In this fictional memoir, August Rick has his dream job working at the prominent Lemp Brewery as assistant to the vice-president. While working to launch the Falstaff Inn, the brewer’s restaurant at the upcoming 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, August reconnects with boyhood friend Lucas Gebhardt, a City Hall employee and follower of temperance philosophies in a city packed with breweries and saloons. As gang violence continues to climb around the city, another boyhood friend Edward Lally, a police detective, works to investigate the people behind the violence. August chronicles his life and times in the months before and during the great fair.
BIOGRAPHY Kevin and Vickie spend their retirement traveling, writing, and drawing. Kevin is the award-winning co-author of "The Architecture of Maritz & Young: Exceptional Historic Homes of St. Louis", and other books of fiction and non-fiction, newspaper articles, and other works he can no longer remember.
Vickie's art includes pen and ink, color pencil, and watercolors. She fashions many of her works into greeting cards.
