When Interstate 55 cut its way through Soulard back in the early 1980s, residents turned the pie-shape parcel of land at 13th and Lynch streets into St. Louis' smallest park. At just four-tenths of an acre, Aboussie Park, named for the onetime leader of the Ninth Ward Democratic Organization, Martie J. "Murph" Aboussie, could easily be mistaken for a side yard of the neighboring Victorian on 13th Street. In fact, strolling every inch of its curving sidewalk -- past ferns, pine trees and... More »
