A personal introduction to Evelyn Marie Newton I write this as someone tracing family threads and filling spaces…

Family: Father Hal Linden I grew up thinking families are like small constellations, each star drawing light from…

Katherine Omdahl Early thread of the family fabric Brynn Hartman I’ve always liked stories about ordinary people saving…

Parentage and early years: William Jefferson Blythe Jr., Wanetta Ellen Alexander and Kansas City I like to think…

I write about a person who lives on the fringes of fame and in the shadow of an…

Early life, legal trouble, and the Ugly Duckling turnaround I remember first reading about him as a case…