Most St. Louis suburbs treat summer as a scattered set of one-off events. Florissant treats it as a schedule. Saturdays belong to St. Ferdinand Park. The last Wednesday of every month belongs to rue St. Francois. Once you learn that cadence, the whole season stops feeling like a calendar to check and starts feeling like a routine you fall into.
That's the argument of this post. Not that Florissant has "a lot going on" in July and August, but that the town runs on two repeating anchor nights, and everything else fills in around them. If you've lived here a while and still find yourself asking your neighbor what's happening this weekend, this is the pattern you're missing.
The Saturday Anchor: Music Under the Stars
The city's Music Under the Stars concert series runs weekly at
