Vanessa Whiteside is spilling Wichita’s secrets. Whiteside, a travel blogger and writer, again draws on her natural curiosity and the love of her hometown for her second Wichita-centric book published through Reedy Press. In the introduction to “Secret Wichita: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure,” Whiteside writes that she took on the task of sharing Wichita’s secrets “because I wanted to learn as much as possible about the city’s hidden gems, forgotten stories, and intriguing spaces.” The book highlights more than 80 people, places, artifacts, collections and things in Wichita that fall in the category of being weird, wonderful, obscure and maybe, in some cases, odd. Some will be familiar to locals, while some are likely lesser known, such as a museum dedicated to military tanks, a buried robot, a steampunk village in a west Wichita residential community, and a giant rollercoaster that was part of an amusement area on an island in the middle of the city.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle
