ST. LOUIS, MO—Just in time for Summer, Reedy Press is pleased to announce the release of St. Louis Parks, 2nd Edition, by NiNi Harris and Esley Hamilton.
St. Louisans are rich with the gifts they have inherited from their civic ancestors. Foremost among these gifts are the public parks—city parks, county parks, state parks, and the Gateway Arch National Park.
The creation of these phenomenal parks and park systems began in 1836 with the dedication of 30 acres for Lafayette Park. With this first public park west of the Mississippi, the leadership in early St. Louis demonstrated their commitment to the then radical new public park movement.
One hundred and eighty years later, St. Louis parks—from pocket parks to extensive Victorian landscapes, and from pristine forests and glades to the landscape that is the backdrop for the Gateway Arch—are national treasures.
St. Louis Parks evokes the unique character and history of the individual parks in the St. Louis region and visualizes the need for green spaces, whether to provide an escape to the beauty of nature or for a place to come together as a community.
St. Louis Parks, 2nd Edition, is available wherever books are sold.
BOOK DETAILS
St. Louis Parks, 2nd Edition, by NiNi Harris and Esley Hamilton, \
ISBN: 9781681065885
hardcover, 11 x 9, 176 pages
$42.00
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
NiNi Harris’s earliest memory is of an early autumn evening, picking up acorns as she and her father walked along Bellerive Boulevard to Bellerive Park. Her great-great-grandfather’s first job when he arrived in St. Louis in 1864 was planting trees in a St. Louis park. She has spent her career researching and writing about St. Louis’s parks, architecture, and ethnic neighborhoods and communities. Her books include histories of the Civil War years in St. Louis, the Polish heritage of St. Louis, Black St. Louis, the St. Louis Hills neighborhood, and Downtown St. Louis.
Esley Hamilton worked for the St. Louis County Department of Parks and Recreation as historian and preservationist from 1977 until his retirement in 2015. Among preservationists in the St. Louis region, Hamilton’s is a household name. He taught the history of landscape architecture at Washington University and served on the board of the National Association for Olmsted Parks.
June 14, 11 a.m.
Carondelet Historical Society
6303 Michigan Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63111
314-481-6303
Free and open to the public.
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