Gregory Daurer

Denver native Neal Cassady Inspired Jack Kerouac to write On the Road. But his legacy includes more than the Beat Generation: He also fathered a secret son, Robert Hyatt.

How did a Louisiana-bred associate professor of African-American Studies at Georgia’s Valdosta State University come to the conclusion that Denver was “the most important place in the country to the glue-sniffing epidemic”? For historian and author Thomas Aiello, it started when he began researching his 2010 book Bayou Classic: The...

“Horseradish!” That was Lewis Emanuel Trenner’s “Aha!” moment. He usually kept a tape recorder next to his bed in order to capture random thoughts that came to him during the night, and his daughter Anita, who was a high-school student in 1965, still recalls her father shouting “Horseradish!” After learning...

Paul Thompson had a forged note from his mother in hand, authorizing him to purchase model-airplane glue. The preteen presented the phony document to the man behind the counter of the drugstore at West Alameda Avenue and South Federal Boulevard, who then sold Thompson his ration of two tubes. Once,...