By far the oldest of the more than 100 people I interviewed for Growing Up St. Louis was Dorothy Hunter. I met her in the spring of 2017 in her room in the Meramec Bluffs Care Center, an assisted living facility in Ballwin. Born in 1907, the retired school teacher was 109, but hadContinue reading “Memories of a Long, Lost St. Louis”
Monthly Archives: April 2020
An Interview About Growing Up St. Louis
Mischelle Leahy of Reedy Press interviewed me about Growing Up St. Louis: Looking Back Through the Decades. You can buy a copy by clicking here.
How will they remember COVID-19?
Growing Up St. Louis author Jim Merkel ponders what kids today will tell their grandkids about coronavrus.
Jim Merkel the Writer 