a research website by Thornton Lee Streiff
e-mail to thorntonstreiff@mac,com1. How This Website Works:
This is a research website. From time to time various files and images will be posted on it which deal with some aspect of The Wichita Vortex. The purpose of the website is to make rare or unique materials available to those researching The Wichita Vortex.
The Home Page Menu will take you to all of the picture and text pages on the site. Alternately, the links at the tops of the picture pages will take you only to the other picture pages. Picture pages below are marked with an asterisk.
This is the Site Map / Menu which appears on the Home Page, which has links to all pages on the website. To see the entire Menu you must SCROLL DOWN the Home Page:
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ABOUT THIS WEBSITE
° Navigating the website
° E-mail Link
° Copyright Notice.
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The Wichita Vortex Files
Some of the Prose and Poetry of the era.
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*The Beat Vortex
Pictures of the people of the Wichita Vortex Beat scenes.
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Beat History in Wichita
The story of the people in the Wichita Beat groups, by Lee Streiff.
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The Wichita Group
Works of the artists of the Wichita Vortex , by James Johnson.
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Against the Grain
The Beat Scene at Wichita University, by Connie Kachel White.
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The Vortex Archives
The magazines and books of the Vortex Era.
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"The Gods Hate Kansas"
Memories of and by the people of the Times.
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*Flashbacks!
Artwork, photos, and portraits.
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*Film: Day of Wrath
Clip from the 1953 film.
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Day of Wrath
Discussion of the making of the 1953 film.
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*Music
Photos of the musicians of the Beat Period.
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*Ginsberg's Vortex
Pictures of Places and People connected to Ginsberg's 1966 journey to Wichita.
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Ginsberg in Wichita
The story of Ginsberg's trip and an analysis of "Wichita Vortex Sutra".
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*The Martian Epic
Pictures from the 1937 - 1948 Science-Fiction Period.
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The Martian Empire
An introduction to the Martian Empire: 1937 - 1948.
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*The Indian Legend
Images of the Native American myths and of the Crypto-Vortex.
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The Indian Legends
A discussion of the myths of the Wichita Indians.
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Notes on the Pictures
Comments on the Picture Page pictures, by Lee Streiff
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LINKS
Links to webpages of note.
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In Memoriam
A reminder of those people who are part of us.
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A feature of the picture pages is that each of them (except the Music page — which has single enlargement frames) has a “Slide Show” of the enlarged pictures on that page. You can activate the “Slide Show” by clicking on the first frame (or any other frame) and then using the forward and backward arrows on the screen to move through the pictures.
The Picture Pages of this site make it easy to access the images connected with the main topics. The Wichita Vortex Files is a both a photo gallery of several of the writers of the Wichita Beat scene and a menu to the text files that contain some of their poetry and prose from the 1947 to 1966 period. Click on the photos to go to the text.
Pages have a “return” link to the Home Page; although, you can return as easily in most cases by using the “Back” arrow on your browser tool bar — this saves time as pages then do not have to reload. If you entered the site from some page other than the Home Page, however, you will have to use the return link to the Home Page.
2. Using the Site:
There are a few important rules about how the material in the site may be used:
- Permission is hereby granted the researcher to down-load one copy of the material for his own use.
- The researcher should assume that any materials appearing here have been copyrighted and should treat them accordingly. Among other things, this means that (1) actual or virtual copies of the material cannot be sold; (2) permission must be obtained to reprint them in whole or in major part, in either actual or virtual formats; (3) when “fair use” can be justified, credit must be given to the author or artist, or to the site; and (4) any grant of permission to use does not in any way infringe upon the copyright owner’s exclusive and absolute rights to the material.
- To request permission to use the materials, contact me at the e-mail address linked above.
- Permission to use the material, if granted, will be free. However, I reserve the right to deny permission to use it if, in my sole judgment, I believe the material will be used for a purpose other than legitimate scholarly research and/or responsible commentary.
- When requesting permission to use any of the material, please give (1) your name, (2) your e-mail address, (3) your mailing address, (4) the specific material you are requesting permission to use, (5) the use to which the material will be put (including the name of the publication or URL of the website, if it is to be published), and (6) a statement agreeing to abide by these conditions.
- I can answer a limited number of questions regarding the material, but do not expect an extended reply or correspondence. Thus, you should make your inquiries specific and to the point. Allow at least a week for an e-mail reply.
3. Notes on copyright:
According to the “Fair Use” provision of Chapter 1, Section 107 of the 1976 Copyright Act (as amended, see fn. 38):
Ҥ 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use 38
“Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include —
“(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
“(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
“(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
“(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
“The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.”
[see Section C: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ21.pdf]
In amplifying these standards, the following examples are given of fair use:
“... quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author’s observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; ....”
It is hoped that the researcher using any of the works contained here will observe a regard for copyright considerations by using it in a non-profit, educational manner, and by according proper recognition for the source.
4. If You Were Part of the Wichita Vortex Scene:
If you were part of the Wichita Vortex Scene in the years from 1937 to 1966 and have stories, pictures, or commentary related to that experience and would like to have them included on this site, contact me at the e-mail address above. The text files on this site were prepared using AppleWorks 6 files and Word 5.1a files, which were converted to html files. You may use any of these formats as attachments to e-mails to me. Later versions of Word will save files in the 5.1 format. Pictures should be in jpeg format.
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