meal with a serving of homemade Greek pastries. Or take some
home to enjoy with family or friends. Selections being served this weekend include:
Amygdalota, Baklava, Galaktobouriko, Kataifi, Koulourakia, Kourambiethes,
Loukoumathes, Mil-Feig. See the Pastries Menu included in this booklet.

Children’s Activities
Enjoy lots of different Arts & Crafts tables and games. You can make some great
things to take home and there are lots of great games too! Located just to the left of
the first big tent as you enter the festival

Dance, Dance, Dance

The dance floor is open all the time. So when D.J. Meleti is spinning CD’s or Ellas
is playing live music, don’t hesitate to jump right in and join the fun. If you have
never danced “Greek” before, just grab the hand of the last person in the dance line
and give it a try. We love to teach everyone how to dance Greek. It is fun and easy.
See you on the dance floor!

Dance Performance by Saint

Nicholas Youth Dancers
Our children learn the traditional dances of Greece as part of their Greek School
experience, as well as in the home. They will be performing at 7:00pm on Saturday.

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Menu
Souvlaki Dinner.................................................................................. $ 11.00
Two skewers of charbroiled specially marinated pork kabob served with
rice pilaf, Greek salad and a roll.
Chicken Souvlaki Dinner..................................................................... $ 11.00
Two skewers of charbroiled marinated chicken kabob served with rice pilaf,
Greek salad and a roll.
Baked Lamb Shank Dinner................................................................. $ 13.00
Delicious baked lamb shank in a tomato based sauce served with rice
pilaf, Greek salad and a roll.
Pastichio Dinner.................................................................................. $ 10.00
Layers of baked macaroni, imported cheeses and seasoned beef topped with
béchamel (crème) sauce. Served with a Greek salad and a roll.
Moussaka Dinner................................................................................ $ 10.00
Layers of baked eggplant, potatoes, ground beef, imported cheeses and
special spices topped with a béchamel (crème) sauce. Served with a Greek
salad and a roll.
Spanakopita Dinner............................................................................ $ 10.00
Layers of crisp filo dough filled with spinach and cheese. Served with a
Greek salad and a roll.
Gyro Combo........................................................................................ $ 8.00
Delicious seasoned strips of grilled lamb and beef served in a warm pita
bread with sliced tomatoes, onions and tzaziki (cucumber yogurt) sauce.
Served with specially seasoned Greek Fries.

Ala-Cart
Gyro Sandwich......................................... $ 6.00
Pastichio................................................... $ 6.00
Moussaka................................................. $ 6.00
Souvlaki (1 skewer).................................. $ 3.50
Spanakopita............................................. $ 5.00
Greek Fries............................................... $ 3.00
Rice Pilaf.................................................. $ 2.00
Dolmathakia (6 stuffed grape leaves)....... $ 3.00
Greek Salad.............................................. $ 6.00
Topped with a skewer of souvlaki......... $ 9.00

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Homemade Greek Pastries
Baklava................................................................................................. $ 1.50
Layers of filo and a sweet walnut mixture glazed in a honey-based syrup.

Finikia.................................................................................................. $ .75
Greek cinnamon spice cookie drenched in a honey syrup and sprinkled with
chopped walnuts and cinnamon.

Galaktobouriko.................................................................................... $ 2.75
Greek custard filled filo glazed in a honey-based syrup.

Amygdalota.......................................................................................... $ .75
Almond Macaroons.

Kataifi.................................................................................................. $ 2.50
Finely shredded filo pastry filled with a chopped walnut filling and
drenched in Greek honey syrup.

Koulourakia.........................................................................$ .50ea or $ 5.00/doz

Sesame covered butter cookie twists

Kourambiethes (Greek Wedding Cookie) ............................................. $ .50

Delicate butter cookies containing finely
chopped almonds and smothered with
powdered sugar.

Loukoumathes...................................................................................... $ 3.00 plate

Light deep fried dough balls drizzled
with warm honey syrup.

Mil-Feig................................................................................................ $ 2.75
Layered filo with a cream filling and topped with fluffy cream & almonds.

Pastry Sampler...................................................................................... $10.00

A delicious sampling of a few of our most popular pastries. (2 pieces each
of kourambiethes, koulourakia, baklava, kataifi and amygdalota.)

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Koulourakia - Greek Butter Cookies
1/2 lb. butter
4 eggs
1/2 cup orange juice
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 1/2 cups sugar
6 cups flour
Sesame seeds
1 beaten egg mixed with 1 Tbsp. milk
1 Tbsp. anise flavor

Cream butter, add sugar gradually. Add one egg at a time,

alternately with orange juice. Add flour, which has been sifted
3 times with baking powder and baking soda, gradually. This
makes a soft dough. Add anise.

Shape into desired forms, and place on buttered pans or

cookie sheet. Brush with beaten egg-milk mixture, and sprin-
kle with sesame seeds.

Bake 15 to 20 minutes in 400° oven.

Recipe courtesy of Bess Jack

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Thank You !
The 2009 Greek Festival Committee wishes to thank everyone
who worked so hard to make this year’s festival a success.
Your continued dedication to St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church
is a shining light of your faith.
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The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church parish thanks everyone
from near and far who have attended and supported the 2009 Greek Festival.
By breaking bread and dancing to our heritage,
you have all become members of our big fat Greek family!
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All of us who have volunteered on this year’s festival extend a special and
heartfelt thanks to Father Angelo and Presvytera Mary Pappas for their guidance
and dedication to the parish and all our festival efforts.
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Special thanks also goes to those businesses who
generously donated goods and services:
At press time:
Brothers North for donating Olives and pastries
Cafe Nostimo for menu planning
Central Paper Supply of Manchester
Favorite Foods for refrigerator truck and freezer warehousing
Gepetto’s Pizzeria in Newmarket for donating all the kataifi
Jumping Jack’s Java for menu planning
Pepsi Cola Bottlers of Manchester, NH for Festival refrigerators and signs
Town House of Pizza Restaurant and Matoula Miminas for donating moussaka
St. Nicholas Philoptochos Society and it’s members
for baking thousands of pastries.
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2009 Festival Committee:
Co-Chairs: Vassili Pamboukes and Fotis Zotos
Aris Damianos, Fran Damianos, Greg Filias, Valerie Filias, Julie Giotas, John Jack,
Mike Leggett, Nancy Notis, Meletios Pouliopoulos, John Samonas, Fred Weston

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A brief history of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church

The founding fathers of the Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church

of Portsmouth arrived in this country at an early age with tremendous
hopes and dreams. Peter Zacharias was the first immigrant to settle
in Portsmouth in 1893. Years later he brought his nephews George,
John and Basil Paras and Ernest Zacharias to Portsmouth. The Pappas
brothers, at ten and twelve, traveled across seas and oceans to meet their
older brother here.

These early settlers were homesick and missed celebrating liturgy in their
own church and in their native language. Eventually the men gathered
enough money to bring in a priest to Portsmouth to celebrate liturgy
on Feast Days. The services were held in Freemann’s Hall on the top
floor of the Franklin Block on Congress Street. By 1910, the Greek
community had grown and the men arranged to celebrate liturgy Feast
Day services on Madison Street at the Christ Episcopal Church when it
was not in use.

Eventually the Greek Orthodox faithful wanted their own spiritual house
where they could baptize their children, marry, and celebrate liturgy
without inconvenience. A group of men, now known as the Godfathers
of Saint Nicholas endeavored to establish a church of their own. In 1933
a committee, consisting of Andrew Jarvis, George Soteros, Chris Sagris,
George Scliris, Chris Roylos, Paul Chuliaris and Peter Stavrou submitted
a bid ($1,000) to purchase the vacant Cabot Street School. Through
fundraising and tremendous effort, the parishioners were able to
convert the school into the first Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church
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of Portsmouth. In 1934 the church was consecrated by Archbishop

Athenagoras. At that time the Parish Council President was Andrew
Jarvis. The first priest was Father Thalasitis who also started the church’s
first choir. For 36 years the Cabot Street Church nurtured the spiritual
and community needs of the Greeks in Portsmouth.

The Saint Nicholas community grew and grew and in the late 1960’s it
was decided it was time for a new building. The Parish Council, headed
by William (Bill) Genimatas, purchased the land of the current facility
after a successful fundraiser at Pine Grove Pavilion. The Church was
completed in 1971. A procession comprised of the priest, choir, altar
boys and parishioners proudly walked from Cabot Street to the new
church on Alumni Drive, which now is Andrew Jarvis Drive.

Under the Spiritual Guidance of Father Angelo Pappas, who arrived

with his family in 1992, great strides were made in reaching out to the
community and becoming a stronger influence in the Greater Seacoast
area. “Religious Faith has been and continues to be the strength of America and
the values of the American way of life. Faith has sustained our nation in a living
tradition. Without the establishment of strong and durable institutions such as
the church, this tradition cannot exist.” - Father Angelo Pappas

In late 1996, St. Nicholas expanded further and Bishop Methodios (now
Metropolitan) conducted the door opening ceremony for the new Jarvis
Center Hall attached to the Church. Since the opening, the hall has
hosted countless social, educational, and Seacoast fundraising events as
well as Greek Festivals and many St. Nicholas functions.

2006 marked St. Nicholas’ 75th Anniversary. We thank the founding

fathers and mothers of Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, who as
stewards gave so generously of themselves to make all of this possible. We
also thank our present stewards as well who work so hard towards the
advancement of our faith and paving the way forward for generations to
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Thank you Efharisto
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Excuse me Signomi
Welcome Kalos orises
Hello Yasou
Goodbye Andio sas
So long Ya hara
Good morning Kalimera
Good evening Kalispera
Good night Kalinihta
What is your name? Pos se lene?
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