Seeking St. Louis

Seeking St. Louis
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Publisher : Missouri History Museum
Total Pages : 1098
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ISBN-10 : 1883982111
ISBN-13 : 9781883982119
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Seeking St. Louis by : Lee Ann Sandweiss

Complementing the new permanent exhibition at the Missouri Historical Society, this anthology gathers over three centuries of writings on St. Louis by 100 individuals who have been inspired to describe the physical and cultural essence of this region. The volume contains excerpted selections from all genres--travel diaries, poetry, fiction, journalism, drama, and rare out-of-print and previously unpublished archival material--including poems by Angus Umphraville, from the first volume of verse published west of the Mississippi, and newspaper articles by Theodore Dreiser when he was a beat reporter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Other compelling excerpts were authored by such notables as Auguste Chouteau, Charles Dickens, William Wells Brown, William T. Sherman, Sara Teasdale, T. S. Eliot, Tennessee Williams, Fanny Hurst, William S. Burroughs, Miles Davis, Nzotake Shange, John Lutz, Carl Phillips, and Quincy Troupe. A biographical introduction precedes each entry to place the author and the excerpt in the proper historical context. The content of Seeking St. Louis was enriched by the involvement of several of the St. Louis area's foremost literary experts--Robert Boyd, Jan Garden Castro, Gerald Early, Wayne Fields, and Karen Goering--who served as contributing editors.

Common Fields

Common Fields
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Publisher : Missouri History Museum
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 1883982154
ISBN-13 : 9781883982157
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Common Fields by : Andrew Hurley

In these pages, geographers, archaeologists, and historians come together to consider the enduring ties between a city's diverse residents and the physical environment on which their well-being depends.

STL Scavenger: The Ultimate Search for St. Louis's Hidden Treasures

STL Scavenger: The Ultimate Search for St. Louis's Hidden Treasures
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Publisher : Reedy Press
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 1681063107
ISBN-13 : 9781681063102
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis STL Scavenger: The Ultimate Search for St. Louis's Hidden Treasures by : Dea Hoover

Looking for a new way to explore the St. Louis region? Get out your magnifying glass, or zoom in on your camera to find these buildings, businesses, statues, and architectural details on a scavenger hunt! Follow the photos and cryptic clues to spot the places hidden in plain sight in fifteen neighborhoods around the city. We hope you will search and find out the history and story behind each one on your quest to finish. Plan a day for each section and linger behind to enjoy the shops, restaurants and parks along your trail of discovery from Clayton to Webster and many other destinations in between. Show family and friends a unique way to visit. Or enjoy a staycation with an added twist of mystery and intrigue. Local tour guide Dea Hoover brings her expert eye and love of the city to this one-of-a-kind experience. Once you've embarked on this St. Louis Scavenger, you'll never see the city the same way again.

100 Things to Do in Saint Louis Before You Die

100 Things to Do in Saint Louis Before You Die
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Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
Total Pages : 150
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ISBN-10 : 9781935806509
ISBN-13 : 1935806505
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis 100 Things to Do in Saint Louis Before You Die by : Amanda E. Doyle

Let’s face it: St. Louis is a big city, and life is short. Whether it’s moving some “must dos” to the “done” column of your bucket list or finding fresh ways to spend your summer in the city, this handy compendium will make the most of your minutes. Bike the Riverfront Trail to the Chain of Rocks Bridge, sip a chocolate malt at Crown Candy Kitchen, hold your breath during the high-wire act at Circus Flora, or admire the architectural and design splendor of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ebsworth Park home: you just gotta do it! One hundred ways to connect with your town await! Special features include insider tips on getting the most from your stops and themed itineraries for the truly adventurous.

Mapping Decline

Mapping Decline
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 299
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ISBN-10 : 9780812291506
ISBN-13 : 0812291506
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Mapping Decline by : Colin Gordon

Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form." Mapping Decline examines the causes and consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and federal housing policies in the "white flight" of people and wealth from the central city. And it traces the inadequacy—and often sheer folly—of a generation of urban renewal, in which even programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as this study of St. Louis makes clear, is not just a consequence of economic and demographic change; it is also the most profound political failure of our recent history. Mapping Decline is the first history of a modern American city to combine extensive local archival research with the latest geographic information system (GIS) digital mapping techniques. More than 75 full-color maps—rendered from census data, archival sources, case law, and local planning and property records—illustrate, in often stark and dramatic ways, the still-unfolding political history of our neglected cities.

Chinese St. Louis

Chinese St. Louis
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Publisher : Temple University Press
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 1439905819
ISBN-13 : 9781439905814
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Chinese St. Louis by : Huping Ling

St. Louis Plans

St. Louis Plans
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Publisher : Missouri History Museum
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 9781883982614
ISBN-13 : 1883982618
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis St. Louis Plans by : Mark Tranel

"Reviews the history of various aspects of planning in St. Louis City and County and provides insight into planning successes and challenges"--Provided by publisher.

Great River City

Great River City
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1883982952
ISBN-13 : 9781883982959
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Great River City by : Andrew Wanko

"This book examines the importance of the Mississippi River across time and through the lens of a single city: St. Louis. Features hundreds of maps, artifacts, and fascinating historic images, spanning back to St. Louis's founding and even earlier"--

BAG

BAG
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Publisher : Missouri History Museum
Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : 1883982510
ISBN-13 : 9781883982515
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis BAG by : Benjamin Looker

From 1968 to 1972, St. Louis was home to the Black Artists' Group (BAG), a seminal arts collective that nurtured African American experimentalists involved with theater, visual arts, dance, poetry, and jazz. Inspired by the reinvigorated black cultural nationalism of the 1960s, artistic collectives had sprung up around the country in a diffuse outgrowth known as the Black Arts Movement. These impulses resonated with BAG's founders, who sought to raise black consciousness and explore the far reaches of interdisciplinary performance--all while struggling to carve out a place within the context of St. Louis history and culture.A generation of innovative artists--Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake, and Emilio Cruz, to name but a few--created a moment of intense and vibrant cultural life in an abandoned industrial building on Washington Avenue, surrounded by the evisceration that typified that decade's "urban crisis." The 1960s upsurge in political art blurred the lines between political involvement and artistic production, and debates over civil rights, black nationalism, and the role of the arts in political and cultural struggles all found form in BAG. This book narrates the group's development against the backdrop of St. Louis spaces and institutions, examines the work of its major artists, and follows its musicians to Paris and on to New York, where they played a dominant role in Lower Manhattan's 1970s "loft jazz" scene. By fusing social concern and artistic innovation, the group significantly reshaped the St. Louis and, by extension, the American arts landscape.

Movers and Shakers, Scalawags and Suffragettes

Movers and Shakers, Scalawags and Suffragettes
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Publisher : Missouri History Museum
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : 9781883982652
ISBN-13 : 1883982650
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Movers and Shakers, Scalawags and Suffragettes by : Carol Ferring Shepley

"The history of Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis is told through the stories of those who are buried there. Cemetery records and interviews with insiders inform the research"--Provided by publisher.