Richard DiDonato stands next to a portion of a wall rebuilt from bricks that his late father, Pietro Di Donato, had taken from SUNY Stony Brook when he was a builder there in the 60's, at his home in Ithaca, NY, Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. The late Pietro Di Donato was a preeminent Italian-American writer in American Fiction, whose iconic 1939 novel, Christ in Concrete, is recognized as the definitive story depicting the Italian-American Experience. Richard is on a path to resurrect his father’s legacy, building a repository of his life.
(Photo by Heather Ainsworth)