When Peggy McClellan started planning her CWE backyard 32 years ago, her husband Guy asked if she knew she was recreating her grandmother's garden in Charleston. She hadn't realized it until he said it. The entire backyard had been made into a brick patio by the previous homeowner, who moved several blocks away, and told…
Category: Art & Architecture
Thursday afternoon in Forest Park
I skipped out during yesterday's beautiful, blustery afternoon for a walk in Forest Park with a friend. We met at the History Museum and then meandered around the Muny and and eventually wound up in the wildflower meadow in the Deer Lake area (at Union). There we encountered one of Forest Park Forever's Nature Reserve…
Creatively recycling plastic bags
One evening last week, during one of Jim's end-of-the-day "de-stresser" forays into Forest Park, he happened upon artist Ifeoma Anyaeji working in a grove of trees just east of the Grand Basin. He learned that the artist, who hails from Nigeria, is a graduate student at WU's Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts….