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...Main Street looks authentically cute, attracting house hunters from Wichita fleeing traffic and gangs and drive-by shootings. At the senior center, the ladies are sewing a memorial quilt made of a late father's old dress shirts. "People from large cities find it charming," says Pam Lamborn, owner of the Jackrabbit Hollow Bookstore, gazing up at a pretty frieze of stylized Kansas sunflowers running across the top of the bowling alley. "But you know what's going to happen? The small towns are going to become the big cities all over again." Already nostalgia may have been oversold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BACKBONE OF AMERICA | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...Kansas legislature had in mind when it passed the Predator Act. His 1984 molestation conviction was his fifth in almost 30 years. The only sure way to make him stop molesting children, he has admitted, would be to kill him. "He's really a poster boy for pedophiles," says Wichita district attorney Nola Foulston. "Sometimes he was a carnival worker. He would ingratiate himself with single mothers by taking their children out for ice cream. The mothers would think, 'What a nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THROWING AWAY THE KEY | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...highly personal eight-day encounter with American Indians in the southwestern corner of the state. As he has for the past decade, in Journeys into American Indian Territory programs, Vetter will "bombard" participants with insightful interactions so they will learn about the culture of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Wichita, Caddo, Delaware, Cheyenne and Arapaho people of this region. (This program costs $895 for adults and half as much for children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOME OF THE BRAVES | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

Buffalo will be grazing on the high grass of the Wichita Mountains when Vetter's vans roll in. The herds had been exterminated from this homeland, but were re-established in October 1907, when the Federal Government shipped some buffalo in on railroad cars from the Bronx Zoo. For centuries, Native Americans went to the Wichita Mountains on vision quests. The campers who join Vetter will understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOME OF THE BRAVES | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...then who is responsible? I didn't ask to be attacked, nor did I at any time lead this man on. I was totally innocent. I hope the young women who have had similar experiences don't blame themselves and stand up to this abuse. CINDY MILLER Wichita, Kans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 26, 1997 | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

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