91-year-old American granny revives ghost village, brings lost paradise back to life

Kirsten Dirksen

When Rebecca left her mountain village on the Mani (one of the three peninsulas in Greece's southern Peloponnese) in 1951, she was a teenager escaping postwar poverty and a struggling local economy for a new life in America. Now 91, she spends half the year back in the old family café, transformed