image via Here’s to you, Nicolas Appert! Let’s toast with the jar you invented. Today marks the beginning of National Canned Food Month. Why is February National Canned Food Month?…
Like residents of every city, St. Louisans have their quirks that must be explained to outsiders: their fondness for Provel cheese, for one, or their use of the word “hoosier”…
image via Click here to see the map enlarged. Even back in 1884, before college football was the widespread money-making machine it was today, the names of many of your…
image via For sale: One fine-looking house with an impeccable literary pedigree. If you can imagine it, William S. Burroughs was once a child right here in St. Louis. His…
image via Thomas Hart Benton, after his dueling years. The most famous duel in American history was the one in Weehawken, New Jersey, in 1804 where Aaron Burr killed Alexander…
