Hoosiers and Scrubby Dutch, Second Edition by Jim Merkel

Hoosiers and Scrubby Dutch, Second Edition by Jim Merkel

On the South Side, there lived a tactless TV guy who had a way of getting tossed out of everything on camera, from the old VP Fair to Bill Clinton's 1996 local re-election victory party. On the South Side, there dwelt a collector of ancient vacuum cleaners, none of which worked when he demonstrated them before millions of guffawing viewers watching on national television. And on the South Side, a beer baron tried to fight off Prohibition with a high-class, three-sided beer hall. It's all in the second edition of Hoosiers and Scrubby Dutch: St. Louis's South Side. The first edition captured the essence of South St. Louis, with its tales of women scrubbing steps every Saturday, the yummy brain sandwich, and a nationally known gospel performer who ran a furniture store in the Cherokee neighborhood. These stories, along with the new ones that fill the second edition, convey what gives a truly unique place its rough but charming personality. The resultHoly Hoosiers!-is an edition that's even better than the first!

St. Louis-based freelance writer and author Jim Merkel fell in love with lighthouses in 1995, when he and his wife, Lorraine, made the first of numerous visits to the Apostle Islands. He started writing The Lighthouse on Devils Island around 1997 and basically finished it in 2003. The book stayed unread in a computer file until 2015, when he tweaked the manuscript and self-published it. In 2001, he published Majestic Lights: The Apostle Islands Lighthouses, a nonfiction book about the lighthouses of the Apostle Islands. He is the author of three books published by the traditional royalty publisher Reedy Press, Beer, Brats, and Baseball: St. Louis Germans; and Hoosiers and Scrubby Dutch: St. Louis's South Side; and The Making of an Icon: The Dreamers, The Schemers, and the Hard Hats Who Built the Gateway Arch. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch named The Making of an Icon one of the fifty best books of 2014. Merkel has made his living as a journalist since he graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1973. He writes for several St. Louis outlets, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and its website, stltoday.com.

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ISBN 13	9781933370620
ISBN 10	1933370629
Title	Hoosiers and Scrubby Dutch, Second Edition
Author	Jim Merkel
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Reedy Press
Year published	2014-10-01
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.