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“What is that strange orb in the east”.   Finally some sun.  Here on campus, folks were taking photos by the lake this morning.

In September of 1956 I was enrolled in the eighth grade at 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 Laura 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 veteran and a drunk and he is your problem, not mine”. She then took her daughter and my five siblings into her house in Upsala above Ramlo Grocery. On October 1st, I rode my Schwinn from Ramlo Grocery to the Upsala school. I had earned the money for my shiny new red bike by delivering newspapers, both morning and evening, in our St. Louis Park neighborhood. Of course, that first day, someone let the air out of the tires. That evening I removed the lamp, the tank and the fenders from my bike. No one messed with the bike the second day of school.  Another plus related to this move was that 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 Live From Here show this week is a live show from St. Paul.  Musical guests include the Dirty Projectors, The Sklar Brothers and Madison Cunningham.  Enjoy the show.

“If you are going to expect, you must inspect”  Laura Ramlo