When Big Muddy Adventure’s Guideshop at 4662 Washington (behind Bowood Farms) opened in 2021, I wrote an enthusiastic welcome post describing the shop and their river adventures. But I had not yet signed up for one of their canoe trips on the Mississippi, until my niece Emily Stoddard and her family came to visit from…
Category: Events, Sightings
Book signing for former St. Louisan Christina Hawatmeh at Left Bank Books
In June, Left Bank Books held a book signing for St. Louis native Christina Hawatmeh, one of the few in-person author events held since the pandemic began. Coincidentally, the pandemic is precisely what Hawatmeh’s book is about. The Year Time Stopped, The Global Pandemic in Photos, features 200 photographs from around the world depicting the…
Still time to view art exhibitions in McPherson galleries
There are two exhibitions in McPherson art galleries you should stop in and see before they end. Duane Reed Gallery’s Moments and Memories, oil paintings by former KSDK’s award-winning news anchor Karen Foss, closes this Saturday, January 8. Houska Gallery’s Wild Thing will remain on view until January 22. Other McPherson galleries are either closed…