columbus fark. it is amazing to think about this aspect of that relationship. dunham is living with christopher columbus fark, his great-grandfather, who fought in the civil war or the north for the missouri militia. at a very early age. that same stanley dunham will grow up to be the grandfather of the first african-american president of the united states. that sweep of history was really connected by one man. stanley dunham, and so many other ways, was called a combination man. he's a fast talker, he dropped out of high school. when he came back to kansas after his first trip, he said that he was a writer out in california he had befriended a couple of good writers and had all of these writings in his trunk that he brought back with him. that was profoundly impressionable on a young woman who grew up in augusta, kansas. her name was madeleine kane. she did not want to be trapped in a small town. yearnings to be sophisticated and just out of small-town kansas. her heroine was bette davis and should go to the theater in investor kansas and watch bette davis on