The Kansas Experiment (Published 2015)

"People are leaving Kansas," Gene Suellentrop told the writer in January.Credit...Holly Andres for The New York Times When I think of my uncle Gene, I think of a man who, late into the night at a particularly boisterous family wedding, would flatten his palms against the dance floor, extend his body parallel to the ground and then begin to undulate his legs and torso in a move known as the worm. O