Mimi Garstang was Division Director and Missouri State Geologist for the Missouri Department of Resources, Division of Geology and Land Survey from 1979 to 2008.
St. Louis is a city with a rich heritage of brick architecture. Home to some of the largest and most innovative clay working companies of the nineteenth century, you can still see some of the finest examples of brick work ever produced all over the city and region. Today the city's brick heritage is under threat by neglect, brick theft and urban renewal.