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Once upon a time, if a person learned some shocking news about their family's dysfunctionality they either repressed it or shared it with their best friend. Another generation told everything to a therapist, if they could afford one.

Today the good, bad, and ugly of our lives is instantly posted on Facebook; then the more creative among us turn it into art.

Morgan Dews is one of the latter. He may even have bypassed Facebook. For most of his life he had known his grandmother, Allis, as a widow who shared ancient home movies with him when he visited her in Vermont. The silent films showed his mother and uncles growing up in Hartford, Connecticut, in the 1950s and ‘60s. They looked like happy times-- playing outside, going to the beach, the house decorated for Christmas...

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