Ken Steinhoff, Cape Girardeau Central High School Class of 1965, was a photographer for The Tiger and The Girardot, and was on the staff of The Capaha Arrow and The Sagamore at Southeast Missouri State University. He worked as a photographer / reporter (among other things) at The Jackson Pioneer and The Southeast Missourian.
He transferred to Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, his junior year, and served as photo editor of The Ohio University Post. He was also chief photographer of The Athens Messenger.
He was chief photographer of the Gastonia (NC) Gazette for a long 18 months until he could escape to The Palm Beach Post, where he served as a staff photographer, director of photography, editorial operations manager and telecommunications manager. He accepted a buyout in 2008, after 35 years at the paper.
Most of the stories are about growing up in a small Midwestern town on the Mississippi River, but there’s no telling what you might run into.
Please comment on the articles when you see I have left out a bit of history, forgotten a name or when your memory of a circumstance conflicts with mine.
(My mother said her stories improved after all the folks who could contradict died off.)
Your information helps to make this a wonderful archive and may end up in book form.
Ken, I don’t have the bottom 3 layouts on exhibit. We have room. Most of the layouts are in the Big School Gallery.
Do you have copies of them? If not, I’ll bring them with me when I come back your way.
Can’t wait to be part of the not-real audience.
I’ve just about finished the slide/video show. You can swing by the house and see the raw version.
(This is NOT a variation on the old “Come up and see my etchings” line.)
I do not have copies. I will leave space and will add when you get here.
What an incredible body of work!
i remember when this incident with phillip clark happened..wasn’t the location on sprigg street near the university?. my mom and phillips mother were friends
Oct. 1, 1966, at 530 North Sprigg. Here’s a link to The Missourian story about Phillip Odell Clark and his murder of Zola Clifton.
I would like to receive your pots.
Thanks,
Joan
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Enjoy.
phillips mother’s name was lillie hautler? spelling may be wrong.she was a friend of my mom’s. sad story