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Hi there! The Admiral had a tough go of it at the end, after having tried and failed to be revived as a casino. At the end of July in 2011, it was towed to Luhr Brothers River Terminal on the Illinois side of the Mississippi and was scrapped down to the hull. In October 2011, the hull was ultimately sold to scrap as well and towed to the Tennessee River for that purpose.

If you're interested in learning more about the Admiral, there are three books I'd recommend:

The Steamer Admiral and Streckfus Steamers: A Personal View by Annie Amantea Blum, who worked on the Admiral as a teenager and whose husband piloted the Admiral (among many other boats)

The Steamer Admiral, from the Images of America series, also by Annie Amantea Blum. This one is a photographic collection and includes pictures of the scrapping in process, down to the hull.

Admiral: A History by J. Thomas Dunn, who originally worked for Streckfus Steamers and is now associated with the Gateway Tours boats. This book contains the most recent photograph I think I've seen of the Admiral, in 2011, scrapped down to the hull at St. Louis and on it's way to Tennessee.

The St. Louis Mercantile Library houses the Streckfus archival collection and there are many pictures available online here: http://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/umsl/islandora/object/umsl%3A104330
We have plans to add more, as well as to duplicate these onto Flickr for easier sharing, in the coming months.

Hope that helps! Feel free to reach out to the Pott Library with any additional questions!

Baking. Take a class or two at Companion, grab Flour Water Salt Yeast and start practicing. Then start perfecting things you can make using lots of bread, like bread pudding, sandwiches, french toast casserole. Gift bread to friends.

If you are looking to get out of the house and avoid the cold darkness, try the art museum on Friday nights. Choose to do a slow walk of just a specific area. Here's some info about Slow Art which gives you a chance to see art in a new way. I'd suggest taking time to view 5 or so pieces and bring a journal with you. Go downstairs to the cafe or nearby after and write a little blurb about your experience with viewing. Write down any research you want to do, about styles or the artist or art history. Come back the next Friday and view the piece again, just for a minute or so. Then move on to this week's 5 pieces. Obviously this may be more difficult if you're in the county but you can choose the interval.

Look to your local library. They often have classes or speakers or other free programs. I know St. Louis Public Library even has a concert series.

Try Everyday Watercolor to learn to paint, or hand lettering or something else creative. You will spend some nights at home painting and then you can treat yourself to a visit to St. Louis Art Supply now and then to buy supplies and maybe read and chill in their new cafe/lounge space.

And good luck to you and your sobriety!

This is super awesome--thank you. I imagine there's a good chance you already read it if you're doing this project, but Mapping Decline by Colin Gordon (U of Iowa guy) is awesome. Highly recommended for a long-term perspective on how St. Louis changed in the 20th century, and the myriad causes.

StL Public libraries has it, and I'm sure WashU does as well. Keep up the good work!

For what it's worth, I was a bio major in undergrad, am currently in med school, and science was always my weakest section on the ACT. So she shouldn't feel bad about it :) From what I remember, most if it was interpreting graphs and data. I'd encourage her to just do as many practice science sections as possible, and work her way up to doing them timed. You can get a book like this that has a bunch of questions, and explanations for each answer.

They can't leave quick enough. I'm not a fan of publicly supporting stadiums and their owner's personal wealth.

worth a read.
http://www.amazon.com/Public-Dollars-Private-Stadiums-Building/dp/0813533430/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y

http://www.amazon.com/Field-Schemes-Stadium-Swindle-Expanded/dp/0803260164/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1

The county library has a good (slightly dated) book on the VP organization called The St. Louis Veiled Prophet Celebration: Power on Parade, 1877-1995, if you're interested in learning more about it.

Wouldn't it be funny if your simple act of sharing a local treat changed the course of Korean food culture? I wonder if this would ship to South Korea?

Post has a good story on it
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_3920399e-0ec0-11e0-b6d8-0017a4a78c22.html
looks like they'll need to add another chapter

http://www.amazon.com/Under-Influence-Unauthorized-Anheuser-Busch-Dynasty/dp/0380718472

I question your perception of reality, though if you know of a respectable economic study that supports this sort of investment, I am open to learning something new.

I strongly recommend this book! https://www.amazon.com/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Enjoy-Flying/dp/0140278370

As a former grad student in Near Eastern Studies, I'd suggest you don't go into reading the Qur'an cold turkey, if you're just doing it to be more well rounded (and not for religious purposes).

This (http://www.amazon.com/Koran-Very-Short-Introduction/dp/0192853449/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407422812&sr=1-12&keywords=introduction+to+the+qur%27an) might be a worthwhile endeavor, and understanding it's compositional process sheds light on the content of the suras.

> The city has been tremendously resilient and that has a lot to do with how it was built. The question may be what unpredictable change is coming that the county can't predict and is it built in a resilient way that will let it be able to survive that sort of change?

You might enjoy the book The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb.

You should read The People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn as a place to start.

https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States/dp/0060838655

Sounds like you have not read The Art of Biblical Narrative.

A source

"Jewish whiteness became American whiteness after WWII."

That's the line that was pushed by the real estate developers who wanted them demolished in order to decrease supply and thereby raise rents Downtown. The book to read about this is The Gateway Arch: A Biography.

I'd consider this book a must-read

So it's the Internet, where everyone's an expert on everything, but I'm actually an expert here, like for real. It's my job.

Of course I can't just tell you you're wrong and expect you to believe me, so here are multiple serious pieces that show (empirically) that you are incorrect:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Imperial-Presidency-Arthur-Schlesinger/dp/0618420010

http://www.jstor.org/stable/27552187?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

http://users.polisci.wisc.edu/kmayer/Professional/Executive%20Orders%20and%20Presidential%20Power.pdf

https://pages.wustl.edu/files/pages/imce/rogowski/post-office-distribution.pdf

[This is a great read also.] (http://www.amazon.com/Rip-Heaven-Memoir-Murder-Aftermath/dp/0451210530)

Edit (TL;DR); On the night of April 4, 1991, during a spring-break family vacation to St. Louis, Cummins's 19-year-old brother, Tom, and his two female cousins were attacked while walking on the abandoned Old Chain of Rocks Bridge. During the attack, the girls were raped; afterward, all three were pushed off the bridge by the four assailants. Tom survived; the girls did not. Cummins presents a mesmerizing, highly balanced memoir of the events, writing in the third person to give readers "an intimate knowledge of each facet of the story." She introduces her own family, referring to herself by her childhood nickname, and then does the same for each of the assailants, thoughtfully painting an in-depth portrait of each character without ever passing judgment. Moreover, she takes what could be cold, dry factual information from "court documents, police records, electronic media" and her own interviews and deftly weaves them into a compelling, novel-like account. She explores the family's initial horror over the police holding Tom as a suspect for this crime that made national headlines. (One of the attackers wound up with a 30-year plea; the others are currently on death row.) For someone so closely related to a crime victim to strike such a fine balance in chronicling it is a highly admirable feat. Cummins's noble account will ultimately draw readers into all sides of the story. 8 pages of photos not seen by PW.
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