A forthcoming book describes boom and bust in Wichita and blustery cycles of economic bravado.
Ask Chase Billingham for his interpretation of the most famous poem ever written about downtown Wichita, and he will describe the eye of a political and cultural vortex that has rippled through American society for decades. But we will get to that vortex presently. Recently I asked Billingham, an urban sociologist and author of a […]