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“If you don’t know history, you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.”
 – The late author Michael Crichton
PEBBLE BEACH, CALIFORNIA | Chris Little is not that leaf. He knows he is part of a tree. A beautiful tree, a dignified tree, a proud tree.

Chris Little is here to tell his tree’s story. Poignantly. Proudly. Passionately.

Chris Little seeks to complete his father's work. Photo: Courtesy Chris Little

“My mission, where my head is at, is to take my dad’s table of contents to his book ‘Little by Little’ and see that it gets done,” he said. “Maybe it will then be ‘Little by Little by Little.’ ”

And here is where Chris Little smiles pleasantly and shows you that he has what it takes to be a true historian. His spirit is not stirred so he can profit from this book; rather, it is a book to be savored by family, by friends, by people who want the truth to shine upon people they love.

That truth will come from Chris Little.

He never knew his grandfather, Lawson Little Jr., but Chris...