Follow the path around the statue of German-American Civil War General Franz Sigel at the Union Avenue entrance to Forest Park, past the cat tails, and you may come across Marie Jary and her husband, architect Sandy Talley (above), putting the final touches on a pop-up dining pavilion that has finally come to fruition after…
Category: Forest Park
The first weekend in June was action-packed
A couple of years ago there was a Central West End Association committee that organized Happy Hours on Thursdays, called Mirthdays. Though I was not a board member, I was asked to help. The results of our efforts, to put it mildly, were a bust. The only people that joined us for the events were…
Sunday’s bustle at Shakespeare Glen
Sunday's heat wave seemed to have little effect on the holiday crowd as it staked its turf in advance of the 8 p.m. curtain of the Shakespeare Festival's production of Othello. Nor did the pre-preformance activities taking place in every nook and cranny of Shakespeare Glen appeared to be bowed by the extreme temperature. The…