WE ARE ST. LOUIS · YEAR-IN-REVIEW
What 1,200 contributions taught us about the city.
Year one of We Are St. Louis — what people sent in, what they wrote about, and what the project will do next.
[BYLINE · DIRECTOR, COMMUNITY HISTORY]
March 18, 2026
6 min read
We Are St. Louis is the Missouri Historical Society's open community-history campaign. In its first year, more than 1,200 St. Louisans contributed photographs, letters, recipes, audio recollections, and family objects.
What people sent in
The contributions ranged from a 1968 wedding album from Soulard to a grandmother's audio recording of how she met her husband at a church picnic in 1953. Some were objects we expected. Many were not.
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