[Greek Audio]
When he was a child he would slide in the snow with a plank tied with a leash, in the neighborhoods of Naoussa. Growing up, he became acquainted with skiing and his love for the sport developed into a profession. From King Constantine and the first lift in Greece, to countless hours of teaching to young and old and endless descents, 94-year-old Stavros Platitsas is considered by many to be “the father of skiing in Greece”.
Narrator: Stavros Platitsas
Researcher: Areti Zoi Katsivelaris
Podcast Creation: Charis Pagonidou
Sound Design: Dimitris Palaiogiannis
Sound Editing: Thanos Symeonidis
Istorima is the largest project for recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. More than 1,000 young researchers find narrators listen, collect and preserve stories of people from all over Greece: Stories of their hometowns, stories of love, stories that changed Greece or defined it, modern or old stories. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could easily be lost in time.
It was created by the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), as part of its initiative to Restart and Empower Youth (see more on www.snf.org). More than 20,000 stories are gradually being published in full on www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos, or written stories on www.istorima.org.