“Blues is the roots. Everything else is the fruits.” —Willie Dixon. Only a few steps into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame we found this: Jim Morrison’s Cub Scout uniform. Iconic. Ironic. Morrisonic. We moved deeper… The Rock and … Read More
Mother turns 100
Route 66 has provided much of the wallpaper to our lives. Music and food. Art and architecture. Grapes and wrath. This year the Mother Road celebrates her 100th birthday. She’s aged in fits and starts, triumphs and tragedies, but we … Read More
Low water. High time.
Early spring. Jacks needs rain. Floated the upper Jacks last weekend. A few intrepid souls put in at the Prongs, the rest began from Buck Hollow, whose beach offered an easy launch thanks to low water. The journey was as … Read More
Runagroundabout
If your groundhog saw this, you’ll get six more weeks of stuck. A rare sighting of a runagroundabout somewhere in Harrison County.
Lunch at the Eagles Club
“Don’t be disappointed if we don’t see any eagles,” I warned my two young daughters as we drove round the last curve before we reached the river. A frigid January had tamed the top of the Mighty Mississippi. Only the … Read More
It was a close call on Route 66, one that made us shudder. We had escaped Texas and crossed into the Land of Enchantment at the spot where New Mexico’s vista opens up like a Georgia O’Keefe flower. As we … Read More
More Cowgirl
We heard about the cowgirl who stands beside her headless cowboy. Did she decapitate him? Or does she stand beside her man in his time of need? We set out to solve the mystery. Along the way we discovered more … Read More
The Woman Who Toppled Madmen
I left grad school to take a job with Gardner Advertising, Saint Louis’ second-largest ad agency. Clients ranged from Busch Beer and the St. Louis Baseball Cardinals to Puppy Chow and Chuck Wagon dog food, to Jack Daniels whiskey. Even … Read More
