The pointy edge of the speargun [Greek audio]

A spearfisher has only just emerged from the sea, with a large fish in his arms, when he hears a clacking sound and sees his spear sticking out of his chest; an unusually cheery recollection of an accident, still traveling by wordof mouth among the fishermen of Schinoussa island.

Interviewee: Nikolas Kouvaras Field Research: Efthymia Papagiannopoulou Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos Sound Recording: Iasonas Theophanou Sound Editing: Thanos Zampoukas Photos: Giorgos Athanasiou

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