Word: kimmswick
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...sometimes called the Rousing of America--the creation by developers such as James Rouse of entertaining renovated shopping areas like Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston or Harborplace in Baltimore, Md. Now you can find the Rousing impulse in small towns such as Cairo or tiny hamlets such as Kimmswick, Mo., which are exposing every brick and cobblestone in an attempt to cash in on the current prosperity...
...rummaging back into their history to reassert their unique identity and attract tourists. Hannibal, Mo., has become a re-created Mark Twain birthplace. In Nauvoo, Ill., Mormons whose families lived there more than a century ago are returning to reconstruct their old temple. And the hotel owner in Kimmswick told us of the town's plan to re-enact the Civil War battle even though, he conceded, it was "just a skirmish...
...interesting acquisition to the Peabody Museum has just been placed on exhibition in the mound-builders hall on the first floor of the Museum. It is an ancient stone grave, dug up at Kimmswick, about 20 miles from St. Louis. The grave is constructed of six slabs of limestone, and is hardly three feet long, and about two feet deep. In the grave are two male skeletons. The skulls were placed on top of the other bones, and between them was a pottery fool vessel. The whole has been reconstructed by Mr. D. I. Bushnell, Jr., who, with...
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