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The Saint Paul Almanac is the only guidebook to Minnesota's capital city, St. Paul, as well as an experiment in democratic publishing—a literary campfire around which the diverse Saint Paul community gathers to share our stories. Read local residents' reviews of our ma-and-pa restaurants and our corner bars. Grab a copy of the Almanac and come with us to explore St. Paul's festivals, parades, and exhibits. Celebrate our small-town manners and our big-city ways. Sample our poetry, fiction, trivia and recipes! St. Paul is as much a state of mind as a place. Come on in!
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By Tom Goldstein
 June 1st, 2009—There are a number of youth baseball programs in Saint Paul, from city leagues and traveling teams to a handful of Little League organizations. Among these is Midway Baseball, a former Little League affiliate started by the Midway area Dunning Boosters in 1989. Last year, it included more than 275 participants, an all-time high. What attracts so many kids to the program? One reason is undoubtedly Jim Kelley Field (named for the longtime director of the baseball league), a beautifully manicured stadium built in 1990... Read More
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By Ronee McHendrik
 May 26th, 2009—In the early 1940s, we lived on the East Side of Saint Paul near Hazelwood and Seventh streets, where streetcars stopped almost in front of our house. One of my earliest memories is of waiting for the streetcar to bring my grandfather and aunts home from their downtown jobs at the central post office and The Emporium and Schuneman's, two of the large department stores. In those days Minnesota had no shopping malls, and Dayton's was a Minneapolis store. In Saint Paul, downtown Seventh Street... Read More
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By Eva Palma-Zuniga
 May 20th, 2009—It's great to help one person at a time, that definitely is needed, but we want to see changes that affect how government conducts itself, how people treat immigrants. We have to look not only at legal issues that immigrants face but the political and public sentiment against them," Contreras Edin states. Contreras Edin is the executive director of Centro Legal, a nonprofit legal agency that has been providing legal services to the Latino community in Minnesota for over twenty-five years. Immigration is a current... Read More
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By Margaret Anzevino
 May 19th, 2009—As I knew it then, in September of 1938, Beaumont Street, on Railroad Island, was only three blocks long. We lived in the middle of the block between Bedford to the east and Burr to the west. And although it was only another block and a half from our house to Lincoln School, on Burr and Collins, my mother was not going to let me walk alone for my first day of kindergarten—that was how important it was to her that I be properly dropped... Read More
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By Donal Heffernan
 May 18th, 2009 As our Saint Paul Saints begin another season this year, here are a couple of stars from a bit ago. Ila Border, the first woman to play in organized baseball, and Darryl Strawberry, down on his luck from stardom from the Yankees. Both players earned the applause and joy of Saints fans in 1998. Here is a poem I wrote for owner Mike Veeck, a star of a person, for the Saints' Yearbook about these two amazing Saints, with a nod of thanks to John... Read More
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By Abram Sauer
 May 10th, 2009—A man with hair on his face's upper lip has a moustache. A moustache is not facial hair's natural form; neighboring regions must be maintained without fail, or the moustache will cease to be. Add hair to this same upper-lipped arrangement, and now it's a goatee, a beard, or something else. The first moustache on record appeared on a Scythian horseman around 300 BCE. Assuming he had the most advanced tools of his day, this Pazyryk rider enjoyed scraping a single, dull, possibly copper blade... Read More
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By Judith Niemi
 May 5th, 2009—When Carol Bly died at the end of 2007, obituaries and speakers at her memorial referred to her as a "lion of Minnesota letters" and said "one of the heavy lifters is gone." Carol Bly was not just an important writer—she was a presence, a force to be reckoned with, a voice being scathingly funny about the emperor's missing clothes. In Minnesota, many will remember that voice calling on writers not to be slick, to go deeper, to take on the big ones. Carol Bly... Read More
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By Chelsea DeArmond
 May 1st, 2009—Gone are the days when I could sneak out of the house to get a few groceries without even brushing my hair. Now I have to look decent because I know people will stare, smile, and wave at me the whole way. Ever since we bought an electric car, I feel like I'm a float in a parade wherever I go. When we first got it, I felt a little silly driving this contraption that looks like a cross between a golf cart and a... Read More
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Summer Flower Show – May 2-Oct 4, Marjorie McNeely Conservatory, Como Park
Music in Mears Park – Thursdays 6-9pm, June through August
Music and Movies, District del Sol – Late June to first week in August, Castillo Park
Taste of Minnesota – Jul 2-5, Harriet Island and Downtown
Dragon Festival and Dragon Boat Races – Jul 11-12, Lake Phalen
Highland Fest – Jul 17-19, Highland Village
Minnesota State Fair – Aug 27-Sep 7
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This activity is made possible, in part, by funds provided by the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council from an appropriation by the Minnesota Legislature.
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