In the late 1980s, while still a student in Paris, Mantalena accidentally ended up in Amorgos for a vacation. There she experienced a great love and traveled the Aegean with the boat “Aldebaran”. Adventures, quests, decisions, and a love story that endured over time, like the rocks
Interviewee: Mantalena Kirkiasarian
Interview by: Athina Stambouli
Podcast creator: Charis Pagonidou
Sound Designer: Dimitris Patsaros
Sound Editor: Spyros Lymperopoulos
Translator: Eva Kesserling
Voiceover: Eva Kesserling
Istorima is the bigest project of recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. Over 1,000 young researchers find narrators, listen, collect and save stories of people from all over Greece : Stories of their place, stories of love, stories that changed us or defined us, stories modern or old. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could be lost in time. Istorima is the co-creation of the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding donation from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) as part of his Youth Reboot and Empowerment initiative (learn more at www.snf.org). The more than 20,000 stories are being published in their entirety in stages at www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos or written stories at www.istorima.org