Stories That Live In Us

New York: A Melting Pot of Resilience (with Scott Pratt) | Episode 108

April 23, 2026·36 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

What would you do if a single letter revealed that everything you thought you knew about your family was only half the story? Scott Pratt walked into a historic Brooklyn church as part of Ancestry's powerful documentary Railroad Ties expecting to find some connection to his Scottish colonial roots. Instead he discovered that he's a descendant of enslaved people who escaped to freedom on the Underground Railroad. In this deeply moving conversation, Scott and I trace the extraordinary arc of hi...

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