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What happens when curiosity turns into responsibility—and saving stories becomes the work?

In this moving episode, Stephanie Detton, a 4th-grade teacher in Colorado and co-host of Italian American Stories Podcast reflects on growing up Italian American in the West. But this conversation cracks opens something much larger: how family history lives in newspapers, memory, silence—and what’s at stake when no one pays attention.

Stephanie talks about losing her grandfather, discovering genealogy, and realizing that forgotten lives don’t resurface on their own. Together with her mother Sandy, she finds Italian American stories that demand to be told—tender, difficult, and often overlooked. Crime, courage, scandal, migration, survival. Nothing sanitized. Nothing erased.

This episode is about storytelling, and responsibility- about history not as a textbook, but as real people living real lives. And about the power of recording what came before us- before it disappears.

If you’ve ever wondered where you come from—or what might be lost if no one asks—this conversation is for you.

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