When I was a little girl, I would walk through the cemetery with my grandmother as she tended my grandfather’s grave. While she worked, I wandered among the headstones, wondering about the lives and stories of the people resting there. Those quiet visits sparked a lifelong curiosity about the past and a deep desire to preserve the voices of those who came before us. That early wonder grew into my passion for oral history – listening, recording and sharing stories so they will never be forgotten.