lawrence frick in kansas. c-span is here i learned about the socio- economic class. and it intersects with a lot of aspects of american identity. also an aspect it was kind of under discussed at our 21st century digital post place moment. it is just raw geography. we will talk quite a bit about place and for that reason i thought i would tell you why lawrence is such a special place to me. you will glean some of the themes of my book. i grew up on a wheat and cattle farm. i was raised largely by my grandparents who left school in sixth and ninth grade respectively to work. a first generation college student in the first of my family to have the privilege really had been paid for my passion rather than breaking my body and labor. i had worked those sorts of jobs before. we just had immense and internal gratitude. that someone pays me to do what i have a sense of. as a kid in a roll. west of wichita. go eagles. in that school i was a very ambitious kid. a kid like me where a family where education hasn't really been harnessed but because there wasn't that the time or r