Al Scaia says that he was not interested in history when he was young, but that changed sometime after he received a present from his mother and father.

"I did not like history in school, but my parents gave me a 16 mm movie camera. Something must have happened to me. When I went to college at St Michael's, I started shooting footage every year that I was there. And then (after he graduated) I shot film for every reunion that I went to."

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