The Lost American Part 2: A Lonely Mountain

The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast · Apr 17, 2022 · 41m

The distance between Portland, Oregon and Tralee, Co Kerry, is approximately 4,600 miles, as the crow flies. But Thomas Stofiel rarely travelled in straight lines.In Episode two of our two-part documentary series, we find the former American Army Reservist in Tralee, residing as an asylum seeker in Atlas House. We hear from his best friend, those who knew him and liked him, a new brotherhood who accepted this mysterious American, even as he still remained a man apart.Thomas's wanderings were not quite at an end - the draw of the mountains was still too strong. He was a man prone to going…