The Disappearance of Frank Meisner and the Allure of the Panama Canal

For over one hundred years, Frank Meisner was missing. With only rumor of his fleeing to the Panama Canal to go on, Young Margaret, Frank’s only daughter, spent much of her life looking for him only to come up empty. Scarred by years as a foster child, after being separated from her mother and brothers, and haunted by her father’s abandonment, Young Margaret, now a very mature woman, shares her childhood memories with her eldest granddaughter, Pamela Jane. Years later, spurred by those recollections, Pamela resumes the search determined to solve the mystery once and for all. Her curiosity satisfied at having discovered his whereabouts, the author, through her own lens, tells their story described in three sorrowful journeys.