Turtles, serpents, kids – and a bug
Cartoon, photo and essay by Micah Liesenfeld
Talking stones at the sculpture playground.
Our History
Against the Modern
Written by Dr. Brian Frederking
Artwork by Philip Slein
The Trump administration eschews a win-win world.
Spelunking the City
By Chris Naffziger
Photos by Jason Gray
Two intrepid St. Louisans wander our oldest sewer.
The Twain Throwdown
Photo essay by David Higgins
Elmira, N.Y. vs. Hannibal, Mo.
Quien es mas Mark Twain-o?
Closing Time: A requiem for Uncle Bill’s
Essay and photos by Johnathan Poertner
Not many places stay almost the same for your entire life.
Trains, Planes, Automobiles . . . or Buses?
Written by Eddi Bellando
Photographs by Tamara Lee
Traveling via U.S. trains isn’t always best for the environment. Using the proper fuels to electrify our rail system would make a huge difference.
Keepers of the Book
Text by Landon Charlebois
Photos by Caitlin McFalls
“Things should be at angles – it opens up your thinking tremendously. When you have all your shelves straight, it just gives a path for people to go in and go out. People want to go around corners, they want to see what’s there.”
Long live peacekeeping?
By Dr. Brian Frederking
As civil wars predominate, the United Nation’s approach to mitigating conflicts has changed dramatically.
Of the Worker, the Work, and the History
By Tim Rakel
I lived in Saint Louis for nearly 35 years, and so it has inevitably crept into my songwriting. The May Day Orchestra, with which I play most often, has focused on farther-away places. Nonetheless, Saint Louis still emerges in the band’s creations. In writing about May Day and the anarchists of the labor movement, it is important to note that Saint Louis was shut down by a general strike in 1877, a decade before the more widely-known events in Chicago. It is the closest a North American city has ever come to being, however briefly, a collective worker’s state.
At Great Cost
By Chris Naffziger
Close medical observation of the 1849 cholera epidemic in St. Louis led to important public health changes.
The year 1849 in St. Louis serves as a watershed in the city’s history. The boundless optimism of the last two decades came crashing down with the twin disasters of the cholera epidemic and the Great Fire. However, despite the death and destruction of 1849, the population climbed sharply from 35,979 recorded individuals in the 1840 census to 104,978 in 1850 census.