The Winter School
[Ecole St. Louis—St. Paul, Minnesota; l957]“We…!” [We being: my brother and I] were a team, that is, we were quite the team growing up in the inner city of St Paul, Minnesota, during the l950s; we wrestled with the long drawn out winters of the late fifties on our way to school, Ecole St. Louis.My mother, a meatpacker, who worked at the ‘Swift & Co.,’ in South St. Paul, across the Mississippi River—the stockyards, that is, was the biggest in the USA, next to Chicago’s I he.