Linda Carroll Trotter grew up in San Antonio, Texas, with American parents who adored her. She always knew that she was adopted in 1958 from Greece and had been told that her mother had died in childbirth. In 2017, her quest to find out more about her roots leads her to a village in Nafpaktia, Stranoma. There, she is surprised to find that the whole village knows her story. Which is, however, very different from what she thought until then.
Narrator: Linda Carroll Trotter Interview: Sophia Papaioannou Podcast Creation: Charis Pagonidou Sound Design: Dimitris Patsaros Sound Editing: Dimitris Papadakis Photography: Alexandros Papathanasopoulos Translation: Harris Pagoniou Voiceover: Maria Kallimani
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.