A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt
While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson
Иако су познати по "ватреној" прослави Божића, наши људи у Џексону баштине традицију дугу век и по. Црква Светог Саве, из 1894, прва је српска светиња у Северној Америци.
Да, већ годинама свет обиђу снимци пуцњаве са наше прославе Божића у Џексону. Медији, углавном, преносе да је реч о необичном, али традиционалном начину обележавања најрадоснијег хришћанског празника. Но, нико да "загребе" испод те вести, нико да каже и напише коју реч више о најстаријој српској цркви у Америци и о богатој историји Срба у овом калифорнијском градићу, дугој готово век и по.Овако, за "Новости", говори отац Марко Бојовић, свештеник храма Светог Саве у Џексону, светиње која је равно 124 године важан духовни, верски и културни центар Срба на америчкој Западној обали.
By Diane (Danica) Grahovac
If you’re a Serb or know one, then you know how much fun a Serbian Festival can be.
If you’re a Serb and love wine, you visit a winery for wine-tasting (and drinking). If you really love wine, chances are you venture to California Wine Country.
You could have the best of both worlds—a Serbian Festival set in California Wine Country—at Opolo Vineyards and Winery in Paso Robles.
Ćurčić was a prolific scholar whose work examined a wide spectrum of topics across southeast Europe. Among his areas of focus were late-Roman and early-Christian archaeological remains in Cyprus, Greece and Serbia; decoration of Byzantine-Norman churches in Sicily; and architecture in the Byzantine Balkans from late antiquity to the Ottoman era.
Born Dec. 19, 1940, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (the former Yugoslavia), Ćurčić grew up in Belgrade, Serbia. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and in 1975 received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, writing a dissertation on the Late Byzantine church at Gračanica.
Deacon David-John Williams of Saint Petka Serbian Orthodox Church, San Marcos California, presented dr Charalambos Dendrinos The Christian Heritage of Kosovo and Metohija: The Historical and Spiritual Heartland of the Serbian People.
Dr Dendrinos is the director of the Hellenic Institute at Royal Holloway University of London where Deacon David is a PhD candidate and the Patriarch Bartholomaios scholar.