Paul Wenske
Freelance reporter
Stories by Paul Wenske
Kansas City and the Roots of Black Gospel Music
Kansas City has a rich and influential legacy when it comes to the development of Black gospel music. This is its largely untold story.
Resurrecting Quindaro
As Americans north and south of the Mason-Dixon Line debated slavery, a boomtown that sprouted from the scrub along the Missouri River emerged as one of the most unlikely bellwethers of the national mood in the run-up to the Civil War. That community was Quindaro, Kansas, and virtually overnight it became something of a prototype…
The Rise and Fall of a Boomtown
Get a deeper history of the port town of Quindaro and hear from a local woman who used our curiousKC initiative to ask why excavations had not been finished for the important site.