The photo is in a park and there are around 50 people in the photo and out to the side it states Greek-American Progressive Association Picnic 1933 I was 27 when I came here,January 3,1907. I came with my countrymen,10 men - all came here and started working right here. I forgot the names of these fellows-you know, a long time ago and everybody has died. We came from Instabul ,from the old country. Same village. Before coming to B'ham I worked on a farm,a grape farme where we made wine. My father died. My mama and six children left,with me the oldest. I went to work as a twelve year old boy-I never went to school. Just worked on the farm. I met my wife here. She died in 1942,Nov 28th. She was from the old country-I knew her in Greece. Her father came here with his children,3 daughters and 3 boys. After all his children were married he went back to Greece,his wife was still there- never saw her children again. He died right after he got back. You don't got so much money in the old country so we came to the United States. You got money in the United States,plenty of money,I came for the money I went to the office on 19th Street for a job. It was a big office with a foreman. I was a Greek,a white man and there were only Negroes there. I got work. There was no light to work by so we burned wood. Got no lights,used fire for 10,15 years. Stayed on that job,one job for fifty three years,painting smoke stacks. I retired twenty years ago,about 1960 when I was 80 years old. I worked hard,painted steel stacks,chimneys,way up high. I lost part of my hand in the plant in 1941. A crane in the blast furnace crossed my hand,cut it off right here. After six months I went back to work an easier job The company the big boss liked me. They knew me because I worked there all my life. They sent me a birthday card with one hundred years old on it. I'm a Greek,a Greek all my life. Everybody that is Greek,there is just one church,the Orthodox church,with all Greeks. No church in Birmingham at first,or school. Church was in a little house,everybody worked and we made a church. If we made a church ,we could make a school. A priest came from the old country and taught children in different homes and later rented a house to use as school.I don't read or write,too busy working,but kids now go to school all their lives Constantine Nicholas Sfakianos Ensley May1 1928 The first regular delivery of mail by air into B'ham begins May 11th 1963 Dynamite explosions damage the home of the Rev. A. D. King and the Gaston Motel,headquarters for the Civil Rights Movement May12 1906 The ACIPCO plant in No Bham casts its first pipe May22nd 1932 Joe Contri is the leading pitcher in the local Italian baseball league with 6 wins no losses May23rd 1930 A meeting of 150 unemployed,discontented local workers is called" a mass protest meeting of Communists" by a local newspaper May29th 1954 The largest gathering in the history of Ensley witnesses the dedication of the 2,000,000 overpass to the west of the community