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Before it was known as the Harborside Inn, it was the Pequot House, the Waukesha, and the notorious Royal Hotel, which was rumored to be a brothel — and was maybe haunted as well.
On a two-lane highway crossing the wheat fields of northeast Kansas is a brown rectangular sign. In large, white block letters, it reads “Frankfort Boys, World War II, Memorial Highway,” which I saw for the first time this past spring. Intrigued, I...