Originally Posted by Jeanette Frantz

I do not live in Wichita, Kansas now, but during my junior (middle) school and high school years (oh, so many years ago) , my family lived in Wichita. Wichita was at that time and I'm sure is now, a much larger town that we were used to, but we learned our way around. There are a lot of cultural events, fairs and things that took place there, back in the late 1950's, early 1960's to February of 1963. I attended Wichita High School North, and it has such an aura of history -- it's a beautiful, historic building, and I trust it's still there. I married in 1963, and I have not lived in Wichita since then -- we moved to East Texas where my husband attended college, and eventually moved to Florida in 1967. Despite some disadvantages (and there are disadvantages anywhere you live) we've come to love Florida, and as much as I hate to move, I don't think it's likely that I would return to Arkansas where I was born and raised -- I can't take the cold weather, and despite the fact that, yes, we do have deep summer days which are hot, we don't usually have snow in the winter, and the hurricanes I heard mentioned -- well they're a lot less frequent than the tornadoes, etc. which occur in other places, yes, even in the mountains of my home state, Arkansas. I know that Wichita did, back in the early 1960's, have local bus service to the downtown area, and I'm sure to other areas of the city. I worked part-time after school, and caught the bus not far from my school (at that time, the bus fare was minimal). Of course, I'm sure there have been lots of changes in Wichita as there have been across the country. The only thing I can say, is where you make your home is up to you. Home is where the heart is, and if your family is in Wichita, that's where I think I'd want to be! JMHO