Discover the St. Louis you drive past everyday without even realizing history happened here.

Hello. I'm Don. Thanks for checking out my page.

Even though I'm from St. Louis, I spent about 25 years working as a television newscaster all around the country; mostly as a state legislative correspondent and crime reporter. Won some pretty big awards for my work, but I always wanted to find and tell my own stories and break free from the ties to the daily news cycle.

When I moved back home to take care of my Dad as he wrestled with Alzheimer's, the city I came back to was hardly recognizable to me.

This site uses the canvas of the city I once knew to help me tell the stories about the past of one of America's great "legacy cities."

I'm really into history, so say hi. Shoot me some stories and let's go back in time and see where it happened.

About Highway Farty

Today we know it as Interstate 64. The great connector road from Downtown to the far Western Suburbs.

But for 75 of its hundred years, all of St. Louis simply called it Highway Forty.

Or....FARTY.

Listen to an old time St. Louisan talk and you'll hear it....a distinctive speech pattern that sets them unmistakably apart from, say a New Yarker.

Sadly, that uniqueness is disappearing.

This video history project pays tribute to the unique legacy of one of America's great Legacy Cities.

Watch a brief introduction by Don here:

Your Guide on this Rust Belt Road Trip in and around St. Louis: