Continuing my series of my best stories as a Suburban Journals reporter, here’s what I wrote about my hour as a homeless person. I went back to the warm newsroom when I was done. A real homeless person would go back to his bench. http://www.stltoday.com/suburban-journals/illinois/hour-story-one-with-the-homeless/article_e1e1d304-3d17-5bb9-b40c-cbbb528aba38.html
My Hour as a Homeless Man
Published by Jim Merkel
Reedy Press published four of my books, Hoosiers and Scrubby Dutch: St. Louis's South Side, 2010; Beer, Brats, and Baseball: St. Louis Germans, 2012; The Making of an Icon: The Dreamers, The Schemers, and the Hard Hats Who Built the Gateway Arch; and the Second Edition of Hoosiers and Scrubby Dutch: St. Louis's South Side, 2014. They're available in bookstores and online. For an autographed copy, send a check for $21.50 made out to Jim Merkel, to Jim Merkel, 4216 Osceola St., St. Louis, MO 63116. View more posts