Embracing the Past: Stories of the people who live in historic districts

Charles St. Clair retired from the faculty of University of Missouri Extension in 2010 after assisting communities around the state with historic preservation projects for thirty years. He currently lives in a Kansas City suburb with his wife and two Old English Sheep dogs where he writes, paints and takes photographs. He is working on a book about a fictional small town in Kansas called Walnut Shade, a place where everyone knows everyone else and likes them just the same.