St. Francois State Park in Bonne Terre, MO has a clean creek, shallow river, and great trails full of decaying trees and lead mine holes.
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Rest in Joy, John Wynn
Saturday, August 14th, 2010
This spring when I called John Wynn, he listened to my pitch about a mandolin art history project and invited me out to his shop. When I arrived in a big red Chevy, Mr. Wynn said, “a girl who drives a truck—there’s a girl I can trust.” He laughed, and I laughed, and we were [...]
Pictures from Meramec State Park
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Rivers smell right. Slightly fishy, mud dense with minerals. This weekend, the Meramec State Park superintendent told me, the river ran a little high and looked murkier than usual. I had only seen it a few times, twice last summer as we entered via the Huzzah, and once more when my friends and I visited Route [...]