Linda Carol Trotter grew up in San Antonio, Texas, adopted by loving American parents. She had always known she was adopted from Greece; she was told she was born premature, and that her birth mother had died during delivery. In 2017, her quest to find more about her roots led her to a remote village called Stranoma. As it turned out, the entire village knew about her existence and there, she met someone that needed closure as well.
Interviewee: Linda Carol Trotter
Interview by: Sofia Papaioannou
Producer: Charis Pagonidou
Sound Designer: Dimitris Patsaros
Sound Editor: Spyros Lymperopoulos
Photos: Linda Carol Trotter
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.