Brothers Selim and Meek Mattar immigrated to the U.S. as teenagers, about 1890. They were natives of the city of Beirut, then part of the Ottoman Empire, and today the capital of Lebanon, but the Mattar brothers always referred to their birthplace as “Syria” a term once used for all the Mediterranean lands stretching from […]
At the Carnegie Museum of Kings County, an AV room has been set up with archival footage of the Hanford 250 race of 1968, allowing patrons to see the action