Peter Hoffman, managing attorney for Legal Services of Eastern Missouir, will examine the legal framework that governs vacant and nuisance property in Missouri and explore why traditional public enforcement tools—while essential—often fall short of achieving timely stabilization and rehabilitation.
Amanda Clark, public historian with the Missouri Historical Society, will trace the cycles of reinvention that have defined Laclede's Landing by diving into how the neighborhood’s fortunes have shifted over time as well as how its story mirrors the evolving challenges of historic preservation today.
Nick Sacco, historian and curator, will share an exploration of pre-Civil War St. Louis through the daguerreotype photographs of Thomas Easterly that are housed at the Missouri Historical Society. No other photographer in St. Louis captured the city's built landscape of the 1840s and 1850s quite like Easterly.
Amanda Doyle and Cameron Collins, co-authors of the upcoming Forest Park book from Reedy Press, will explore the creation and preservation of Forest Park in St. Louis.
