Last week we got a phone call in the office from some guy with a story. We get these a decent amount, some turn out to be more fruitful than others. This one was more than fruitful. The call was from Michael Ussak, and he had a story he wanted to tell, and I really
Ussak (Center) with his daughter and Jose’s son. When Michael Ussak was a teenager, living in the Arverne Projects on Beach 54th Street, an interest in oceanography gave him an idea to throw several dozen wine bottles with messages enclosed into the Atlantic near his home. He never expected to hear back. “It was a