Monthly Archives: March 2014

Five days before the release/signing party for The Making of an Icon: The Dreamers, the Schemers, and the Hard Hats Who Built the Gateway Arch, some trivia. About a million people ride the trams to the top every year. They make about 150 trips to the top on a busy day, which amounts to 5,600Continue reading “Just 5 days to go”

Thirty-two years elapsed from the time Luther Ely Smith proposed a riverfront memorial to Thomas Jefferson on the riverfront to the topping-out of the Gateway Arch on Oct. 28, 1965. Thirty-two years! Fortunately, we have only seven days to wait until the release-signing party for the my new book The Making of an Icon: TheContinue reading “Just 7 days left”

With eight days to go before the release/signing party for my new book, I was running around like crazy dropping off copies to TV, radio and newspaper types. I started in St. Louis Hills, hightailed it downtown, then sprinted to Webster and South County and came back downtown to hand out more copies. I’m beat.Continue reading “8 days to go”

Yes, nine days before the release party for The Making of an Icon: The Dreamers, the Schemers, and the Hard Hats Who Built the Gateway Arch, the books arrived. You know how cars have that new-car smell? This has a new-book smell. You can get one, personally autographed and smelling all new, at the releaseContinue reading “9 Days to Go”

The Making of an Icon: The Dreamers, the Schemers, and the Hard Hats Who Built the Gateway Arch arrived today from the printer. I pick up my copies at 2 p.m. today. Pictures later.

. . . Until the Release/Signing Party for The Making of an Icon: The Dreamers, the Schemers, and the Hard Hats Who Built the Gateway Arch from 2-5 p.m. Saturday, April 5 at the Tavern of Fine Arts, 313 Belt Ave. in the Central West End. Clear your calendar. It’ll be here before you knowContinue reading “The Countdown Begins”

The printer will ship copies of my book on the Gateway Arch on March 26, a mere week away. Reedy Press should get them March 27 or 28. So here’s a way to get a first-out-of-the-box limited autographed edition of “The Making of an Icon: The Dreamers, the Schemers, and the Hard Hats who builtContinue reading “Limited editions available”

Eero Saarinen and his associates spent 14 years tweaking the design of the Gateway Arch to get it just right. Not too round, not too pointed. Today, art lovers look up in awe at his creation, while math geeks are amazed at the equations written to describe it. It’s one of the many reasons itContinue reading “Fourteen years”

By my calendar, the release party for “The Making of an Icon: The Dreamers, the Schemers, and the Hard Hats Who Built the Gateway Arch” will be exactly a month from today. Here’s a big invite to anyone who can read this to attend the event from 2-5 p.m. Saturday, April 5 at the TavernContinue reading “One Month from Now”