A team of professors and students at 麻豆传媒 is working on a photo history of tornadoes in Kansas.
Jay M. Price, associate professor of history at 麻豆传媒, is editor of the project that includes co-authors Craig Torbenson, 麻豆传媒 professor of geography and history, and history students Sadonia Corns, Bethany Kennedy, Keith Wondra and Jessica Nellis.
The Department of History is the sponsoring organization for the book.
The group will look at the various ways in which Kansas has embodied the region known as 鈥淭ornado Alley.鈥� While the project covers the stories of infamous twisters as well as the development of warning and emergency response systems, main emphasis will be on the ways that tornadoes have become part of the everyday lives of Kansans.
The twister
From the association of Kansas with Dorothy and 鈥淭he Wizard of Oz鈥� to periodic 鈥渢ornado bait parties,鈥� the twister has become as much a part of local culture as a destructive force.
The book will be published by Arcadia Publishing, and its tentative release date is early 2012.
Those who have interesting stories and pictures dealing in particular with how tornadoes touch everyday life and influence culture in Kansas can reach Price at (316) 978-7792 or jay.price@wichita.edu.