Guestbook / Prongi

Paul Coroneos - Garland, Texas

Congratulations on your site. I look forward to using it to keep current on my Father's island. He left there so many years ago and was never forunate to return. I however have visited and will do so again and more often. Our family is of the "Arapianous". we go back to a Ioannis and Nikos Koronaios who were reputed to have arrived from Koroni on an Arab slave ship. Their father must have been named Minas but no last name survived. Thus the "Arapo-Koronaious" paratsoukli. we still have relatives in and around Prongi. Nikos Koronaios left an settled in Molaous where that branch of the family prospered and some eventually immigrated to Chicago, Illinois. Years later my Grandfather, Polychronis asked the Molaous branch of the family to help send his oldest son, Panagiotis, to America. They agreed and my Father went to Chcago as a member of that family. My Father married a young lady from the Mani-Athina Mantakou. Because of her love of Greece and her loyalty to her husband, who died at an early age-52, we now have a vacation home in Ag. Dimitri, Messinia and are able to visit the lovely Island at our leisure. thanks to our wonderful nephew, Spiros Ramadanis, we are becoming more and more involved in the affairs of the island and enjoying it.
This site is a joy because it gives one the chance to explore the many facets of the Island throught the contributions of so many so effortlessly.