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Good morning from Collegeville,

In September of 1956 I was enrolled in the eighth grade at the Junior High in St. Louis Park. The previous month my mother had given birth to her sixth child and Dad was once more in trouble. My mother’s mother, Grama Ramlo, drove her 1952 Chevy from Upsala to our rented bungalow at 1620 Colorado Ave in St. Louis Park, put my dad in the back seat, drove to the VA Hospital in Minneapolis and said, “Here, he is a drunk and he is your problem, not mine”. She then took her daughter and my five siblings into her house in Upsala. On October 1st, I rode my Schwin from Ramlo Grocery to the Upsala school. I had earned the money for my shiny new red Schwin delivery newspapers in our St. Louis Park neighborhood. Of course someone let the air out of the tires. I did get out of the 10 hours of detention that I had accrued at school in St. Louis Park.

The next Monday, the student body was ushered into the school auditorium to watch game five of the World Series. We watched Don Larsen pitch the only perfect game in post-season major league baseball history. He’d had a disastrous game two, lasting only two innings and allowing four runs on four walks. When he reported to the locker room that day, Larsen was astonished to see the baseball tucked into his shoe by the manager Casey Stengel. He faced 27 batters that day and not a single one made it to base.

The APHC show this week is a live broadcast from the newly re-opened Saenger Theatre in New Orleans. Special guests include country/folk singer and songwriter Iris DeMent, vocal powerhouse Jearlyn Steele and singer Hilary Thavis. Plus the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott and Fred Newman will entertain us. The News From Lake Wobegon will wrap it up. Enjoy the show.

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