Mike Matson
AUTHOR & COLUMNIST

This column was published July 9, 2022 in the Manhattan Mercury. As I was working up the invoice to send to the publisher of The Mercury...

In the summer of 1966, when our family moved from rural Rooks County, Kansas to the mean streets of a Wichita neighborhood called...

This column was published June 25, 2022 in the Manhattan Mercury. Six months after my grandfather married the farmer’s daughter in 1932,...