FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : Unbelievable True Stories

When we look over someone else’s life, we are amazed, we are awed, we are emotionally bedazzled at the ordeals they survived and even thrived through. Their life was normal…for them. As your crazy adventures in life will be for you. Part of your ability to be emotionally bedazzled by the life of another is the capacity to FEEL them as they might have experienced their circumstances. They want their lives to be learned from and appreciated for whatever value you can extract of it. Please don’t let the lives of your ancestors be only a name on a family tree or a blip on the radar that fades with each generational reset. I’m gonna tell you a little secret…there is a profound superpower to be had in making the “Dia de los Muertos” an everyday occasion. Read your ancestor stories, share them with your children. Remember them. Feel them. Learn from them. Because History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Host

Travis Heaton

Travis is passionate about “true stories well told”. Whether it is personal history, family history, or spotlighting the “black sheep” of the family, his storytelling is felt from riveting dramatized recreations of recorded family tales rather than through straight facts and recordings.
Travis was mesmerized in his early years by the AM radio drama, “Mystery Theatre”, and the eloquent storytelling style of Paul Harvey. His admiration for the sennachie (a storyteller of family genealogy, history, and legend) was formed by countless nights of lavish tall tales told around a campfire. Those stories were romanticized by the crackling cedar logs with its wispy smoke trails and glowing sparks spiraling up into the dark Arizona skies. Millions of twinkling stars would dance to the rhythm of chirping crickets and yapping coyotes as they serenaded the darkness.

Travis does not judge the yesterdays of history by today’s standards. To him, “presentism” is never acceptable.