What happens when a combat veteran, space operations specialist, and math teacher picks up a pen — and uncovers an ancestor who lost everything at 22, yet was remembered as one of the most dignified women of her era?

Joseph Bolton spent years chasing a mystery hidden behind his French-Canadian, Native American, Spanish, English, and Irish roots. What he found in the archives of 17th-century Quebec stopped him in his tracks — and ignited a book series that readers of all ages can't put down.

In this episode, Joseph shares how a real Algonquin woman named Mirimete Ouagwe — whose story was nearly lost to history — became the beating heart of his Old Grandmother's Tree series. Told in the language of folktales, woven with trickster animals and a little magic, these stories carry truths about family, resilience, and legacy that fe ...