Georgia native Panos Constantinides thought he knew most things about his uncle Constantine Manos.
Constantinides regularly visited his uncle, who resided in Provincetown, Massachusetts. There they would fish and travel around different parts of the Northeast, while talking about “all sorts of stuff.” Manos, his nephew said, was someone who loved history and classical music and who could be “a little unpredictable.”
But Constantinides knew his uncle’s stories. He knew that Manos had traveled throughout Europe and the U.S. He knew his grandparents were Greek immigrants, who raised Manos and his two siblings in Columbia. And he knew that Manos attended the University of South Carolina in the early ‘50s…