origins

Cut to the late 1800s in Frosolone, Italy.

A young boy claws his way out of the wreckage of a devastating earthquake, only to discover that his entire immediate family has been claimed by the disaster.

With nothing but the torn, tattered clothes on his back, he walked east for days toward Foggia, changing his surname for the first time as an act of survival. That path of reinvention carried him across the Atlantic, through Ellis Island, where his name was Americanized once more.

More than a century later, the original family name was rediscovered — preserved in the rubble of Frosolone — by his great-great-great grandson, who became inspired by this legacy of resilience, adventure, and reinvention.

This is Donato Palangio™.