Carol and Keillor

Yesterday I met St. Paul Carol for the first time at Nina's Cafe in the Blair Arcade. Downstairs the bookstore owned by Garrison Keillor was having a neighborhood Open House. Garrison autographed books for hours and here he is with Carol as he signs her books for her. For more pictures of the Open House which was very crowded, click here, walk in and join the festivities!

On the Opening of a Bookstore On Western and Selby

by Garrison Keillor

On the high hill above the river in St. Paul,

Against the advice of cautious engineers,

The Archbishop insisted his Cathedral should stand tall

And French, and so it has for eighty years,

Back behind its stone magnificience, on drowsy streets

Of gabled houses, brick and stone and wood,

Are a thousand stories of the daily feats

Of courage that are love and parenthood.

Each lighted window represents an enterprise

By strangers whom I feel I ought to know

And so, in a cellar with windows to the skies,

I sit and read heroic tales of long ago.

A cold fall day and we are strangers, far apart.

But in these books I find some secrets of your heart.

GK,11/18/2006

Today in Minnesota History: - 1981 Heavy snow in Minneapolis causes the fabric of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome to collapse and rip. (Reference: mhs.org)