"Introduction by Jonathan M. Kemper ... This note is written to provide context to the monograph distributed by The Newcomen Society to memorialize the Society's meeting in Kansas City on October 12, 2000"--P. 4.
Includes the authors' play, The Kansas City chronicles, which "has six principal sections, roughly corresponding to 50 year intervals, starting with 1800 and concluding with a simple birthday greeting to the city from a young inhabitant in 2050" (p. 5).