Kansas Community Networks

City of Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas

New: Parcel Magazine, Literary magazine dedicated to readers with a love of the elegant, tangible, hand-delivered book, Lawrence

Kansas African-American Museum, New Web Address @ http://tkaamuseum.org/

Bruce Conner Memorial, "ON BRUCE CONNER (may he rest in peace) AND ASSORTED KANSAN COHORTS," by poet Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, 2008, Beats In Kansas

Alison Streiff Scott and George Laughead, Wichita Vortex location; camera held by Neal Smith; August 2009.

Expanded Charles Plymell section at Beats in Kansas

• "Nobody Rides For Free" by Grant Hart (formerly in Husker Du), music video by Laki Vazakas; Charley Plymell notes: "I first met Grant at B's [William Burroughs] funeral. Charles Henri Ford has a cameo in this and Ray Bremser kissing the bird."
• New: Poet Charles Plymell Ad Astra Poetry Project # 33, by Denise-Low, Kansas Poet Laureate, 2009
• Charles Plymell: The Benzedrine Highway Interview - by Paul Hawkins, photographs
• Charles Plymell, from Kansa, Land of the Wind People [Autobiographical sketch] 12/02, Beats In Kansas
• Charles Plymell The Last of the Moccasins, 1996 ('Vortex' excerpt) Beats in Kansas

New Robert Branaman section at Beats In Kansas

New by Patrick J. O'Connor:
The Black Experience and the Blues in 1950s Wichita
Folk Music Clubs In Wichita: Melody And Protest
Minstrel and Medicine Shows -- Creating a Market for the Blues
The Weasels: Underground Success of A Kansas Rock Group

Wichita Restaurant Reviews: Blueberry Lemon

Holmes Museum of Anthropology, WSU, Wichita

19th Century Kansas Traveling Shows, by Patrick Joseph O'Connor, Wichita

Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy, Pro-clean Energy Advocacy Group

Kansas Register of Historic Places Nomination: Kaufman Building - Built in 1924, the Kaufman Building is significant for its association with Wichita’s role as a wholesale wheat-trading center during the 1920s and as an example of architect-designed early twentieth-century fireproof commercial construction. Local entrepreneur Hilbert Kaufman commissioned the building in 1922 and hired the architecture firm of Eberson and Weaver, a Chicago-based firm, to design his building.

Wichita's Mentholatum building celebrates 100 years

Kansas Historic Preservation Resources

WWW-VL: US Historic Preservation

Sedgwick County KS Web Sites

Art, Music and Theater

• Artists In Kansas Kansas Art Centers, Kansas Art Galleries, KS Art Museums
• Beats In Kansas The Beat Generation in the Heartland
  KS Beatniks, with Wichita related links to Beat Vortex, Charles Plymell, Bruce Conner, Roxie Powell, James Johnson,
  Michael McClure, James Mechem, Moody Connell, Lee Streiff
• Lee Streiff, July 14, 1932 - August 1, 2004, Wichita
• William Burroughs Photo Gallery, Beats In Kansas
• A Blackout Tavern: Study in 1960s Folklore, by Pat O'Connor, Wichita; Beats In Kansas
• Moody's Skidrow Beanery, by Pat O'Connor, Beats In Kansas
• City Arts Wichita, Wichita/Sedgwick County Arts & Humanities Council, Wichita
• Cooking In Kansas Cookbooks, recipes, pioneer, cowboy cooking
• Drug Policy Forum of Kansas, Lawrence
• Fisch Haus Studios, Wichita
• Society of Decorative Painters, Wichita
• Steckline Gallery, Newman College, Wichita
• Mark S. Walker, Wichita
• Wichita Arts, Division of Arts and Cultural Services, Wichita
• Wichita Art Museum, Wichita
• Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita
• Wichita Photo Archives,
  Wichita-Sedwick County Historical Museum,
  Wichita Public Library, WSU Libraries
• Wichita Symphony Orchestra
• The Wichita Vortex Beats in Wichita, 1940s-60s, by Lee Streiff [off-line, archive.org copy]
• Kansas Compassionate Care Coalition
• The Kansas Guidebook for explorers, by Marci Penner. A tour of every organized city in the state. 432-page book with 400+ color photos and 3,597 entries.

Events and Festivals

• Kansas Art Events

General Sites

• Compassionate Care Coalition for Medical Marijuana
• Kechi Chamber of Commerce
• Wichita Chamber of Commerce
• Kansas Equality Coalition Wichita and Sedgwick County Chapter

History Groups

• Kansas History Resources
  Kansas Genealogy, Kansas Libraries, Kansas Museums
• Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum Assoc.
• Kansas Cattle Town Coalition
  (Abilene, Caldwell, Dodge City, Ellsworth, Newton & Wichita)
• Chisholm Trail Commemorative Ceremony, Wichita
• American Frontier Reenactment Guild
• Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka

History Web Directories

• Kansas Heritage Group Web Sites
• Kansas History Web Sites Directory
• Kansas History Resources
  Genealogy, Groups, Libraries, Museums
• Kansas Official History Site
• WWW-VL: USA History Timelines
• WWW-VL: US Agricultural History

Humanities

• Kansas Humanities Council
• History Alive, Kansas Humanities Council Programs

Libraries

• Ablah Library Special Collections and University Archives (WSU)
• Kansas State Library, Topeka

WWW-VL: United States History Index

• Kansas History Gateway Lynn H. Nelson, Established 1993
• USA History Maps
• WWW-VL: US 1930s History
• WWW-VL: US 1960s History
• American West History: The expansion of America's West; Old West history
• WWW-VL: History: Military History
• WWW-VL: History: Iraq History
• WWW-VL: History: Bosnia History (for all the Bosnian Kansas friends)
• WWW-VL: History: Internet History History of the internet and the worldwideweb
• WWW-VL: History of Science & Technology

Magazines

Museums

• Holmes Museum of Anthropology, WSU, Wichita
Southwest Pueblo Indian Pottery
• Hopalong Cassidy Cowboy Museum At Prairie Rose (near Wichita)
• Frank Lloyd Wright Allen-Lambe House Museum, Wichita
• Old Cowtown Museum, Wichita
• Kansas Aviation Museum, Wichita
• Kansas African-American Museum, Wichita
• Kansas Firefighters Museum, Wichita
• Kansas Sports Hall of Fame, Wichita
• Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum, Wichita
• Kansas Museum of History, Topeka
• Kansas History Museums
• WWW-VL: History US History Museums
• Mountain-Plains Museums Association
MPMA Museums Myspace

Newspapers

• Wichita Eagle

Rare Books

• Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita

Website Tools

• WWW-VL: History: Search Engines Internet search engines, search tips, website tools.

Visitors and Tour Groups

• Exploration Place, Wichita
• Sedgwick County Zoo, Wichita
• Kansas Traveler News for KS Tourists

Government

• Honorable Wesley Brown, H. Res. 512: Honoring and commending the Honorable Wesley E. Brown, United States District Court, on his 100th birthday, 2007
• Goddard Government
• Wichita Government
• Sedgwick County Government
• Topeka, Kansas state capital
• Todd Tiahart [blog]
• Kansas History Resources: Kansas Government
• Kansas Energy Council, Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Policy and Economics, 2007 August [.pdf]

Graphics

• Special Collections, Wichita State University Libraries
• Wichita Photo Archive [huge collection]
• Old West Photograph Gallery Frontier wild west images
• Old Kansas Area Maps

Schools and Universities

• Kapaun Mt. Carmel Catholic High School
• Derby USD 260 Public Schools
• Friends University, Wichta
• Newman University, Wichita
• Wichita Area Techincal Collete
• Wichita State University
• Other
  • Southwind Sangha Sôtô Zen Association, Wichita

Genealogy

• Sedgwick County KsGenWeb
• The Wichita Genealogical Society
• Kansas Interactive Genealogy
• Source List for Genealogy Research
• WWW-VL: History: US Demography and Genealogy
• State and National

Family History

• Kansas Family History (all with Kansas ties)
• Kansas Surname List, Kansas Heritage Group
• ANJAL, ANGEL, ANGELL [Sedgwick]
• WILSON, Malinda Reagan [Sedgwick]

Local History

• Native Kansas Prairie Wildflowers and Tallgrass Kansas Heritage
• Pioneer Trails From U.S. Land Surveys: Kansas Heritage
• Territorial Kansas online history links, KS Heritage Group
• Wichita History
• Racing In Kansas KS Race Cars, Race Clubs, and Race Tracks
• Reading Roadside Kansas, Dr. Jay Price, History Dept., Wichita State University
• Kansas Cowboy Symposium Links, Dodge City
• Wichita Ghost Tours 'Ghost' history of Wichita and area -- tours
• Evolution In Kansas Intelligent Design, Creationism, Evolution Theory

Old West Kansas

• Old West Kansas, Native tribes to pioneer west, Kansas Heritage Group
• Old West Kansas Cowtowns KS cowboys, cattletowns, pioneers
• Old West Kansas Forts Ft. Leavenworth to Ft. Dodge, KS
• Old West Kansas Gunfighters KS lawmen, outlaws
• Old West Kansas Peoples Immigration to KS
• Old West Kansas Plains and Emigrant Tribes Native Americans (Indians)
• Old West Kansas Railroads
• Old West Kansas Trails

Research Resources

• WWW-VL: History: US History Data Bases
• WWW-VL: History: US History Federal Sources
• WWW-VL: History: US History Journals

Books and Articles

• AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American History from 1400s to 2000s
• WWW-VL: History First site on the World Wide Web Virtual Library
• WWW-VL: Web Stacks: Electronic Research Library
• WWW-VL: Web Ethics
• Cutler's "History of the State of Kansas" (1883) Sedgwick County (KanColl)
• Pioneer Days in Kansas by Cordley, Rev. Richard (KanColl)
• Winter Wheat in the Golden Belt of Kansas James C. Malin
• Dodge City, the Cowboy Capital, by Robert M. Wright (1913), Dodge City Town President/Founder
• The Medical Front WWI, All medical aspects & history, military and civilian, of World War One, the Great War