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…
Celebrating Flag Day
Tomorrow, June 14, is Flag Day, the 235th Anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes by the Continental Congress in 1777. A google search on Flag Day led to usflag.org maintained by Duane Streufert who has done extensive research on the celebration. To paraphrase Streufert, "after three decades of local celebrations around the…
Farming on the roof
There has been so much press recently about growing your own vegetables that I wanted to introduce you to a couple of savvy neighborhood gardeners who are ahead of the curve on this national trend. First meet CWEnder Anna Colangelo Cardot, above, who grew up in a large Italian family in Lynn, Massachusetts. Her parents…