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Armenian Fest Breaks Records
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MILWAUKEE ARMENIAN FEST BREAKS RECORDS

Attendance and attention grew steadily over the years with many returning customers (many wanting to reconnect with their roots) and always new faces as Milwaukee Armenian Fest found new marketing tools through social media as well as legacy media. Food was always and remains central to the festival, with an affordable menu of shish kebob dinners, lahmajouns, boregs, hummus, paklava, kadiyif and more. But in the ‘90s the role of the festival as a one-day embassy of all things Armenian became important. The number of people gathered at this year’s Milwaukee Armenian Fest (July 16) had already grown large at the advertised opening time. By 11 a.m., festivalgoers were already lined up from inside the church hall and out the door, waiting deep ..

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Forty Martyrs of Sebastia
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FORTY MARTYRS OF SEBASTIA

On Saturday before Sunday of the Judge the Armenian Church commemorates the Forty Martyrs of Sebastia. Although the backgrounds and identities of the forty young soldiers are not certain, it is believed they came from Lesser Armenia and served in the Roman army.

WRITINGS OF BISHOP MESROP PARSAMYAN
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ONE STEP AT A TIME

When Jacob was running from his brother Esau, tired and alone, he laid his head on a rock and had a dream. In that dream, he saw a ladder reaching all the way to heaven, with angels ascending and descending upon it (Genesis 28:10–12). That vision was God’s way of showing Jacob—and us—that heaven and earth are connected, that there is a path between our struggles here and God’s glory above.

I love the image of the ladder because what matters is not your position on it, but the direction you’re going. Whether you’re just stepping on or have been climbing for years, the most important thing is that you keep moving upward.

This Week in Armenian History
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BIRTH OF VAHE VAHIAN

Vahe Vahian, born Sarkis Abdalian on December 22, 1908, in Gürün, Sepastia, was a remarkable Lebanese Armenian poet, educator, and intellectual who dedicated his life to the preservation and development of Armenian culture. His early years were marked by the horrors of the Armenian Genocide, during which he lost his father and two brothers but survived alongside his mother and sisters. After fleeing to Aintab and later Aleppo, Vahian pursued his education in various schools before earning a degree in Structural Engineering from the American University of Beirut in 1930. His passion for writing flourished during these years, and he adopted the pen name Vahe Vahian, under which he became a celebrated poet and literary figure…

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