By Brian Chasnoff
Pastor Ron Brown uses a drinking fountain to baptize Sean Masciana, aka Rocky Runningbear. Photo by Bob Owen.
November 2010
To the drifters who idle daily in Travis Park, he is Rocky Runningbear, a homeless man who plants himself on the same bench every day and spouts science fiction, often exploding in unthreatening anger at imagined threats and government plots.
To the father who has spent years searching movie theaters and promenades in Santa Monica, he’s Sean Masciana, a troubled schizophrenic who disappeared in August 2008 from the sailboat he shared with his dad in a marina on the Pacific Coast.
Shocked that Sean, 45, had surfaced in the Alamo City, Pepi Masciana flew Tuesday from Los Angeles to approach his son in the park and persuade him to return home.
