Last week, over Spring Break, some friends of mine kidnapped me for a day trip to a zoo I hadn’t visited in 23 years… the St. Louis Zoo. Of course, 23 years is a small metaphorical drop in the hat for the zoo, whose history is directly tied in with the 1904 World’s Fair. That year, … Continue reading
Jefferson City, Missouri is one of two state capitals not served by the Interstate system and is a relatively uneventfully small town (in sharp contrast to major metropolitan state capitals such as Salt Lake City in Utah or Nashville, Tennessee). But something about the river town is special, and it’s not just from it being … Continue reading