Doug Houser

Retired autoworker. Maplewood resident since 1975. Advocate of the Arts and Historic Preservation.

For those of you just tuning in, I'll repeat that a little over a year ago I made a visit to the archives belonging...

A Look at the First Ten Pages from Album One A little over a year ago I made a visit to the archives belonging to...

A short time ago I received an email from the magician Wendy Wylde. She had come into possession of a deck of cards that...

Another Trove Comes To Light! It has taken two years before the fourth part of Mr. Turnbull's story arrived but what a story it is! ...

For about the past 14 years, once a year I have created a composite photograph featuring historic images from my digital collection. They usually...

Perhaps it is because this is the very coldest time of the year for us that this previous post came to mind? This is...

As the long-time historian of our small town, Maplewood MO, the unfamiliar might think that I have to dig hard to keep coming up...

About two years ago, cancer took the life of a joyful and wonderful person. She was a former Maplewoodian named Nancy Fennell Hawkins. Her...

A tintype of Samuel F. Silence from 1870. Samuel Fisher Silence was the father of Charles S. Silence who was featured in an earlier post. ...

Dear Readers, A while back, for a decade or so, Esley Hamilton (the historian working out of the St. Louis County Parks Dept., now retired)...

This is a reshare (new word for me) of an annual Maplewood event that my wife and I and many others enjoy. You've still...

The following post is 100% AI free. I have known for 23 years or so that someone with the last name Silence was somehow connected...

It is Halloween once again. No new ghosts have been reported in the past year. That's either good news or bad depending on your...

A Tale of Two Albums - Part Seven Summer is a distraction from my self-appointed position as historian of Maplewood. Long hours of daylight, the...

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