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St. Louisan Terry Baker Mulligan’s New Memoir Recounts Experience Of Growing Up In Harlem

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When born and bred New Yorker Terry Baker Mulligan moved to Saint Louis in the early seventies, she was met with pre-conceived notions about her hometown.

She says her new friends and colleagues thought New Yorkers were rude and the city was filled with trouble and uneasiness.

After leaving her teaching job in 1974 to raise her growing family, she began a 35 year journey to preserve her life and focus on the goodness of the place she once called home and still holds dear.

The resulting memoir, “Sugar Hill – Where The Sun Rose Over Harlem,” idealizes her youth spent in the Sugar Hill neighborhood during the fifties and sixties.

St Louis Public Radio’s Erin Williams spoke with Mulligan about how her book opened the door to her family’s past and how it sheds a positive light on an uneasy time for the city.

For more information about Terry Baker Mulligan, visit her website

Alex is the executive producer of "St. Louis on the Air" at St. Louis Public Radio.
Mary Edwards came to St. Louis Public Radio in 1974, just after finishing her Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She has served the station in a number of capacities over the years. From 1988-2014 she also taught an undergraduate class in radio production at Webster University. Mary was inducted into the St. Louis Media History Foundation Media Hall of Fame in April, 2017 and received the Gateway Media Literacy Partners' Charles Klotzer Media Literacy Award in 2012. Mary retired from St. Louis Public Radio in 2018, but still serves the station as a St. Louis Symphony Producer.

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