Monthly Archives: March 2017

Still alert and smiling at the age of 109, Dorothy Hunter has much to say about growing up near Tower Grove Park in the first and second decades of the 20th Century. “I think children obeyed more readily then than now,” she told me. Fred Blumenthal was the son of a Jewish pathologist who movedContinue reading “Face to face with history”

 I’m always excited when I start a new book. I’m really excited about my next one. What isn’t exciting about a book filled with our best memories? The book has the tentative title, Growing Up in St. Louis. We may change the name after it comes out around the fall of 2018, but not theContinue reading “A Book Full of Memories”