On the Trail of Victor Falkenau
Circling the mountain for clues on the island of Madeira, Portugal
Searching for facts to include in my nonfiction book about Victor Falkenau, my great grandfather, sent me zipping down a steep narrow street in Portugal toboggan style. I sat in a wicker basket affixed to steel runners, grasping onto Fabio for dear life. We descended at thirty miles an hour along pavement slick with over a hundred and sixty years of the…