St. Louis hosted their own World’s Fair in 1904–an exposition with a Grand Basin with white palaces of Fine Arts, Electricity, Agriculture, Machinery, Liberal Arts, and Mines; statuary by Daniel Chester French; a Lagoon, international villages, a midway, and even the original Ferris Wheel. In May, the focus in that city will be on the World’s Fair held in Chicago a decade earlier.
On Friday, May 11, the St. Louis Park Community Education program will offer a presentation on the “Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893” by military historian Dan Hartman.
The event will be held in the Little Theater at the Lenox Community Center from 1-3:30 pm. There is a $10 fee for non-members.