Boulder lawyer turned author honors late father with first book

BOULDER — When your dad tells you to do something, you better do it. 

For Giovanni Ruscitti, an attorney and partner at Boulder-based law firm Berg Hill Greenleaf Ruscitti LLP, the demand from his father was to memorialize the family lore. 

The result: “Cobblestones, Conversations, and Corks: A Son’s Discovery of His Italian Heritage,” Ruscitti’s first book, an ode to his father, mother and their homeland. 

Ruscitti will speak and sign copies of the book at an event at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Boulder Books. 

Emilio Ruscitti, prior to his death in 2019, said several times to his son Giovanni, “It would be great…