What if the only evidence of someone’s life was a set of engraved silver spoons?
In this episode, Lisa Maguire shares the hauntingly beautiful story of her great uncle Hugh — a man long forgotten by family memory, with no surviving photographs, no stories passed down… and yet, a quiet legacy that lived on in the form of his craft.
Hugh was an engraver — a maker of delicate, precise, beautiful things. And through the silver spoons he left behind, Lisa was able to trace the faint outlines of his life and rediscover a part of her family’s history that had been locked away for decades.
This conversation explores:
The mystery of forgotten ancestors
The emotional power of physical objects
How the smallest details can hold the biggest stories
What it means to leave a mark, even when no one is watching
How curiosity and research can lead us to unexpected beauty in our own family trees
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