"A genealogy search can yield many things and go down many paths, but at its
core, it is a story waiting to be told and a person to tell it." Ten years ago,
artist Pat Benincasa, received a unique mission, one that arrived in the form of
a charred book of Italian love poems. It had belonged to her grandfather. "What
was he doing with this book and why was it burned?"
What follows is the story of Pat's quest.
