You won’t want to miss the March meeting of Kansas Authors Club District 5! Writer, musician, culinary instructor, and gentleman chicken farmer Joe Stumpe will be our guest speaker. A native of Alton, IL, Joe worked for newspapers in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma before becoming the Wichita Eagle’s food editor in 2000. Since 2009, he’s been a freelance writer for many publications and clients, including The New York Times, Agence France-Press and Aerospace America magazine. In August, he became editor of The Active Age, a monthly newspaper for seniors in Sedgwick, Butler and Harvey counties. He lives in Riverside with his wife, Carrie Rengers, who’s a columnist for the Wichita Eagle, and their five chickens.
Joe will be speaking about Wicked Wichita, his first book, which has been on Watermark Books best seller list pretty much continuously since its release back in October 2018. Wicked Wichita is a history of early Wichita’s “madams and murderers, bootleggers and bank robbers, con men and crooked cops.”
Joe will have copies of his book along to sign. You can also find Wicked Wichita (History Press, 2018, 128 pp, Paperback) on the shelf at Watermark Books & Café in Wichita. It is also available from Amazon.
When: Saturday, March 9, 2019 at 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Where: Larksfield Place, 7 373 E. 29th St. N., Wichita KS (just west of Rock Rd. on the south side of 29th Street).
Park in the Visitors lot and enter the Welcome Entrance walking left through the main dining room to the Lakeview Dining Room.
Where: Larksfield Place, 7 373 E. 29th St. N., Wichita KS (just west of Rock Rd. on the south side of 29th Street).
Park in the Visitors lot and enter the Welcome Entrance walking left through the main dining room to the Lakeview Dining Room.