David McDonald is a longtime journalist and music business publicist who moved into filmmaking in 2006, with the release of his first-ever, feature-length documentary "Woodstock Revisited." That film, which explores the rise of the American counterculture and includes sections on Bob Dylan, The Band, and The Woodstock Soundouts, has appeared in about 50 film festivals worldwide and has an international cult following. In the intervening years, McDonald created short-form video content, often with a historical context, for clients such as The NY Times, Time Magazine, CNN, Upworthy and Mashable. His most recent project, prior to the pandemic, was a play called "Ella The Ungovernable," about 15 year-old Ella Fitzgerald's incarceration and eventual escape from The NY Training School For Girls in Hudson, NY, in 1933. That play debuted at The Valatie Community Theater in March of 2020, literally weeks before the onset of the pandemic, and is next slated for a month-long Off Broadway run at Greenwich Village's Theater For The New City. During our forced downtime during the pandemic, McDonald spent a lot of time walking back country roads in Upstate, New York. It was on one of these roads that he encountered Joe Zelli's gravestone. What follows is a whimsical dive into the forgotten rabbit hole of history.