Photograph by Signature Studio
Raise your hand if you’ve been to Bumbershoot Aerial Arts, a drag show at the Grey Fox Pub, or the Saxquest Saxophone Museum.
Amanda Doyle has.
She’s been just about everywhere in the metro area, and her new book, Finally: A Locally Produced Guidebook to St. Louis by and for St. Louisans (stlguidebook.com), is a guide to some of our burg’s more obscure treasures. She and contributor Kerri Bonasch point out the haunts we know and love—plus plenty of others that you might have yet to check off your life list.
“It’s really easy when you live in the central corridor to forget all the fun things a little farther out,” says Doyle. “The Columbia Bottom Conservation Area has these long boardwalks that jut out over the wetlands; the day we went, a bunch of trumpeter swans were on one of the ponds—it was a transporting experience.”
Doyle, who will visit Left Bank Books (399 N. Euclid) on December 4 at 4 p.m., moved here in 1997 and promptly fell in love with the area. “There’s amazing stuff to see and do everywhere,” she says, “if you just dig a little.”
