Monthly Archives: September 2014

I went to the dentist today and wound up selling three copies of The Making of an Icon: The Dreamers, The Schemers, and The Hard Hats Who Built the Gateway Arch. My dentist bought one, the hygienist bought another, and the lady who took my money bought a third. I signed the dentist’s copy: “Here’sContinue reading “For once, the dentist gave me more than a toothbrush”

 This Saturday, Sept. 27, you can immerse yourself in the lives of eight  local authors – including myself – at the Third Annual Author Breakfast of the Carondelet  Branch of the St. Louis Public Library 6800 Michigan Avenue. You can enjoy a light breakfast with Jennifer Adele, Laura Benedict, Heather Brewer, John Dalton, Irene Hannon, JudyContinue reading “Meet the Authors”

Back in 2010, I struck a chord with his book Hoosiers and Scrubby Dutch: St. Louis’s South Side. “If a transplant wants to understand the South Side, he or she should read Merkel’s book,” wrote Bill McClellan of the Post-Dispatch. A second edition is due out in October, with new chapters about Globe Drug, theContinue reading “Time to Celebrate”