1930s
Bruce Conner is born in McPherson, Kansas.
Billy Al Bengston is born in Dodge City, Kansas.
Dennis Hopper is born in Dodge City, Kansas.
1940s
Terry Allen is born in Wichita, Kansas.
1950s
Bruce Conner begins undergraduate studies at the Municipal University of Wichita (now Wichita State University).
Jim Nutt briefly attends college at the University of Kansas, then the University of Pennsylvania, then Washington University in St. Louis. He eventually settles on the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where he meets his future wife, Gladys Nilsson.
1960s
Bruce Conner and Jean Conner move back to Wichita, Kansas, and then to the Boston area, living briefly at Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert’s commune.