In her introduction, Elaine Viets shares with the reader glimpses from her intimate acquaintance with St. Louis, recalling people and places that have made the city special.
Quinta Scott's photographs have been featured in Route 66 and in The Eads Bridge. She and Elaine Viets have recently co-authored St. Louis: Home on the River. Elaine Viets writes a humor column for the St. Louis Post- Dispatch and is the author of a book on tape, Censored Viets: Stories You Couldn't Read in the Newspaper.