In this sequel to his prior book Growing up in Old North St. Louis, Patrick J. Kleaver totally updates and expands his City Dweller: A Lifetime Living and Working in St. Louis that was originally published in 2013.

He continues the deeply personal account of his and his parents’ lives and explores other neighborhoods in the city of St. Louis, Missouri in which he and they lived, the Catholic churches they attended, and his day-to-day life, with a special look at the economy, music and TV shows of the 1970s and 1980s.

He details what it was like to work for an increasingly shrinking Federal Government agency and one that kept growing by leaps and bounds. He delves into the history of long-gone areas such as the Mill Creek Valley, Laclede Town and Lucas Place and totally redone neighborhoods such as Columbus Square.

Sharing the history of various Catholic churches, some long forgotten and others totally revitalized, he includes rarely seen photographs of the interiors and exteriors of those that were closed. Photographs of houses and other buildings that have been torn down are also included as well as a detailed glimpse of what the downtown St. Louis shopping area had been and is now. Several long-forgotten cemeteries that existed in or near downtown and the city’s Central West End wrap up this fascinating look at St. Louis.

Growing up in Old North St. Louis by Patrick J. Kleaver is also on Whizbuzz Books.

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35 years ago, one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of humanity took place – an explosion at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. This accident forever changed the way people think about nuclear energy. At that time, nuclear power was considered the only and safest way to provide humanity with sufficient energy. But the accident threat at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant forced humanity to reconsider priorities and realize the degree of danger.

Chornobyl. The name of this old Ukrainian town has forever become associated with the danger of radioactive contamination. However, the region around the station, which is now called the Chornobyl Zone, is a beautiful forest land in northern Ukraine. ChOrnobyl. It is O, not E. Writing “Chernobyl” is a warped spelling from the Russian language. But this is a Ukrainian town. And therefore the correct spelling is “Chornobyl”.

Translated from the ancient Ukrainian language, Chornobyl is a Bitter Wormwood. Many people see this as an ominous omen from ancient times. But unfortunately, the precursors of a catastrophe were formed only in the second half of the twentieth century, and this was a tragic sum of human factors that could have been avoided until the last moment. And that is why every person on this planet should be aware of their responsibility to nature and strive to create, not destroy.

This photo magazine is a special edition of a travel magazine dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the accident. Photos and drawings will show you the life of the Chornobyl zone before the accident, how the nuclear power plant was built, the difficult days of the accident and liquidation, as well as how the Chornobyl zone lives now. Join our walk through one of the most abandoned places on our planet.

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