Post-Dispatch photos: Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Date: 5/8/2012 Album ID: 1469058
Photos by Christian Gooden/St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Photographs by staff photographers
A group from the St. Louis Language Immersion School leaves the World Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis' Central West End where the world's largest chess piece was dedicated on Monday, May 7, 2012. The king piece, measuring 14 feet 6 inches tall and 6 feet wide and weighing 2280 pounds, is made out of layered plywood that has been stained and sealed to sustain weather.
Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com
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Stan Musial watches as his wife Lillian Lil Musial's casket is carried into the Cathedral Basilica for a funeral Mass on Monday, May 7, 2012, in St. Louis. Mrs. Musial died Thursday at their home in Ladue. They were married about 72 years. Photo by Erik M. Lunsford elunsford@post-dispatch.com
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Portrait of Chef Gerard Craft, owner of Niche Restaurant in St. Louis, on Friday, May 4, 2012, in Benton Park.  Photo by Erik M. Lunsford elunsford@post-dispatch.com
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Chef Gerard Craft, owner of Niche Restaurant in St. Louis, works with his staff on Friday, May 4, 2012, in Benton Park.  Photo by Erik M. Lunsford elunsford@post-dispatch.com
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