Post-Dispatch photos: Sunday, December 18, 2011
Date: 12/18/2011 Album ID: 1381501
Photos by Christian Gooden/St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Adam Sage, right, founder of the Missouri Ballet Theatre, directs  his dancers during a rehearsal of an upcoming production of the Nutcracker at the Edison Theater Washington University's campus Tuesday Dec. 13, 2011. Sage has had a long career in ballet.
Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com
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Adam Sage, right, founder of the Missouri Ballet Theatre, directs a rehearsal of an upcoming production of the Nutcracker with help from ballet master Robert Philander-Valentine, left, at the Edison Theater on the campus of Washington University Tuesday Dec. 13, 2011. Sage has had a long career in dance.
Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com
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Eugene and Julia Field. Eugene Field was born Sept. 2, 1850, in his family home at 634 South Broadway in St. Louis. In 1873, he married Julia Comstock of St. Joseph, Mo. They had eight children, three of whom died in childhood. Eugene Field was one of the nation's first newspaper columnists, and was writing a column entitled Sharps and Flats for the Chicago Morning News when he died in 1895. He is best known for his poetry, especially poems for children. Among them are Little Boy Blue, Wynken, Blynken and Nod, and The Duel, his tale of the battle between the gingham dog and the calico cat. (Post-Dispatch)
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Henry Gerling, superintendent of instruction for the St. Louis Public Schools, accepts a gift of Eugene Field's bed in June 1936. Field wrote some of his poems in the bed, and died in it on Nov. 2, 1895. His family gave the bed to the museum. With Gerling is Mrs. F.W. Kemper, chairwoman of the Americanism committee of the American Legion Auxiliary in St. Louis. Jesse Henry, the insurance agent who led the restoration effort, obtained the bed from Field's heirs and arranged for the auxiliary to present it. (Post-Dispatch)
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Ruth Foster, a daughter of Eugene Field, stands at the door to her father's birthplace during a snowstorm on Dec. 18, 1936, grand opening of the restored home. The first children to enter were students at Eugene Field School, 4466 Olive Street, which had been built in 1900 -- one of many schools across the country named in honor of the poet. The boy to the left of the police officer is John Scholz, who became curator of the Eugene Field House from 1971 to 1992. (Post-Dispatch)
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Paul J. McKee, Jr., of McEagle Properties, LLC, interviews with St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporters at his office near downtown St. louis on Tuesday, December 6, 2011. Photo by Erik M. Lunsford elunsford@post-dispatch.com
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Paul J. McKee, Jr., of McEagle Properties, LLC, interviews with St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporters at his office near downtown St. louis on Tuesday, December 6, 2011. Photo by Erik M. Lunsford elunsford@post-dispatch.com
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Subira Murshid helps secure the graduation cap on her grandson Jelani Murshid-Jackson, 25,  Saturday Dec. 17, 2011 before his graduation from University of Missouri St. Louis.   Murshid-Jackson has cerebral palsy and did not speak until age 4. He transfered from University of Central Missouri to UMSL in 2009. I've been counting down the days all year, he said of graduating. 
Emily Rasinski,  erasinski@post-dispatch.com
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This year has been tough on my financially,s said Jermelia Clemons  of South County who brought her son Cortez Sheppard,5, to The 52nd Annual Geison Family Christmas Dinner Saturday, December 17, 2011, at the Machinsts Hall in Bridgeton, Mo.  The Gieson Family Christmas Dinner typically feeds thousands of people in need each year. When the Joan and Frank Gieson married, they brought 7 homeless people home for their first Gieson Family Christmas Dinner in 1959. Lee Pa, owner of Happy China restaurant provides all the food. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
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Joan Gieson samples and approves the sweet potatoes served at The 52nd Annual Geison Family Christmas Dinner Saturday, December 17, 2011, at the Machinsts Hall in Bridgeton, Mo.  The Gieson Family Christmas Dinner typically feeds thousands of people in need each year. When the Joan and Frank Gieson married, they brought 7 homeless people home for their first Gieson Family Christmas Dinner in 1959. Lee Pa, owner of Happy China restaurant provides all the food. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
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I didn't know I could do that !  said a surprised Jervon Moore who participated in a balancing act with performer Christoph Zurcher at The 52nd Annual Geison Family Christmas Dinner Saturday, December 17, 2011, at the Machinsts Hall in Bridgeton, Mo.  The Gieson Family Christmas Dinner typically feeds thousands of people in need each year. When the Joan and Frank Gieson married, they brought 7 homeless people home for their first Gieson Family Christmas Dinner in 1959. Lee Pa, owner of Happy China restaurant provides all the food. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
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Decorations for Hanukkah line the kitchen in the Chesterfield home of Stuart and Barb Radloff on Friday December 2, 2011.
Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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A menorah napkin ring is seen in a dining room decorated for Hanukkah inside the Chesterfield home of Stuart and Barb Radloff on Friday December 2, 2011.
Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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Menorahs of all shapes and sizes decorate the living room for Hanukkah inside the Chesterfield home of Stuart and Barb Radloff on Friday December 2, 2011.
Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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An oil lamp is among the living room decorations for Hanukkah that fill the Chesterfield home of Stuart and Barb Radloff on Friday December 2, 2011.
Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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Decorations for Hanukkah line the kitchen in the Chesterfield home of Stuart and Barb Radloff on Friday December 2, 2011.
Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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Decorations for Hanukkah line the kitchen in the Chesterfield home of Stuart and Barb Radloff on Friday December 2, 2011.
Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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Peanuts comic decorations mingle with the blue ribbon of Hanukkah on a wine rack inside the Chesterfield home of Stuart and Barb Radloff on Friday December 2, 2011.
Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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Stuart and Barb Radloff and their daughter Jessica Radloff in the foyer of their Hanukkah decorated Chesterfield home on Friday December 2, 2011.
Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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Nelly (center) talks about his new recording school, the Vatterott College ex'treme Institute, alongside Executive Director Carl Nappa (left) and CEO and President Pam Bell (right) on Wednesday, November 30, 2011, at Laclede's Landing in downtown St. Louis.
Photo by Johnny Andrews, jandrews@post-dispatch.com
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