"Northern? Southern? Eastern? Western? St. Louis is all, and none, of the above?
For anyone who has ever called St. Louis home, the Mississippi River comes closest to grounding the city in a sense of place. Like St. Louis itself, the river tugs at our imagination, revealing little beneath its surface, as the swift current carries stories that reveal St. Louis to be unlike any other place in America.
Unmappable."
from "Map Quest" by Elizabeth Armstrong Hall (c) 2007 by St. Louis Magazine LLC
