Almost two centuries later, Eleni Mangeli tells the story of her great-grandfather, the owner of the first tavern in the village, and how his life changed after an unexpected dinner with a thief and a constable. A story set against the backdrop of Old Epidaurus, featuring a local Robin Hood reminiscent of an American Western.
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Narrator: Eleni Mangeli
Researchers: Students of Kryoneri High School
Podcast Creation: Christos Georgoudakis
Sound Design: Enes Ahmed Kehagiya
Sound Editing: Spyros Lymberopoulos
Istorima is the biggest 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.