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Nicholas Gatzoyiannis is born in the village of Lia in Epirus, Greece.
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Nicholas Gage first ccame to America with three of his sister aboard a ship to meet the father they had never known. His mother is executed in the Greek civil war
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Gage and his family move to Geendale Avenue
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Gage and his sister, Fotini, first attended class at the Greendale School where they were both placed in a classroom for mentally retarded and learning-disabled students because there were no public school instructors trained to teach English as a foreign language
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Gage's sister Glykeria ,who had been captured and nobody knew where she was, reunites with family in America
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Gage gets moved into Ms. Hurds class