2943: An Immigrant Girl's Childhood in St. Louis
by Millicent Petrov Shyne
Rags, old iron. With the cry of the ragman calling for secondhand goods, enter the poor but jubilant world of Millie Petrov, an immigrant girl whose parents traded the harsh Eastern European peasant life for a new beginning in America. Visit the St. Louis of the 1920s and this bustling immigrant neighborhood, where the clatter of streetcars is background music for the colorful family who li...(more)
