"Memphis Jim" wrote in message
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Bob, Is there a charge at the Science Museum? I honestly don't remember.

Memphis Jim


No charge at the Science Museum - but they do charge for some special
programs and Omnimax movies. The zoo, art museum, Botanical Garden and
history museum are supported by taxes. Which reminds me, anybody visiting
STL should see the botanical garden. Remarkable. And it's a world-famous
research institution.

St Louis is also home of the St Louis Symphony (a fine orchestra, and second
oldest in the country), and is the birthplace of TS Eliot (but he left and
moved to England), whose grandfather founded Washington University in St
Louis (WU has something like the 9th largest endowment among all
universities in the country). Other interesting points: an old German city,
there were German-language newspapers until the mid-50s. When I moved to St
Louis in 1974 there was still a radio station that broadcast in German. Also
hometown of some of the best Italian restaurants in the country, and of Joe
Garagiola and Yogi Berra.

And in the winter the temperature can go to zero, and in the summer to 100.
Or higher. August is a good time to go fishing somewhere else.

Bob