A Vision of Joy - My personal reflection about our city’s most popular landmark
A Carillon History Lesson. A Vision of Joy I had a meeting with Thomas Joy the other day. If you don’t recognize the name, he is the son of William and Judith Joy. His family along with the Perrine’s who are cousins owned the Sentinel for a whole lot of years. Mrs. Joy, Jody to many, was a world traveler and her treks were written about in nearly every Sunday paper from the 1970s until about 2015. Then her stories were reprinted in our Express Magazine, a tabloid we used to replace the Parade magazine our subscribers used to love. I say “we” because it still feels like family to me. I worked there for twenty years: four years in late 80’s/early 90’s and from, 2005-2022 after my 13 year stint at the Riverfront Times in St. Louis. I worked a lot with Mrs. Joy. Although, I never got into the habit of calling her Jody since I was taught to call adults mister or mrs. At the Sentinel if you emailed Mrs Joy, you were emailing me. Mrs Joy never did move into the computer age. She t...