May 24, 2022
In 1912, the threat of tuberculosis was very real. One woman used her considerable wealth and influence create the first open-air “rest camp” for young working women to try to help the situation. Just press play to hear the whole story. ------
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May 19, 2022
One of the things that would set St. Louis on its path toward being world renown in medicine, was the arrival of Antoine Saugrain. A doctor who, among other things, gave the first small pox vaccines west of the Mississippi. Just press play to hear the whole story. ------
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May 13, 2022
In the great march for civil rights and social justice, few stories of enslaved people are as compelling as the story of Dred and Harriet Scott and their family. They ultimately gained freedom, but not through the courts as they intended. Just press play to hear the whole story. ------
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May 3, 2022
The first Modernist Style Church in St. Louis was St. Mark's. Instead of the vivid images of cherubs, saints, and sunbursts usually found in religious stained glass, these windows would carry abstract visions of the current era’s deepest challenges, including war, poverty and union issues. Just press play to hear the...