Now and Then
Dreaming of Minnie Ha Ha
Family keepsakes provide evidence of Sunset Hills' farming families and Native American roots beside the Meramec River.
Did you ever have one of those recurring dreams? You're driving down the road, heading for a curve and the river is just there on the side--it all feels very familiar-- and then you wake up? That is the feeling I had when my mom and I drove south on old Gravois Road, just this side of the Meramec River. There is no longer a bridge crossing to the next town of Fenton, since it is being rebuilt. But if you turn right just prior to the river, you are in Minnie Ha Ha Park which is the newest addition to the City of Sunset Hills' 70 acres of park properties. "Minnie has a rich history of recreation, including a dance hall and boat dock in the '20s and '30s and provided a place of passage over the Meramec River for decades," said Gerald Brown, …
R May
7:29 am on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
"we might ponder our ancestors and how they came before to prepare this home for us" and me, I hope Gerald Brown remembers these words as the new trail wonders along the Meramec river past private and public land. Time will only tell because no one else is talking more ›