Introducing Family Lore

Lloyd Lockridge· Host0:00

You know those stories that just live in your brain rent-free? Like family legends, historical facts, the kind of thing everybody swears is true because we've heard it all a million times. And then one day, someone starts asking questions, and suddenly the story gets a little wobbly. That's the idea behind the new podcast, Family Lore. It's a podcast that takes those big inherited narratives and pulls them apart. Not to dismantle them just for the sake of it, but to better understand the whole making of story. Coming up, we've got a preview of the Family Lore episode titled If Mosquito Hawks Can Fly. It follows one family's story claiming that their grandfather took flight before the Wright brothers. Take a listen. [gentle music] You might remember back in 1999, the United States Mint started producing specialty quarters. On the back of each quarter, instead of an eagle spreading its wings and looking off to the side, you'd see a unique design representing any given state. For example, on the back of the Massachusetts quarter, you'd have a minuteman. The Virginia quarter featured ships arriving at Jamestown in 1607. And on the back of the North Carolina quarter, you had a man lying prostrate on a primitive airplane with another man watching from below. This, of course, was a depiction of the Wright brothers and their inaugural flight at the small beach town of Kitty Hawk. At the top of the coin