Byline: Lisa Hanson Daily Herald Staff Writer Robert Ian Winstin is the oldest child of an oldest child. That means he has mother lode of stories. In an hour, a lunch companion could learn that his great- grandmother was a seamstress for the czar before the Bolshevik Revolution, that he embarrassed his grandmother by staring at her dentures and that his grandfather was married on Black Friday, the day the stock market crashed in 1929. All his stories are told with a child-like zeal, his words spilling out like coins in a slot machine. Winstin, a seasoned award-winner, conducts the Metropol...
