If you’re one of the 16,600 serious or casual history buffs who are members of the popular Facebook group Wichita History from Our Perspective, the name Mike Maxton will likely sound familiar.
Maxton, 70, is one of the most active members of the group, and he regularly authors posts about Wichita history, sharing old newspaper clippings about the city’s earliest postal route or then-and-now photos of recognizable local buildings.
He’s also usually the first person to hop in the comments when members of the group ask for help learning about the history of their houses or are curious which business originally occupied a certain building. Maxton is an expert at tracking that information down, and he loves discovering the answers to those questions as much as the people who posed them…