WEBVTT 00:27.000 --> 00:43.000 align:start Cheers and applause 00:43.000 --> 00:48.000 align:start Cheers and applause 00:48.000 --> 00:48.000 align:start >> ADIA: HEY, TWIN CITES! 00:48.000 --> 00:49.000 align:start WELCOME TO TV TAKEOVER! 00:49.000 --> 00:50.000 align:start HOW ARE YOU ALL DOING 00:50.000 --> 00:51.000 align:start TONIGHT?! 00:51.000 --> 00:52.000 align:start CHEERS 00:52.000 --> 00:54.000 align:start >> Adia: GREAT. 00:54.000 --> 00:55.000 align:start I'M ADIA MORRIS AND WE'RE 00:55.000 --> 00:56.000 align:start THROWING A TV PARTY HERE LIVE 00:56.000 --> 00:58.000 align:start IN THE TPT STUDIOS, CO-HOSTED 00:58.000 --> 00:59.000 align:start BY THE FABULOUS ST. PAUL 00:59.000 --> 01:03.000 align:start ALMANAC! 01:03.000 --> 01:05.000 align:start CHEERS 01:05.000 --> 01:06.000 align:start IT'S ALL PART OF A BRAND-NEW 01:06.000 --> 01:08.000 align:start PUBLIC TELEVISION EXPERIENCE. 01:08.000 --> 01:09.000 align:start WE'VE ASKED FIVE OF THE TWIN 01:09.000 --> 01:11.000 align:start CITIES MOST DARING AND 01:11.000 --> 01:13.000 align:start INVENTIVE CREATIVE FOLKS TO 01:13.000 --> 01:14.000 align:start TAKE OVER OUR AIR AND FOR THE 01:14.000 --> 01:19.000 align:start NEXT HOUR, ST. PAUL ALMANAC IS 01:19.000 --> 01:19.000 align:start GOING TO DO JUST THAT. 01:19.000 --> 01:20.000 align:start WE'RE GOING TO HEAR LOTS OF 01:20.000 --> 01:21.000 align:start STORIES THAT HAVE BEEN 01:21.000 --> 01:23.000 align:start PUBLISHED IN THE ALMANAC OVER 01:23.000 --> 01:24.000 align:start THE YEARS, READ BY THE AUTHORS 01:24.000 --> 01:26.000 align:start THEMSELVES AND FILMED IN A ST. 01:26.000 --> 01:26.000 align:start PAUL LOCATION THAT'S IMPORTANT 01:26.000 --> 01:29.000 align:start TO THE STORY. 01:29.000 --> 01:30.000 align:start WE'LL ALSO HAVE A FEW LIVE 01:30.000 --> 01:31.000 align:start POETRY READINGS RIGHT HERE IN 01:31.000 --> 01:33.000 align:start OUR STUDIO! 01:33.000 --> 01:34.000 align:start BE SURE TO FOLLOW ALONG WITH 01:34.000 --> 01:35.000 align:start US ON TWITTER THROUGHOUT THE 01:35.000 --> 01:37.000 align:start NIGHT USING THE HASHTAG 01:37.000 --> 01:38.000 align:start TVTAKEOVER AND YOU COULD SEE 01:38.000 --> 01:39.000 align:start YOUR TWEETS POPPING UP 01:39.000 --> 01:40.000 align:start ON-SCREEN THROUGHOUT THE 01:40.000 --> 01:41.000 align:start BROADCAST! 01:41.000 --> 01:43.000 align:start WE ALSO HAVE DJ KOOL AKHIEM 01:43.000 --> 01:46.000 align:start HANGING OUT WITH US, SPINNING 01:46.000 --> 01:48.000 align:start MUSIC FOR THE SHOW. 01:48.000 --> 01:49.000 align:start Cheers and applause 01:49.000 --> 01:53.000 align:start AND ARTIST TACOUMBA PAINTING A 01:53.000 --> 01:57.000 align:start MURAL RIGHT OVER HERE! 01:57.000 --> 01:59.000 align:start Cheers and applause 01:59.000 --> 02:00.000 align:start BUT BEFORE WE GO ANY FURTHER, 02:00.000 --> 02:01.000 align:start LET'S HEAR WHAT THE ST. PAUL 02:01.000 --> 02:10.000 align:start ALMANAC IS ALL ABOUT. 02:10.000 --> 02:12.000 align:start >> St. PAUL ALMANAC IS A 02:12.000 --> 02:13.000 align:start LITERARY ORGANIZATION, WE DO A 02:13.000 --> 02:14.000 align:start LOT OF THINGS EVERY YEAR. 02:14.000 --> 02:16.000 align:start WE PUBLISH A BOOK CALLED THE 02:16.000 --> 02:17.000 align:start St. PAUL ALMANAC. 02:17.000 --> 02:18.000 align:start WE DO IT ANNUALLY. 02:18.000 --> 02:19.000 align:start THIS WILL BE OUR NINTH BOOK 02:19.000 --> 02:20.000 align:start THIS YEAR. 02:20.000 --> 02:22.000 align:start THEY'RE STORIES CREATED ABOUT 02:22.000 --> 02:22.000 align:start St. PAUL, POEMS ABOUT 02:22.000 --> 02:23.000 align:start St. PAUL OR THINGS THAT 02:23.000 --> 02:24.000 align:start COULD EXIST IN St. PAUL. 02:24.000 --> 02:26.000 align:start BUT THAT'S NOT ALL WE DO. 02:26.000 --> 02:28.000 align:start WE ALSO DO SEVERAL DIFFERENT 02:28.000 --> 02:30.000 align:start READINGS SERIES, WE DO A 02:30.000 --> 02:31.000 align:start COMMUNITY EDITOR PROJECT, WE 02:31.000 --> 02:33.000 align:start PUBLISH OTHER BOOKS, AND WE'RE 02:33.000 --> 02:35.000 align:start ALL ABOUT CREATING DIFFERENT 02:35.000 --> 02:35.000 align:start OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE TO 02:35.000 --> 02:37.000 align:start SHARE THEIR STORIES AND HAVE 02:37.000 --> 02:46.000 align:start THEIR VOICES HEARD. 02:46.000 --> 02:47.000 align:start >> IT'S AMAZING WHAT COMES OUT 02:47.000 --> 02:48.000 align:start OF THE WOODWORK OF St. PAUL. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 align:start TO SOME PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY 02:50.000 --> 02:51.000 align:start PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN 02:51.000 --> 02:53.000 align:start MINNEAPOLIS, THEY THINK OF 02:53.000 --> 02:54.000 align:start St. PAUL AS THE SMALLER 02:54.000 --> 02:55.000 align:start CITY. 02:55.000 --> 02:58.000 align:start BUT THERE'S A LOT OF DEPTH AND 02:58.000 --> 03:01.000 align:start REALLY AMAZING PEOPLE AND 03:01.000 --> 03:02.000 align:start EXPERIENCES AND HISTORY IN 03:02.000 --> 03:08.000 align:start St. PAUL. 03:08.000 --> 03:10.000 align:start >> THE COMMUNITY EDITOR 03:10.000 --> 03:11.000 align:start PROCESS HAPPENS EVERY YEAR. 03:11.000 --> 03:14.000 align:start THERE ARE 14 CLASSES MEETING. 03:14.000 --> 03:15.000 align:start WE HAVE FIVE PROFESSIONAL 03:15.000 --> 03:17.000 align:start COMMUNITY EDITORS. 03:17.000 --> 03:20.000 align:start WE HAVE 20 EVERYDAY PEOPLE WHO 03:20.000 --> 03:22.000 align:start HAVE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF 03:22.000 --> 03:23.000 align:start ABILITY IN WRITING AND 03:23.000 --> 03:24.000 align:start INTEREST IN WRITING AND 03:24.000 --> 03:24.000 align:start READING. 03:24.000 --> 03:26.000 align:start AND WE ALL COME TOGETHER AND 03:26.000 --> 03:28.000 align:start WE WORK ON OUR OWN WRITINGS 03:28.000 --> 03:31.000 align:start AND WE ALSO GET HUNDREDS OF 03:31.000 --> 03:32.000 align:start SUBMISSIONS FROM 03:32.000 --> 03:33.000 align:start St. PAULITES, PEOPLE AROUND 03:33.000 --> 03:35.000 align:start THE WORLD, AND WE DECIDED, THE 03:35.000 --> 03:36.000 align:start GROUP, WHAT GOES INTO THE 03:36.000 --> 03:37.000 align:start St. PAUL ALMANAC. 03:37.000 --> 03:40.000 align:start >> YOU THINK THAT SOMEBODY, 03:40.000 --> 03:41.000 align:start SOPHOMORE IN HIGH SCHOOL, MAY 03:41.000 --> 03:43.000 align:start NOT HAVE A LOT TO CONTRIBUTE 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 align:start TO THE DISCUSSION, NO, NOT 03:45.000 --> 03:47.000 align:start MUCH DEPTH, THAT WILL BE THE 03:47.000 --> 03:48.000 align:start STEREOTYPE, BUT IT'S REALLY 03:48.000 --> 03:49.000 align:start AMAZING NIGHT AFTER NIGHT HERE 03:49.000 --> 03:51.000 align:start TO SEE THE INSIGHTS THAT THEY 03:51.000 --> 03:52.000 align:start ARE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, REVEAL 03:52.000 --> 03:55.000 align:start ABOUT THE PIECES THEY READ. 03:55.000 --> 03:57.000 align:start SO, AS A WRITER, THAT'S JUST 03:57.000 --> 03:58.000 align:start EDUCATIONAL TO ME. 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 align:start >> ARE YOU READY FOR OUR FIRST 04:00.000 --> 04:02.000 align:start POET? 04:02.000 --> 04:04.000 align:start ARE YOU READY FOR THE FIRST 04:04.000 --> 04:04.000 align:start POET? 04:04.000 --> 04:05.000 align:start CHEERS 04:05.000 --> 04:06.000 align:start >> ALL RIGHT! 04:06.000 --> 04:06.000 align:start YEAH. 04:06.000 --> 04:08.000 align:start >> THE LOWER TOWN READING HAS 04:08.000 --> 04:10.000 align:start BEEN HAPPENING FOR FIVE YEARS, 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 align:start HERE AT THE BLACK DOG CAFE IN 04:12.000 --> 04:13.000 align:start LOWER TOWN. 04:13.000 --> 04:14.000 align:start AND THEY'RE CURATED BY A 04:14.000 --> 04:17.000 align:start CURATOR THAT IS CHOSEN BY THE 04:17.000 --> 04:18.000 align:start St. PAUL ALMANAC AND THEY 04:18.000 --> 04:19.000 align:start DECIDE ON A THEME AND INVITE 04:19.000 --> 04:21.000 align:start OTHER WRITERS AND PERFORMERS 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 align:start TO READ ON THAT THEME. 04:23.000 --> 04:24.000 align:start >> THERE ARE THREE WAYS TO 04:24.000 --> 04:26.000 align:start MAKE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU. 04:26.000 --> 04:27.000 align:start BUY ME A BOOK. 04:27.000 --> 04:29.000 align:start FROM THE BACK CORNER OF THE 04:29.000 --> 04:30.000 align:start BOOKSTORE ON A SINGLE BOTTOM 04:30.000 --> 04:31.000 align:start SHELF. 04:31.000 --> 04:33.000 align:start >> WHY WOULD I TELL SOMEONE TO 04:33.000 --> 04:35.000 align:start READ THE St. PAUL ALMANAC? 04:35.000 --> 04:38.000 align:start IT'S A MEDIA OUTLET THAT IS 04:38.000 --> 04:39.000 align:start VERY AUTHENTIC, YOU KNOW, FROM 04:39.000 --> 04:42.000 align:start THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES. 04:42.000 --> 04:45.000 align:start IN St. PAUL, WE HAVE SUCH A 04:45.000 --> 04:46.000 align:start DIVERSE COMMUNITY. 04:46.000 --> 04:49.000 align:start SOMEHOW WE HAVE TO GET 04:49.000 --> 04:50.000 align:start PEOPLE -- TO START PAYING 04:50.000 --> 04:52.000 align:start ATTENTION TO EACH OTHER, 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 align:start CONNECTING TO PEOPLE AND YOU 04:54.000 --> 04:55.000 align:start WILL FIND SOMETHING THAT IS 04:55.000 --> 04:56.000 align:start RELEVANT TO YOU. 04:56.000 --> 04:57.000 align:start >> I THINK WE OFTEN THINK WE 04:57.000 --> 04:58.000 align:start DON'T HAVE COLOR IN OUR 04:58.000 --> 04:59.000 align:start LIVES -- POWER IN OUR LIVES 04:59.000 --> 05:01.000 align:start AND OUR VOICES ARE OUR POWER. 05:01.000 --> 05:02.000 align:start AND AT THE St. PAUL ALMANAC, 05:02.000 --> 05:03.000 align:start WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU 05:03.000 --> 05:04.000 align:start HAVE A CHANCE TO TELL YOUR 05:04.000 --> 05:05.000 align:start STORY. 05:05.000 --> 05:06.000 align:start AND I'VE JUST BEEN BLESSED TO 05:06.000 --> 05:08.000 align:start BE ABLE TO HEAR AND READ SO 05:08.000 --> 05:10.000 align:start MANY BEAUTIFUL, STRONG, 05:10.000 --> 05:11.000 align:start IMPORTANT STORIES ABOUT THE 05:11.000 --> 05:31.000 align:start CITY AND ABOUT OUR PEOPLE. 05:31.000 --> 05:37.000 align:start CHEERS 05:37.000 --> 05:38.000 align:start >> Adia: HI, EVERYONE. 05:38.000 --> 05:38.000 align:start WE ARE BACK. 05:38.000 --> 05:41.000 align:start WHAT A GREAT OUTRO TO 05:41.000 --> 05:42.000 align:start St. PAUL ALMANAC. 05:42.000 --> 05:46.000 align:start WE ARE BACK WITH KIMBERLY. 05:46.000 --> 05:47.000 align:start KIMBERLY, I WANT TO KNOW A 05:47.000 --> 05:48.000 align:start LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHAT 05:48.000 --> 05:49.000 align:start KIND OF STORIES WE'RE GOING TO 05:49.000 --> 05:50.000 align:start SEE TONIGHT? 05:50.000 --> 05:50.000 align:start WHAT'S THE THEME? 05:50.000 --> 05:51.000 align:start >> YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR ALL 05:51.000 --> 05:52.000 align:start ABOUT OUR PEOPLE RIGHT HERE IN 05:52.000 --> 05:54.000 align:start THE CITY, THE BEAUTIFUL CITY 05:54.000 --> 05:55.000 align:start OF St. PAUL. 05:55.000 --> 05:58.000 align:start OUR LOSS, OUR LOVE, OUR 05:58.000 --> 05:59.000 align:start SURPRISE, AND THE DELIGHT THAT 05:59.000 --> 06:02.000 align:start WE HAVE IN OUR EVERYDAY LIVES. 06:02.000 --> 06:03.000 align:start >> Adia: COOL, VERY COOL. 06:03.000 --> 06:04.000 align:start DIVERSITY LIKE THEY MENTIONED 06:04.000 --> 06:06.000 align:start IN THE VIDEO, IS THAT REALLY 06:06.000 --> 06:07.000 align:start IMPORTANT TO THE ALMANAC? 06:07.000 --> 06:08.000 align:start >> THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ALL 06:08.000 --> 06:08.000 align:start ABOUT. 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 align:start IF WE DON'T DO THAT, WE FAIL. 06:10.000 --> 06:11.000 align:start WITH YOUR HELP, ALL OF US ARE 06:11.000 --> 06:12.000 align:start GOING TO BE TELLING OUR TRUE 06:12.000 --> 06:13.000 align:start STORIES OF LIVING HERE IN THE 06:13.000 --> 06:14.000 align:start CITY. 06:14.000 --> 06:15.000 align:start >> Adia: AWESOME. 06:15.000 --> 06:16.000 align:start ALL RIGHT. 06:16.000 --> 06:20.000 align:start SO, SHAQWAN, WHY DO YOU PICK 06:20.000 --> 06:21.000 align:start THE THEME WHERE ARE YOU GOING? 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 align:start >> IT EVOLVES FROM OUR OLD 06:23.000 --> 06:24.000 align:start THEME LAST YEAR, WHICH IS WHAT 06:24.000 --> 06:26.000 align:start DO YOU LOVE ABOUT St. PAUL. 06:26.000 --> 06:27.000 align:start AND WE ASKED PEOPLE TO WRITE 06:27.000 --> 06:29.000 align:start ON CHALKBOARDS WHAT THEY LOVED 06:29.000 --> 06:30.000 align:start ABOUT St. PAUL AND 06:30.000 --> 06:31.000 align:start FREQUENTLY IT WAS A PLACE. 06:31.000 --> 06:33.000 align:start SO THIS YEAR WITH ALL OF THE 06:33.000 --> 06:34.000 align:start NEW DIVERSITY IN TERMS OF THE 06:34.000 --> 06:35.000 align:start TRANSPORTATION, WE HAVE THE 06:35.000 --> 06:35.000 align:start NEW STORYMOBILE, AND 06:35.000 --> 06:36.000 align:start St. PAUL HAS THE NEW LIGHT 06:36.000 --> 06:38.000 align:start RAIL, SO WE THOUGHT, WHERE ARE 06:38.000 --> 06:39.000 align:start YOU GOING, WAS A GREAT WAY TO 06:39.000 --> 06:41.000 align:start TIE IN TRANSPORTATION TO LAST 06:41.000 --> 06:42.000 align:start YEAR'S THEME AND PEOPLE HAVE 06:42.000 --> 06:43.000 align:start COME UP WITH SOME GREAT 06:43.000 --> 06:44.000 align:start PLACES. 06:44.000 --> 06:44.000 align:start >> Adia: THAT'S AWESOME. 06:44.000 --> 06:45.000 align:start WAY TO TIE THAT IN. 06:45.000 --> 06:46.000 align:start I LIKE THAT. 06:46.000 --> 06:47.000 align:start SO EITHER ONE OF YOU CAN 06:47.000 --> 06:48.000 align:start ANSWER THIS QUESTION. 06:48.000 --> 06:50.000 align:start WHY IS St. PAUL ALMANAC 06:50.000 --> 06:51.000 align:start IMPORTANT? 06:51.000 --> 06:51.000 align:start WHY DO WE HAVE IT? 06:51.000 --> 06:52.000 align:start WHY DO WE DO THIS? 06:52.000 --> 06:54.000 align:start >> I THINK THE St. PAUL 06:54.000 --> 06:55.000 align:start ALMANAC IS REALLY IMPORTANT 06:55.000 --> 06:57.000 align:start WAS IT -- BECAUSE IT EMPOWERS 06:57.000 --> 06:58.000 align:start PEOPLE THAT MAYBE DON'T FEEL 06:58.000 --> 06:59.000 align:start LIKE THEY ARE POWERFUL IN A 06:59.000 --> 07:00.000 align:start LITERARY OR A STORY-TELLING 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 align:start SPHERE AND EVERYONE REALLY 07:02.000 --> 07:03.000 align:start SEEMS TO LOVE TO TELL THEIR 07:03.000 --> 07:04.000 align:start STORIES, BUT IT CAN BE REALLY 07:04.000 --> 07:05.000 align:start HARD FOR PEOPLE TO COME OUT OF 07:05.000 --> 07:05.000 align:start THEIR SKIN. 07:05.000 --> 07:07.000 align:start I STARTED WORKING WITH ALMANAC 07:07.000 --> 07:08.000 align:start WHEN I WAS IN TENTH GRADE, 07:08.000 --> 07:10.000 align:start AND, SO, I WAS, I DON'T REALLY 07:10.000 --> 07:11.000 align:start HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY, NOW I 07:11.000 --> 07:12.000 align:start WORK WITH THEM JUST ABOUT 07:12.000 --> 07:13.000 align:start EVERY DAY AND I'M ALWAYS 07:13.000 --> 07:14.000 align:start TELLING MY STORIES, TELLING 07:14.000 --> 07:15.000 align:start OTHER PEOPLE'S STORIES, AND 07:15.000 --> 07:16.000 align:start IT'S A GREAT FEELING. 07:16.000 --> 07:17.000 align:start >> Adia: THAT'S REALLY COOL. 07:17.000 --> 07:19.000 align:start SO WERE YOU A SHY READER, 07:19.000 --> 07:20.000 align:start LIKE, DID YOU REFUSE TO READ 07:20.000 --> 07:20.000 align:start OUT LOUD? 07:20.000 --> 07:22.000 align:start >> YEAH, I WOULDN'T REALLY 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 align:start TALK, EVEN AT MEETINGS, I 07:24.000 --> 07:25.000 align:start WOULDN'T WANT TO READ. 07:25.000 --> 07:27.000 align:start BUT NOW I'M TOTALLY 07:27.000 --> 07:27.000 align:start COMFORTABLE. 07:27.000 --> 07:28.000 align:start >> Adia: I CAN TELL. 07:28.000 --> 07:28.000 align:start LOOK AT THIS. 07:28.000 --> 07:30.000 align:start WELL, IT'S TIME FOR OUR VERY 07:30.000 --> 07:33.000 align:start FIRST STORIES OF THE NIGHT. 07:33.000 --> 07:34.000 align:start FIRST UP, WE HAVE A POEM FROM 07:34.000 --> 07:34.000 align:start DONTE COLLINS THAT'S A BIT OF 07:34.000 --> 07:35.000 align:start A LOVE LETTER TO THE OLD RONDO 07:35.000 --> 07:37.000 align:start NEIGHBOHOOD. 07:37.000 --> 07:38.000 align:start THEN, WE'LL STOP BY THE ST. 07:38.000 --> 07:40.000 align:start PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY TO RELIVE 07:40.000 --> 07:41.000 align:start SOME SPECIAL CHILDHOOD 07:41.000 --> 07:42.000 align:start MEMORIES, COURTESY OF AUTHOR 07:42.000 --> 08:01.000 align:start KAREN KARSTEN. 08:01.000 --> 08:02.000 align:start >>. 08:02.000 --> 08:04.000 align:start CAP GUN ROBBERS, COPS AND 08:04.000 --> 08:06.000 align:start SUNDAY CREEP COLLARS, PRIVATE 08:06.000 --> 08:07.000 align:start SCHOOL SCHOLARS, GIVING THE 08:07.000 --> 08:09.000 align:start CHURCH BASKET THE DOLLARS OUR 08:09.000 --> 08:10.000 align:start MOTHERS SLIPPED INTO OUR 08:10.000 --> 08:11.000 align:start POCKETS SECONDS BEFORE. 08:11.000 --> 08:14.000 align:start AND WE HELD DOORS FOR OUR 08:14.000 --> 08:14.000 align:start ELDERS. 08:14.000 --> 08:15.000 align:start RECEIVE COMMUNION EVEN THOUGH 08:15.000 --> 08:17.000 align:start OUR TONGUES HADN'T REACHED THE 08:17.000 --> 08:18.000 align:start STAGE OF HOLY. 08:18.000 --> 08:19.000 align:start WATER GUNS WEREN'T ALLOWED IN 08:19.000 --> 08:21.000 align:start OUR HOMES BUT BALLOONS WERE SO 08:21.000 --> 08:22.000 align:start WE SOAKED OUR SUMMERS IN 08:22.000 --> 08:28.000 align:start BATTLE SHIPS, NAIVE 9-YEAR-OLD 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 align:start HORIZONS, SUNSETS SITTING ON 08:30.000 --> 08:31.000 align:start J. JAY HILL. 08:31.000 --> 08:33.000 align:start WAITING FOR THE STREET LAMPS 08:33.000 --> 08:34.000 align:start TO CALL US HOME BEFORE OUR 08:34.000 --> 08:34.000 align:start MOTHERS DID. 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 align:start WHEN SHE DID, WE DITCHED OUR 08:36.000 --> 08:39.000 align:start SCREEN DOORS, DANCED IN RAIN, 08:39.000 --> 08:41.000 align:start BECAME THE NIGHT'S. 08:41.000 --> 08:42.000 align:start THEY CALLED US KIDS. 08:42.000 --> 08:43.000 align:start WE CALLED OURSELVES BIGGER 08:43.000 --> 08:48.000 align:start THAN MOST THINGS OUR SIZE. 08:48.000 --> 08:51.000 align:start GIRLS BENEATH THE SLIDES, 08:51.000 --> 08:52.000 align:start FIRST KISSES, EVERYTHING WAS 08:52.000 --> 08:53.000 align:start FUNNIER WHEN YOU WEREN'T 08:53.000 --> 08:54.000 align:start SUPPOSED TO SMILE. 08:54.000 --> 08:57.000 align:start THEY TOLD US TO MIND OUR 08:57.000 --> 08:58.000 align:start MANNERS. 08:58.000 --> 08:59.000 align:start CRISS-CROSS APPLESAUCE FOR 08:59.000 --> 08:59.000 align:start DINNER. 08:59.000 --> 09:00.000 align:start DID YOU WASH YOUR HANDS BEFORE 09:00.000 --> 09:01.000 align:start DISHING THEM GREENS? 09:01.000 --> 09:03.000 align:start DID YOU HELP YOUR MOTHER PICK 09:03.000 --> 09:04.000 align:start THEM GREENS? 09:04.000 --> 09:07.000 align:start SCABBED KNEES, BUBBLE GUM 09:07.000 --> 09:07.000 align:start JEANS. 09:07.000 --> 09:10.000 align:start ALL COKED UP ON MIKE AND IKE 09:10.000 --> 09:11.000 align:start SAYS. 09:11.000 --> 09:13.000 align:start EAT SOME NOW, SAVE SOME FOR 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 align:start LATER, SOUNDED A LOT LIKE A 09:15.000 --> 09:16.000 align:start METAPHOR FOR CHILDHOOD. 09:16.000 --> 09:18.000 align:start THE WAY WE GREW UP THROUGH 09:18.000 --> 09:20.000 align:start ANNIVERSARIES OF STREET SIGNS, 09:20.000 --> 09:21.000 align:start PARADES. 09:21.000 --> 09:22.000 align:start I GUESS BEFORE THEY BUILT THAT 09:22.000 --> 09:24.000 align:start FREEWAY, THERE WAS A COLONY OF 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 align:start HOUSES, LINED UP LIKE HERITAGE 09:26.000 --> 09:29.000 align:start ON AN AUCTION BLOCK ABOUT TO 09:29.000 --> 09:30.000 align:start MEET THEIR GOD. 09:30.000 --> 09:31.000 align:start THE LARGEST BLACK COMMUNITY IN 09:31.000 --> 09:32.000 align:start St. PAUL WAS CUT DOWN. 09:32.000 --> 09:34.000 align:start LIKE IT HAD ITS -- LIKE IT 09:34.000 --> 09:36.000 align:start HADN'T DESERVED THE LAND IT 09:36.000 --> 09:37.000 align:start SLEPT ON FOR SO LONG, LIKE IT 09:37.000 --> 09:40.000 align:start HADN'T RAISED ITS CHILDREN, 09:40.000 --> 09:41.000 align:start PORCHES, GRANDMA'S FRONT LAWN, 09:41.000 --> 09:43.000 align:start I BET IF THEY KNEW WE HID 09:43.000 --> 09:44.000 align:start BENEATH THE BRIDGES THEY 09:44.000 --> 09:45.000 align:start BUILT, THEY WOULD TEAR THOSE 09:45.000 --> 09:46.000 align:start DOWN, TOO. 09:46.000 --> 09:47.000 align:start THEY WOULD TELL US KIDS TO 09:47.000 --> 09:49.000 align:start GROW UP LIKE HIGH RISES TO 09:49.000 --> 09:50.000 align:start MINORITY GROUPS. 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 align:start WE WERE MINORITY GROUPS. 09:52.000 --> 09:53.000 align:start BUT IF YOU RAISE YOUR FIRE 09:53.000 --> 09:55.000 align:start FLIES IN THE HEARTS OF THE 09:55.000 --> 09:56.000 align:start DARK, EARN THEIR LIGHT IN THE 09:56.000 --> 09:57.000 align:start FORM OF A SPARK. 09:57.000 --> 09:58.000 align:start IN THE FORM OF A MILLION 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 align:start MATCHES ATTEMPTING TO SET 10:00.000 --> 10:02.000 align:start FLAME TO THE DESERT UNTIL 10:02.000 --> 10:03.000 align:start EVERY GRAIN IS A DIAMOND WORTH 10:03.000 --> 10:04.000 align:start GIVING A NAME. 10:04.000 --> 10:06.000 align:start SO THEY CALLED US KIDS. 10:06.000 --> 10:07.000 align:start WE CALLED OURSELVES THE REASON 10:07.000 --> 10:09.000 align:start THIS NEIGHBORHOOD LIVES. 10:09.000 --> 10:10.000 align:start THE REASON YOU CAN CLEAR YOUR 10:10.000 --> 10:12.000 align:start THROAT IN CONCERT AND ENJOY 10:12.000 --> 10:13.000 align:start THE RIGHT TO BREATHE. 10:13.000 --> 10:16.000 align:start OUR PIGMENT, PERMANENT IN 10:16.000 --> 10:17.000 align:start SILHOUETTES SO OUR STREET 10:17.000 --> 10:18.000 align:start LAMPS NEVER HAVE TO LEAVE. 10:18.000 --> 10:21.000 align:start WE WERE A FRONT DOOR KINGDOM, 10:21.000 --> 10:22.000 align:start COLLARD GREENS, OUR MOTHERS 10:22.000 --> 10:24.000 align:start AWOKE US AT DAWN. 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 align:start TOLD US TO WALK DOWN THE 10:26.000 --> 10:27.000 align:start BLOCK, GIVEN ENOUGH MONEY FOR 10:27.000 --> 10:30.000 align:start A COFFEE AND A KRISPY KREME. 10:30.000 --> 10:33.000 align:start AND IF I REMEMBERED TO 10:33.000 --> 10:35.000 align:start BRINGING, MY MOTHER WOULD 10:35.000 --> 10:38.000 align:start ALWAYS LOAN ME A WEEK. 10:38.000 --> 10:38.000 align:start TOP OF THE WORLD. 10:38.000 --> 11:02.000 align:start FOR AT LEAST THE -- 11:02.000 --> 11:05.000 align:start >> WE'RE CLOSING NOW, THE 11:05.000 --> 11:06.000 align:start LIBRARIAN SAID SOFTLY, PASSING 11:06.000 --> 11:08.000 align:start QUIETLY ALONG THE POLISHED 11:08.000 --> 11:09.000 align:start REFERENCE TABLES. 11:09.000 --> 11:12.000 align:start I LOVE THIS ROOM WITH ITS LONG 11:12.000 --> 11:14.000 align:start TABLES AND STURDY OAK CHAIRS, 11:14.000 --> 11:16.000 align:start THE QUIET SOAKS INTO ME. 11:16.000 --> 11:20.000 align:start I EVEN FEEL SMARTER HERE IN. 11:20.000 --> 11:21.000 align:start I GATHER MY BOOKS, TAKE THEM 11:21.000 --> 11:23.000 align:start TO THE CHECKOUT, HAVE THEM 11:23.000 --> 11:24.000 align:start STAMPED. 11:24.000 --> 11:26.000 align:start I STEP OUT INTO THE NIGHT, 11:26.000 --> 11:28.000 align:start LEAVING BEHIND THE QUIET 11:28.000 --> 11:30.000 align:start ELEGANT BEAUTY AS I CLOSE THE 11:30.000 --> 11:32.000 align:start SHINY BRASS AND GLASS DOORS. 11:32.000 --> 11:34.000 align:start I WALK DOWN THE MARBLE STAIRS, 11:34.000 --> 11:35.000 align:start LIKE A STAR ARRIVING AT A 11:35.000 --> 11:38.000 align:start QUIET EVENT. 11:38.000 --> 11:40.000 align:start THE APRIL WIND IS SHARP. 11:40.000 --> 11:41.000 align:start I BREATHE THE DAMP AIR. 11:41.000 --> 11:43.000 align:start THE SMELL OF BOOKS, LOTS OF 11:43.000 --> 11:46.000 align:start BOOKS PACKED TIGHTLY ON THEIR 11:46.000 --> 11:48.000 align:start SHELVES, STILL IN MY LUNGS. 11:48.000 --> 11:52.000 align:start OLD SCHOLARS STILL TALKING TO 11:52.000 --> 11:52.000 align:start ME. 11:52.000 --> 11:53.000 align:start IN PAPERY WHISPER. 11:53.000 --> 11:55.000 align:start I DECIDE TO WALK THE FLEW 11:55.000 --> 11:56.000 align:start BLOCKS TO THAT PINK HOUSE NEXT 11:56.000 --> 11:58.000 align:start TO MY MOTHER'S RESTAURANT. 11:58.000 --> 12:00.000 align:start THE SAME WAY I CAME. 12:00.000 --> 12:03.000 align:start DOWN THE LONG STAIRCASE, PAST 12:03.000 --> 12:04.000 align:start THE St. PAUL MILL COMPANY 12:04.000 --> 12:06.000 align:start AND UP CHESTNUT STREET. 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 align:start I WALK SLOWLY, THINKING ABOUT 12:08.000 --> 12:12.000 align:start THE LIBRARY BACK WHERE WE 12:12.000 --> 12:13.000 align:start LIVED UNTIL FIVE YEARS AGO. 12:13.000 --> 12:14.000 align:start EVERY OTHER SATURDAY MORNING, 12:14.000 --> 12:16.000 align:start I WOULD HEAR THE SLAP SLAP 12:16.000 --> 12:18.000 align:start SLAP AGAINST THE WALL NEXT TO 12:18.000 --> 12:19.000 align:start MY BED. 12:19.000 --> 12:22.000 align:start NEW BOOKS. 12:22.000 --> 12:23.000 align:start THE BARBER SHOP NEXT DOOR WAS 12:23.000 --> 12:26.000 align:start THE TOWN LIBRARY. 12:26.000 --> 12:28.000 align:start ONE CASE NEXT TO THE WALL OF 12:28.000 --> 12:29.000 align:start MIRRORS THAT REFLECTED EVERY 12:29.000 --> 12:31.000 align:start MALE FACE IN TOWN ON A REGULAR 12:31.000 --> 12:31.000 align:start BASIS. 12:31.000 --> 12:34.000 align:start THE BOOK MOBILE GUY WOULD PULL 12:34.000 --> 12:37.000 align:start OLD BOOKS OFF THE SHELVES. 12:37.000 --> 12:38.000 align:start PUT NEW ONES IN. 12:38.000 --> 12:40.000 align:start THEN HEAD BACK TO MARSHALL 13 12:40.000 --> 12:41.000 align:start MILES AWAY. 12:41.000 --> 12:41.000 align:start I WOULD RUSH OVER EXCITED TO 12:41.000 --> 12:43.000 align:start SEE WHAT HAD ARRIVED. 12:43.000 --> 12:46.000 align:start MAYBE A NEW NANCY DREW. 12:46.000 --> 12:48.000 align:start IT IS QUIET IN St. PAUL. 12:48.000 --> 12:50.000 align:start RICE PARK IS DESERTED EXCEPT 12:50.000 --> 12:51.000 align:start FOR A FEW MEN WHO ARE STAKING 12:51.000 --> 12:53.000 align:start OUT A BENCH FOR THE NIGHT. 12:53.000 --> 12:54.000 align:start I SMELL THE GREENNESS. 12:54.000 --> 12:56.000 align:start LOOK UP AT THE NIGHT SKY, 12:56.000 --> 12:57.000 align:start SEARCHING FOR THE BLAZING STAR 12:57.000 --> 12:59.000 align:start THAT WAS ALWAYS TO THE RIGHT 12:59.000 --> 13:01.000 align:start OF THE WATER TOWER. 13:01.000 --> 13:03.000 align:start THERE ARE LOTS OF STARS, MANY 13:03.000 --> 13:04.000 align:start OF THEM BRIGHT. 13:04.000 --> 13:06.000 align:start AND I HAVE LOST TRACK OF WHERE 13:06.000 --> 13:07.000 align:start THE STARS SHOULD BE WITHOUT 13:07.000 --> 13:09.000 align:start THE TOWER TO GUIDE ME. 13:09.000 --> 13:11.000 align:start THEN I AM HOME. 13:11.000 --> 13:12.000 align:start IT IS NOT QUIET. 13:12.000 --> 13:14.000 align:start MY MOTHER HAS GONE TO OUR LAKE 13:14.000 --> 13:15.000 align:start CABIN FOR THE WEEKEND WITH MY 13:15.000 --> 13:17.000 align:start LITTLE BROTHER, KENNY. 13:17.000 --> 13:19.000 align:start MY OLDER SISTER, KATHY, AND I 13:19.000 --> 13:23.000 align:start BEG TO STAY HOME AND STUDY. 13:23.000 --> 13:25.000 align:start SO CLOSE, WE SAID. 13:25.000 --> 13:26.000 align:start KATHY IS NOT STUDYING. 13:26.000 --> 13:28.000 align:start THE HOUSE IS FILLED WITH TEENS 13:28.000 --> 13:30.000 align:start DRINKING BEER, SLOW DANCING TO 13:30.000 --> 13:31.000 align:start LOVE ME TENDER AND TALKING OR 13:31.000 --> 13:33.000 align:start MAKING OUT ON THE FLOOR. 13:33.000 --> 13:34.000 align:start KIDS ARE EVERYWHERE. 13:34.000 --> 13:37.000 align:start IN THE HALL, IN THE KITCHEN. 13:37.000 --> 13:39.000 align:start POTATOES CHIPS -- POTATO CHIPS 13:39.000 --> 13:40.000 align:start ARE EVERYWHERE SMASHED INTO 13:40.000 --> 13:42.000 align:start THE CARPET AND PEOPLE ARE 13:42.000 --> 13:44.000 align:start COMING IN THE FRONT DOOR, LOTS 13:44.000 --> 13:44.000 align:start OF THEM. 13:44.000 --> 13:47.000 align:start GOOD THING I GOT MOST OF MY 13:47.000 --> 13:48.000 align:start FINAL PAPER DONE AT THE 13:48.000 --> 13:48.000 align:start LIBRARY. 13:48.000 --> 13:49.000 align:start THIS IS BEDLAM. 13:49.000 --> 13:50.000 align:start I KNOW THAT BRIGHT AND EARLY 13:50.000 --> 13:52.000 align:start MONDAY MORNING, THE LADY DOWN 13:52.000 --> 13:53.000 align:start THE STREET WILL TELL MY MOTHER 13:53.000 --> 13:55.000 align:start WHAT WAS GOING ON TONIGHT AND 13:55.000 --> 13:56.000 align:start WE WILL BOTH BE GROUNDED 13:56.000 --> 13:57.000 align:start FOREVER. 13:57.000 --> 13:59.000 align:start MY SISTER KNOWS THAT, TOO, BUT 13:59.000 --> 14:00.000 align:start SHE IS SURROUNDED BY 30 OR SO 14:00.000 --> 14:02.000 align:start OF HER BEST FRIENDS. 14:02.000 --> 14:04.000 align:start WEARING HER TIGHTEST JEANS, 14:04.000 --> 14:05.000 align:start LONG, DARK HAIR PULLED BACK 14:05.000 --> 14:07.000 align:start INTO A PONYTAIL. 14:07.000 --> 14:08.000 align:start THEY'RE LOOKING AT RECORDS AND 14:08.000 --> 14:10.000 align:start ARGUING ABOUT WHAT TO PLAY 14:10.000 --> 14:10.000 align:start NEXT. 14:10.000 --> 14:11.000 align:start FAST OR SLOW. 14:11.000 --> 14:14.000 align:start SHE DOESN'T EVEN NOTICE ME. 14:14.000 --> 14:16.000 align:start I GREW UP -- I GO UP THE 14:16.000 --> 14:18.000 align:start STAIRS HOLDING MY BOOKS AND 14:18.000 --> 14:19.000 align:start PAPERS AND HEAD TO MY ROOM. 14:19.000 --> 14:21.000 align:start A BLONDE GUY IS COMING OUT OF 14:21.000 --> 14:25.000 align:start THE BATHROOM, STUMBLING A BIT. 14:25.000 --> 14:27.000 align:start PULLING HIS HAIR INTO A DUCK 14:27.000 --> 14:27.000 align:start TAIL AS HE WALKS. 14:27.000 --> 14:29.000 align:start HE LOOKS AT ME. 14:29.000 --> 14:30.000 align:start WHO ARE YOU, HE SAYS. 14:30.000 --> 14:32.000 align:start DO I KNOW YOU? 14:32.000 --> 14:32.000 align:start ME? 14:32.000 --> 14:33.000 align:start I LIVE HERE, I SAY. 14:33.000 --> 14:56.000 align:start I SLAM THE DOOR TO MY ROOM. 14:56.000 --> 15:10.000 align:start Cheers and applause 15:10.000 --> 15:11.000 align:start >> Adia: HELLO, EVERYONE. 15:11.000 --> 15:12.000 align:start WE ARE BACK. 15:12.000 --> 15:13.000 align:start THOSE WERE GREAT VIDEOS. 15:13.000 --> 15:16.000 align:start I AM HERE WITH TACOUMBA. 15:16.000 --> 15:17.000 align:start >> HI. 15:17.000 --> 15:18.000 align:start >> Adia: AND I'M VERY 15:18.000 --> 15:18.000 align:start EXCITED. 15:18.000 --> 15:19.000 align:start >> I'M VERY EXCITED. 15:19.000 --> 15:19.000 align:start >> Adia: GOOD. 15:19.000 --> 15:21.000 align:start WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? 15:21.000 --> 15:22.000 align:start WHAT'S HAPPENING? 15:22.000 --> 15:23.000 align:start >> WE ARE TAKING OVER. 15:23.000 --> 15:24.000 align:start DON'T TELL ANYBODY THAT, BUT 15:24.000 --> 15:25.000 align:start WE'RE TAKING OVER. 15:25.000 --> 15:27.000 align:start THIS IS A MURAL LIKE MANY 15:27.000 --> 15:29.000 align:start THINGS THAT GO ON IN LOWER 15:29.000 --> 15:30.000 align:start TOWN, WE DO A LOT OF THINGS. 15:30.000 --> 15:31.000 align:start THE TWIN CITIES, WE CREATE 15:31.000 --> 15:33.000 align:start ART, WE USE ART FROM THE 15:33.000 --> 15:33.000 align:start HEART. 15:33.000 --> 15:36.000 align:start THIS PIECE IS ACTUALLY CALLED 15:36.000 --> 15:39.000 align:start I LOVE YOU. 15:39.000 --> 15:40.000 align:start THAT'S MANDARIN. 15:40.000 --> 15:41.000 align:start THIS IS AN ACT OF LOVE, THINGS 15:41.000 --> 15:43.000 align:start THAT WE DO, THINGS THAT 15:43.000 --> 15:44.000 align:start St. PAUL ALMANAC DO IN THE 15:44.000 --> 15:45.000 align:start STORIES. 15:45.000 --> 15:46.000 align:start THIS IS ANOTHER PIECE, 15:46.000 --> 15:46.000 align:start HOPEFULLY SOMEBODY GETS 15:46.000 --> 15:47.000 align:start INSPIRED BY. 15:47.000 --> 15:49.000 align:start I'M ALREADY, LIKE, INSPIRED. 15:49.000 --> 15:50.000 align:start >> Adia: YEAH. 15:50.000 --> 15:53.000 align:start >> A LOT OF PEOPLE, WE'VE HAD 15:53.000 --> 15:54.000 align:start A LOT OF PEOPLE COMING AND 15:54.000 --> 15:55.000 align:start PAINTING, JUST COMING IN, 15:55.000 --> 15:56.000 align:start PAINTING, THEY DON'T CARE 15:56.000 --> 15:58.000 align:start ABOUT GETTING PAINT ON THEIR 15:58.000 --> 15:59.000 align:start CLOTHES AND I'M NOT PAYING FOR 15:59.000 --> 16:00.000 align:start IT IF THEY DO. 16:00.000 --> 16:01.000 align:start SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN KIND 16:01.000 --> 16:03.000 align:start OF NICE, YOU KNOW. 16:03.000 --> 16:04.000 align:start AS A MATTER OF FACT, I'M GOING 16:04.000 --> 16:06.000 align:start TO JUST -- HAVE YOU GRAB THIS 16:06.000 --> 16:07.000 align:start BRUSH FOR ONE SECOND. 16:07.000 --> 16:08.000 align:start FIND A SPOT THERE. 16:08.000 --> 16:10.000 align:start YOU CAN DO A DOT OR A LINE OR 16:10.000 --> 16:11.000 align:start SOMETHING. 16:11.000 --> 16:11.000 align:start OH, YEAH. 16:11.000 --> 16:13.000 align:start OH, YEAH. 16:13.000 --> 16:13.000 align:start SEE. 16:13.000 --> 16:15.000 align:start OH, OH, CAN'T STOP HER NOW. 16:15.000 --> 16:17.000 align:start THE BRUSH, THE BRUSH, THE 16:17.000 --> 16:19.000 align:start BRUSH. 16:19.000 --> 16:21.000 align:start I WOULD LET YOU HAVE IT. 16:21.000 --> 16:22.000 align:start >> Adia: WELL, WHAT ARE YOU 16:22.000 --> 16:23.000 align:start HOPING TO -- I MEAN -- YOU 16:23.000 --> 16:24.000 align:start KIND OF TALKED ABOUT HOPING 16:24.000 --> 16:28.000 align:start TO -- I LOVE YOU. 16:28.000 --> 16:29.000 align:start WHAT ARE YOU HOPING TO DO? 16:29.000 --> 16:31.000 align:start >> THE LIVE PAINTING IS FOR 16:31.000 --> 16:32.000 align:start PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT WE'RE 16:32.000 --> 16:33.000 align:start ALWAYS INTERMINGLED AND 16:33.000 --> 16:34.000 align:start COMBINED AND ALL OF THAT. 16:34.000 --> 16:36.000 align:start WE BREATHE. 16:36.000 --> 16:37.000 align:start IT'S THE ACT OF BREATHING. 16:37.000 --> 16:38.000 align:start SO WE BREATHE TOGETHER SO WE 16:38.000 --> 16:39.000 align:start CAN PAINT TOGETHER, WE CAN 16:39.000 --> 16:40.000 align:start WORK TOGETHER, WE CAN WRITE 16:40.000 --> 16:41.000 align:start TOGETHER. 16:41.000 --> 16:42.000 align:start SO I JUST WANTED PEOPLE TO BE 16:42.000 --> 16:45.000 align:start ABLE TO SEE THAT NO MATTER, 16:45.000 --> 16:47.000 align:start YOU CAN NOT DRAW OR DRAW, 16:47.000 --> 16:48.000 align:start PAINT OR NOT PAINT, BUT WHAT 16:48.000 --> 16:50.000 align:start YOU CAN DO IS SHARE AND 16:50.000 --> 16:51.000 align:start BREATHE TOGETHER. 16:51.000 --> 16:54.000 align:start >> Adia: I LOVE THAT. 16:54.000 --> 16:55.000 align:start >> ADIA: OUR NEXT STORIES 16:55.000 --> 16:56.000 align:start FEATURE TWO RADICALLY 16:56.000 --> 16:57.000 align:start DIFFERENT ST. PAUL LOCATIONS. 16:57.000 --> 16:59.000 align:start THE FIRST, FROM AUTHOR MAY LEE 16:59.000 --> 17:00.000 align:start YANG, EXPLORES CHILDHOOD 17:00.000 --> 17:02.000 align:start MEMORIES SURROUNDING THE LONG 17:02.000 --> 17:03.000 align:start CHENG LIVESTOCK MARKET IN 17:03.000 --> 17:04.000 align:start SOUTH ST. PAUL. 17:04.000 --> 17:06.000 align:start THEN, WE'LL RELAX A BIT IN 17:06.000 --> 17:07.000 align:start LOWERTOWN'S MEARS PARK WITH A 17:07.000 --> 17:20.000 align:start POEM FROM MARTIN DEVANEY. 17:20.000 --> 17:22.000 align:start >> 13,200 DOLLARS THAT'S WHAT 17:22.000 --> 17:25.000 align:start WE LIVED ON EVERY YEARMENT 17:25.000 --> 17:27.000 align:start $850 IN CASH FROM THE COUNTY. 17:27.000 --> 17:30.000 align:start PLUS $250 IN FOOD STAMPS. 17:30.000 --> 17:31.000 align:start MY MOTHER EXPLAINED THE 17:31.000 --> 17:33.000 align:start EXPENSES TO ME. 17:33.000 --> 17:33.000 align:start RENT. 17:33.000 --> 17:35.000 align:start $600. 17:35.000 --> 17:37.000 align:start ELECTRICITY, $120. 17:37.000 --> 17:39.000 align:start PHONE, $20. 17:39.000 --> 17:40.000 align:start SHE DOESN'T MENTION EXPENSES 17:40.000 --> 17:41.000 align:start FOR THINGS LIKE SHAMPOO, 17:41.000 --> 17:43.000 align:start CLOTHING, NOTEBOOKS AND OTHER 17:43.000 --> 17:43.000 align:start THINGS. 17:43.000 --> 17:44.000 align:start WELL, WHAT ABOUT THE FOOD 17:44.000 --> 17:45.000 align:start STAMPS, I ASK? 17:45.000 --> 17:47.000 align:start ONE PIG, $120. 17:47.000 --> 17:50.000 align:start A FEW CHICKENS, $30. 17:50.000 --> 17:51.000 align:start MISCELLANEOUS GROCERIES, $100. 17:51.000 --> 17:54.000 align:start THE PIG CAME STRAIGHT FROM THE 17:54.000 --> 17:55.000 align:start SLAUGHTER HOUSE IN SOUTH 17:55.000 --> 17:56.000 align:start St. PAUL. 17:56.000 --> 17:59.000 align:start MY MOTHER AND FATHER CUT IT UP 17:59.000 --> 18:01.000 align:start AND THEN, PORK CHOPS, MEATS, 18:01.000 --> 18:03.000 align:start RIBS, IN ZIP LOCK BAGS THAT 18:03.000 --> 18:05.000 align:start WERE STORED IN THE CHEST 18:05.000 --> 18:06.000 align:start FREEZER THAT WAS SQUEEZED 18:06.000 --> 18:07.000 align:start INSIDE OUR KITCHEN. 18:07.000 --> 18:09.000 align:start EVEN WHEN WE LIVED IN THE 18:09.000 --> 18:11.000 align:start TWO-BEDROOM APARTMENT, IT 18:11.000 --> 18:11.000 align:start TRAVELED WITH US AND WAS 18:11.000 --> 18:13.000 align:start HOUSED IN ONE OF THE BEDROOMS. 18:13.000 --> 18:16.000 align:start THE CHICKENS ARE WORTH, IF I'M 18:16.000 --> 18:16.000 align:start LUCKY, THEY'VE ALREADY BEEN 18:16.000 --> 18:18.000 align:start KILLED AND DRESSED BEFORE THEY 18:18.000 --> 18:19.000 align:start COME HOME, SOMETIMES THEY COME 18:19.000 --> 18:20.000 align:start HOME ALIVE. 18:20.000 --> 18:22.000 align:start IF THIS IS THE CASE, THEY 18:22.000 --> 18:24.000 align:start TEMPORARILY LIVE IN OVERTURNED 18:24.000 --> 18:26.000 align:start CARDBOARD BOX OR A BROWN PAPER 18:26.000 --> 18:26.000 align:start BAG. 18:26.000 --> 18:27.000 align:start WHEN THE CHICKEN IS READY TO 18:27.000 --> 18:28.000 align:start BE KILLED, MY MOTHER AND 18:28.000 --> 18:30.000 align:start SOMEONE ELSE, USUALLY MY 18:30.000 --> 18:30.000 align:start SISTER-IN-LAW, WILL MAKE A 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 align:start SPOT IN THE KITCHEN. 18:32.000 --> 18:35.000 align:start THERE IS A POT OF HOT WATER, A 18:35.000 --> 18:38.000 align:start BOWL, A KNIFE, A TRASH CAN, 18:38.000 --> 18:39.000 align:start NEWSPAPERS. 18:39.000 --> 18:40.000 align:start ONE PERSON HELD ONTO THE LEGS 18:40.000 --> 18:41.000 align:start AND WINGS WHILE THE OTHER 18:41.000 --> 18:44.000 align:start PERSON SLITS THE THROAT. 18:44.000 --> 18:46.000 align:start THE CHICKEN WAILS AS ITS BLOOD 18:46.000 --> 18:48.000 align:start DRIPS INTO THE BOWL. 18:48.000 --> 18:49.000 align:start AFTER THE BLOOD-LETTING IS 18:49.000 --> 18:51.000 align:start DONE, MY MOTHER DUMPS THE 18:51.000 --> 18:53.000 align:start CHICKEN INTO THE POT OF HOT 18:53.000 --> 18:54.000 align:start WATER AND PULLS OUT ITS 18:54.000 --> 18:55.000 align:start FEATHERS. 18:55.000 --> 18:57.000 align:start I DIDN'T LIKE ESPECIALLY 18:57.000 --> 18:59.000 align:start KILLED CHICKEN, THOUGH, THEY 18:59.000 --> 19:00.000 align:start COULDN'T BE FRIED BECAUSE THE 19:00.000 --> 19:01.000 align:start SKIN WAS TOO TOUGH. 19:01.000 --> 19:03.000 align:start DURING THE SUMMERS, WE HAD A 19:03.000 --> 19:03.000 align:start GARDEN. 19:03.000 --> 19:05.000 align:start ONE YEAR IT WAS IN ROSEMOUNT. 19:05.000 --> 19:07.000 align:start ANOTHER YEAR IN LAKE ELMO. 19:07.000 --> 19:10.000 align:start OTHER YEARS, I DON'T REMEMBER. 19:10.000 --> 19:12.000 align:start AT THE GARDEN, WE SNAPPED 19:12.000 --> 19:13.000 align:start GREEN BEANS OFF THEIR VINES 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 align:start FILLING WHITE BUCKETS TO THEIR 19:15.000 --> 19:15.000 align:start BRIM. 19:15.000 --> 19:17.000 align:start ONE SUMMER, I REMEMBER EATING 19:17.000 --> 19:19.000 align:start GREEN BEANS STIR FRY WITH PORK 19:19.000 --> 19:21.000 align:start FOR ALMOST EVERY SINGLE MEAL. 19:21.000 --> 19:22.000 align:start BUT I WOULD BE LYING IF I MADE 19:22.000 --> 19:24.000 align:start IT SEEM LIKE WE LIVED OFF THE 19:24.000 --> 19:24.000 align:start SIDE OF THE LAND. 19:24.000 --> 19:26.000 align:start I MEAN, THERE WERE JOBS WE DID 19:26.000 --> 19:27.000 align:start ON THE SIDE. 19:27.000 --> 19:28.000 align:start WHEN I WAS 12, MY MOTHER AND I 19:28.000 --> 19:31.000 align:start WORKED AT THE FACTORIES ON THE 19:31.000 --> 19:31.000 align:start WEEKEND. 19:31.000 --> 19:33.000 align:start WE ASSEMBLED FLOWER 19:33.000 --> 19:34.000 align:start ARRANGEMENTS AND BOUQUETS THAT 19:34.000 --> 19:36.000 align:start WERE SENT OFF TO LARGE GROCERY 19:36.000 --> 19:37.000 align:start STORES LIKE CUB FOODS. 19:37.000 --> 19:38.000 align:start WHEN I WAS 13, A FEW TIMES 19:38.000 --> 19:39.000 align:start DURING THE WINTER, WE'D GO TO 19:39.000 --> 19:41.000 align:start THE CIVIC CENTER AT 10:30 OR 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 align:start 11:00 AT NIGHT TO SWEEP AND 19:43.000 --> 19:44.000 align:start MOP THE SEATING SECTION. 19:44.000 --> 19:45.000 align:start AS WE ARRIVED, PEOPLE WERE ON 19:45.000 --> 19:47.000 align:start THEIR WAY OUT OF HOCKEY GAMES 19:47.000 --> 19:48.000 align:start AND I'D AVOID THEIR GAZE, 19:48.000 --> 19:50.000 align:start AFRAID THAT MY CLASSMATES 19:50.000 --> 19:51.000 align:start MIGHT BE AMONG THEM. 19:51.000 --> 19:54.000 align:start BY THE TIME I WAS 16, I WAS 19:54.000 --> 19:55.000 align:start TIRED OF THESE JOBS. 19:55.000 --> 19:57.000 align:start I COULDN'T PUT ON MY RESUME. 19:57.000 --> 19:59.000 align:start TIRED OF SAYING NOTHING WHICH 19:59.000 --> 20:00.000 align:start PEOPLE ASKED ME WHAT I DID ON 20:00.000 --> 20:00.000 align:start THE WEEKEND. 20:00.000 --> 20:03.000 align:start TIRED OF SITTING IN THE 20:03.000 --> 20:04.000 align:start LUNCHROOM EATING STICKY RICE 20:04.000 --> 20:05.000 align:start AND FRIED FISH NEXT TO PEOPLE 20:05.000 --> 20:07.000 align:start WHO WERE EATING SANDWICHES AND 20:07.000 --> 20:08.000 align:start CHIPS. 20:08.000 --> 20:09.000 align:start TIRED OF HAVING JOBS WHERE 20:09.000 --> 20:10.000 align:start NOBODY KNEW YOUR NAME AND 20:10.000 --> 20:12.000 align:start DIDN'T CARE TO KNOW. 20:12.000 --> 20:14.000 align:start WHEN I WENT OFF TO COLLEGE, I 20:14.000 --> 20:16.000 align:start GOT A JOB PHOTOCOPYING PAPERS 20:16.000 --> 20:18.000 align:start FOR PROFESSORS. 20:18.000 --> 20:21.000 align:start AT 19, I STARTED WORKING AT A 20:21.000 --> 20:22.000 align:start NONPROFIT AND I'VE STAYED 20:22.000 --> 20:24.000 align:start THERE EVER SINCE. 20:24.000 --> 20:25.000 align:start SOMETIMES, MY MOTHER WILL CALL 20:25.000 --> 20:28.000 align:start ME UP AND ASK IN MY 20:28.000 --> 20:28.000 align:start ORGANIZATION HAS ANY JOB 20:28.000 --> 20:32.000 align:start OPENINGS FOR MY BROTHERS. 20:32.000 --> 20:34.000 align:start WE DO, IT'S NOT LIKE YOU CAN 20:34.000 --> 20:35.000 align:start JUST WORK THERE. 20:35.000 --> 20:39.000 align:start YOU NEED SKILLS, EXPERIENCE. 20:39.000 --> 20:40.000 align:start YOU JUST SIT AROUND ALL DAY, 20:40.000 --> 20:42.000 align:start SHE ASKS? 20:42.000 --> 20:42.000 align:start YES. 20:42.000 --> 20:43.000 align:start THEY PAY YOU TO THINK? 20:43.000 --> 20:44.000 align:start YES. 20:44.000 --> 20:47.000 align:start WELL, HOW MUCH DO YOU MAKE? 20:47.000 --> 20:48.000 align:start WHEN I TOLD HER, SHE EXPLAINED 20:48.000 --> 20:51.000 align:start THAT I MUST HAVE AT LEAST 20:51.000 --> 20:55.000 align:start $10,000 SAVED UP. 20:55.000 --> 20:58.000 align:start EVEN THOUGH EDUCATION, 20:58.000 --> 20:59.000 align:start EXPERIENCE, AND 16 YEARS OF 20:59.000 --> 21:01.000 align:start WORK HISTORY ARE BUNDLED 21:01.000 --> 21:02.000 align:start TOGETHER, I'M NOT TOO FAR FROM 21:02.000 --> 21:04.000 align:start WHERE I STARTED WHEN I WAS 12 21:04.000 --> 21:26.000 align:start YEARS OLD. 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 align:start >> WHEN I FIRST PUT MY ARM 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 align:start AROUND YOU, RED COATS AND 21:30.000 --> 21:30.000 align:start AUTUMN HATS. 21:30.000 --> 21:33.000 align:start WE WALKED FROM THE FARMERS 21:33.000 --> 21:35.000 align:start MARKET, BASIL IN HAND, ARM IN 21:35.000 --> 21:36.000 align:start ARM. 21:36.000 --> 21:40.000 align:start THE DOG WAITED. 21:40.000 --> 21:41.000 align:start SO MUCH MUSIC HAS BEEN MADE, 21:41.000 --> 21:43.000 align:start ECHOING THROUGH LOWER TOWN, 21:43.000 --> 21:45.000 align:start THE SHADE OF THE STAGE AND THE 21:45.000 --> 21:47.000 align:start WIND AND THE REEDS MADE SENSE 21:47.000 --> 21:50.000 align:start OF THAT SATURDAY. 21:50.000 --> 21:53.000 align:start FINE CUP OF COFFEE CUT THROUGH 21:53.000 --> 21:54.000 align:start FOGGY MINDS. 21:54.000 --> 21:56.000 align:start WE PUT OUR BLANKETS ON THE 21:56.000 --> 21:59.000 align:start GRASS AND LISTENED. 21:59.000 --> 22:02.000 align:start LATER, ON ROCKY TERRAIN NEAR 22:02.000 --> 22:03.000 align:start THE RIVER, WE LAUGHED AND 22:03.000 --> 22:09.000 align:start CLIMBED AS WE CARRIED THE DOG. 22:09.000 --> 22:11.000 align:start WE LEFT THE BASIL BEHIND. 22:11.000 --> 22:15.000 align:start I HAD A FEELING EVERYTHING WAS 22:15.000 --> 22:27.000 align:start GOING TO BE OKAY. 22:27.000 --> 22:28.000 align:start Cheers and applause 22:28.000 --> 22:29.000 align:start >> Adia: WELCOME BACK, 22:29.000 --> 22:29.000 align:start WELCOME BACK. 22:29.000 --> 22:32.000 align:start I AM HERE IN FRONT OF THIS 22:32.000 --> 22:32.000 align:start BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL PIECE 22:32.000 --> 22:33.000 align:start RIGHT HERE. 22:33.000 --> 22:35.000 align:start AND IT IS CALLED THE 22:35.000 --> 22:36.000 align:start STORYMOBILE. 22:36.000 --> 22:37.000 align:start AND I AM HERE WITH TWO OF THE 22:37.000 --> 22:38.000 align:start PEOPLE WHO ARE INVOLVED IN 22:38.000 --> 22:39.000 align:start THIS. 22:39.000 --> 22:42.000 align:start MARK COLLINS AND SAY JAMES. 22:42.000 --> 22:42.000 align:start DID I GET IT RIGHT? 22:42.000 --> 22:43.000 align:start ALL RIGHT. 22:43.000 --> 22:44.000 align:start WELL, FIRST OF ALL, LET ME ASK 22:44.000 --> 22:46.000 align:start YOU ALL, LAMAR, CAN YOU GIVE 22:46.000 --> 22:48.000 align:start US A QUICK TOUR OF THIS? 22:48.000 --> 22:48.000 align:start >> YES. 22:48.000 --> 22:51.000 align:start THE STORYMOBILE IS A 22:51.000 --> 22:53.000 align:start STRUCTURE, IT IS DECKED OUT, 22:53.000 --> 22:56.000 align:start IT HAS A TV, FOUR iPADS WITH 22:56.000 --> 22:58.000 align:start SOLAR ROOF, IT HAS WRITING 22:58.000 --> 23:02.000 align:start UTENSILS INSIDE OF IT, YOU CAN 23:02.000 --> 23:04.000 align:start GET RECORDED, VIDEO RECORDED 23:04.000 --> 23:06.000 align:start OR YOU CAN TYPE IT THROUGH THE 23:06.000 --> 23:07.000 align:start BACK, HE'S PANNING AROUND 23:07.000 --> 23:08.000 align:start THERE. 23:08.000 --> 23:09.000 align:start AND, YEAH. 23:09.000 --> 23:10.000 align:start >> Adia: AWESOME. 23:10.000 --> 23:11.000 align:start ALL RIGHT. 23:11.000 --> 23:12.000 align:start OH, YEAH, WHAT'S THIS VIDEO 23:12.000 --> 23:13.000 align:start SCREEN RIGHT HERE? 23:13.000 --> 23:14.000 align:start >> OH, THIS IS THE TV. 23:14.000 --> 23:17.000 align:start IT HAS A SLIDE SHOW GROWING AT 23:17.000 --> 23:19.000 align:start THE MOMENT OF US RIDING IT 23:19.000 --> 23:20.000 align:start AROUND THE CITY, THE 23:20.000 --> 23:20.000 align:start St. PAUL AREA. 23:20.000 --> 23:22.000 align:start I THINK IT HAS A COUPLE OF 23:22.000 --> 23:24.000 align:start PICTURES OF US BUILDING IT 23:24.000 --> 23:26.000 align:start THAT ARE UNATTRACTIVE. 23:26.000 --> 23:27.000 align:start BUT, YEAH, THIS IS A QUICK 23:27.000 --> 23:28.000 align:start SLIDE SHOW. 23:28.000 --> 23:29.000 align:start >> Adia: VERY COOL. 23:29.000 --> 23:29.000 align:start >> IT'S STUCK. 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 align:start I THINK IT'S ON PAUSE 23:31.000 --> 23:31.000 align:start ACTUALLY. 23:31.000 --> 23:33.000 align:start THAT'S WHAT THAT IS. 23:33.000 --> 23:34.000 align:start >> Adia: FOR A LITTLE WHILE. 23:34.000 --> 23:35.000 align:start THAT'S ALL RIGHT. 23:35.000 --> 23:37.000 align:start IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE. 23:37.000 --> 23:38.000 align:start SAY, SO TELL US A LITTLE BIT 23:38.000 --> 23:40.000 align:start ABOUT THE BUILDING AND DESIGN 23:40.000 --> 23:40.000 align:start PROCESS? 23:40.000 --> 23:42.000 align:start >> SO FIRST WE SAW DRAWINGS OF 23:42.000 --> 23:43.000 align:start WHAT IT MIGHT HAVE LOOKED 23:43.000 --> 23:45.000 align:start LIKE, AND THEN WE STARTED 23:45.000 --> 23:47.000 align:start BUILDING OUT OF A FOAM BOARD 23:47.000 --> 23:49.000 align:start AND WE DID IT, LIKE, LIFE-SIZE 23:49.000 --> 23:51.000 align:start AND THEN WE FINALLY PICTURED 23:51.000 --> 23:51.000 align:start HOW IT WAS. 23:51.000 --> 23:52.000 align:start AND WE ACTUALLY HAVE A VIDEO 23:52.000 --> 23:54.000 align:start OF US TRYING TO GET IT 23:54.000 --> 23:55.000 align:start DOWNSTAIRS, JUST THE FOAM, AND 23:55.000 --> 23:56.000 align:start THAT WAS EVEN HARD, AND WE 23:56.000 --> 23:58.000 align:start WERE, LIKE, HOW ARE WE GOING 23:58.000 --> 24:00.000 align:start TO GET THIS DOWN? 24:00.000 --> 24:00.000 align:start BUT WE MANAGED. 24:00.000 --> 24:01.000 align:start AND WE STARTED BUILDING THIS. 24:01.000 --> 24:04.000 align:start AND WHEN WE SAW IT, IT JUST 24:04.000 --> 24:05.000 align:start CAME TOO REAL TO US AND WE 24:05.000 --> 24:07.000 align:start WERE REALLY EXCITED TO TRY IT 24:07.000 --> 24:07.000 align:start OUT. >> Adia: THAT'S AWESOME. 24:07.000 --> 24:09.000 align:start SO HOW CAN PEOPLE RECORD THEIR 24:09.000 --> 24:10.000 align:start STORIES? 24:10.000 --> 24:12.000 align:start WHO WANTS TO TAKE THAT ONE? 24:12.000 --> 24:13.000 align:start >> YOU HAVE THREE OPTIONS. 24:13.000 --> 24:14.000 align:start YOU CAN GET VIDEO RECORDED, 24:14.000 --> 24:16.000 align:start YOU CAN WRITE IT ON A NOTEPAD, 24:16.000 --> 24:19.000 align:start OR YOU CAN TYPE IT ON AN 24:19.000 --> 24:19.000 align:start IPAD. 24:19.000 --> 24:20.000 align:start >> Adia: OKAY. 24:20.000 --> 24:21.000 align:start WHAT HAPPENS TO THE STORIES 24:21.000 --> 24:21.000 align:start AFTER THEY'RE RECORDED? 24:21.000 --> 24:23.000 align:start >> THEY GO STRAIGHT TO THE 24:23.000 --> 24:23.000 align:start St. PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY AND 24:23.000 --> 24:25.000 align:start THEY ARE ARCHIVED ON A HARD 24:25.000 --> 24:26.000 align:start DRIVE. 24:26.000 --> 24:26.000 align:start >> Adia: FOREVER AND EVER. 24:26.000 --> 24:27.000 align:start >> FOREVER AND EVER. 24:27.000 --> 24:28.000 align:start >> Adia: VERY COOL. 24:28.000 --> 24:30.000 align:start AND WHERE WILL WE SEE 24:30.000 --> 24:31.000 align:start STORYMOBILE? 24:31.000 --> 24:31.000 align:start WHEN IS IT HAPPENING AND 24:31.000 --> 24:32.000 align:start WHERE? 24:32.000 --> 24:34.000 align:start >> WE HAVE A SCHEDULE, WE'RE 24:34.000 --> 24:35.000 align:start GOING TO BE AROUND A LOT, WE 24:35.000 --> 24:37.000 align:start MIGHT BE JUST RIDING DOWN, 24:37.000 --> 24:38.000 align:start CATCH US IF YOU WANT TO TELL 24:38.000 --> 24:41.000 align:start US A STORY, AND WE'LL BE AT A 24:41.000 --> 24:43.000 align:start LOT OF SPECIAL EVENTS AROUND 24:43.000 --> 24:43.000 align:start HERE. 24:43.000 --> 24:44.000 align:start >> Adia: VERY COOL, THANK 24:44.000 --> 24:45.000 align:start YOU, ALL OF YOU, WHO ARE 24:45.000 --> 24:46.000 align:start WEARING THE LOVELY T-SHIRTS, 24:46.000 --> 24:47.000 align:start WHO ARE INVOLVED, I'M 24:47.000 --> 24:48.000 align:start GUESSING, YEAH. 24:48.000 --> 24:49.000 align:start GOOD, ALL RIGHT. 24:49.000 --> 24:50.000 align:start WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 24:50.000 --> 24:50.000 align:start THAT INTRO. 24:50.000 --> 24:52.000 align:start I AM EXCITED TO SEE IT. 24:52.000 --> 24:55.000 align:start IT'S WINTER AGAIN IN OUR NEXT 24:55.000 --> 24:55.000 align:start PIECE. 24:55.000 --> 25:00.000 align:start A SHORT POEM FROM WRITER 25:00.000 --> 25:03.000 align:start LOUISE DESANTO AS WE CELEBRATE 25:03.000 --> 25:05.000 align:start THE GREAT MINNESOTA PASTIME, 25:05.000 --> 25:05.000 align:start HOCKEY. 25:05.000 --> 25:07.000 align:start AND WE'LL HEAR FROM PATRICIA 25:07.000 --> 25:10.000 align:start ANITA YOUNG AS WE HEAR STORIES 25:10.000 --> 25:12.000 align:start OF HER FATHER WHO WORKED AS A 25:12.000 --> 25:21.000 align:start RED CAB PORTER. 25:21.000 --> 25:26.000 align:start RED CAP PORTER. 25:26.000 --> 25:29.000 align:start >> LIFE MAGAZINE FOR SHIN 25:29.000 --> 25:30.000 align:start GUARDS. 25:30.000 --> 25:32.000 align:start SKATES TOO BIG, STICK CRACKED 25:32.000 --> 25:35.000 align:start AND OLD. 25:35.000 --> 25:38.000 align:start JACKET PATCHED AND AT THAT TATTERED. 25:38.000 --> 25:41.000 align:start I IGNORED THE SMIRKS AT 25:41.000 --> 25:42.000 align:start WINTER'S COLD. 25:42.000 --> 25:44.000 align:start LOVE OF HOCKEY IS ALL THAT 25:44.000 --> 26:37.000 align:start MATTERED. 26:37.000 --> 26:40.000 align:start >> MY DAD, JAMES MELVIN YOUNG, 26:40.000 --> 26:42.000 align:start SR., BECAME THE SECOND 26:42.000 --> 26:44.000 align:start GENERATION RED CAP PORTER WHEN 26:44.000 --> 26:47.000 align:start HIS UNCLE, WILLIAM A. YOUNG, 26:47.000 --> 26:50.000 align:start RETIRED CIRCA 1949. 26:50.000 --> 26:54.000 align:start MELVIN WAS 23 YEARS OLD WHEN 26:54.000 --> 26:57.000 align:start THE St. PAUL UNION DEPOT WAS 26:57.000 --> 27:00.000 align:start THE GATEWAY TO THE WORLD. 27:00.000 --> 27:03.000 align:start WORKING THERE WAS A SPARK THAT 27:03.000 --> 27:05.000 align:start IGNITED MY DAD'S LOVE FOR 27:05.000 --> 27:06.000 align:start WORLD TRAVEL. 27:06.000 --> 27:10.000 align:start THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY 36 27:10.000 --> 27:13.000 align:start RED CAP PORTERS ALL AFRICAN 27:13.000 --> 27:14.000 align:start AMERICAN. 27:14.000 --> 27:17.000 align:start THEIR RED CAPS BECAME 27:17.000 --> 27:21.000 align:start SYNONYMOUS WITH INTEGRITY AND 27:21.000 --> 27:22.000 align:start RELIABILITY. 27:22.000 --> 27:24.000 align:start THEIR WORK WAS DEMANDING. 27:24.000 --> 27:25.000 align:start MY DAD SAYS. 27:25.000 --> 27:26.000 align:start ONE MINUTE I WAS MOPPING 27:26.000 --> 27:28.000 align:start FLOORS IN THE HEAD HOUSE. 27:28.000 --> 27:29.000 align:start THE NEXT MINUTE I WAS RACING 27:29.000 --> 27:32.000 align:start UP THE CONCOURSE TO MEET 27:32.000 --> 27:34.000 align:start PASSENGERS AND CARRY THEIR 27:34.000 --> 27:35.000 align:start BAGS. 27:35.000 --> 27:36.000 align:start THEN I'D RETURN TO THE HEAD 27:36.000 --> 27:40.000 align:start HOUSE TO TRIM HEDGES, SHINE 27:40.000 --> 27:42.000 align:start PATRONS' SHOES OR THE BRASS 27:42.000 --> 27:43.000 align:start HANDLES ON THE ENTRANCE DOORS, 27:43.000 --> 27:47.000 align:start WASH WINDOWS, OPERATE THE 27:47.000 --> 27:49.000 align:start ELEVATOR, LICENSE REQUIRED, OR 27:49.000 --> 27:50.000 align:start PARK CARS. 27:50.000 --> 27:52.000 align:start DAD READ THE NEWSPAPER DAILY 27:52.000 --> 27:55.000 align:start TO BE PREPARED FOR THE 27:55.000 --> 27:56.000 align:start UNLIMITED QUESTIONS THAT 27:56.000 --> 27:57.000 align:start TRAVELERS ASKED. 27:57.000 --> 27:59.000 align:start WHERE IS THE CONVENTION 27:59.000 --> 28:00.000 align:start CENTER? 28:00.000 --> 28:05.000 align:start WHERE IS THIS EVENT BEING 28:05.000 --> 28:06.000 align:start HELD? 28:06.000 --> 28:07.000 align:start THERE ARE PLEASANT 28:07.000 --> 28:08.000 align:start RECOLLECTIONS, MY DAD SAYS. 28:08.000 --> 28:10.000 align:start THE ARTWORK ON THE CONCOURSE 28:10.000 --> 28:11.000 align:start CEILING WAS MY FAVORITE PART 28:11.000 --> 28:14.000 align:start OF THE DEPOT. 28:14.000 --> 28:16.000 align:start THE MEN PLAYED CHECKERS IN 28:16.000 --> 28:17.000 align:start THEIR LOCKER ROOM, ON THEIR 28:17.000 --> 28:19.000 align:start LUNCH BREAK. 28:19.000 --> 28:21.000 align:start SOMETIMES THEY PULLED THEIR -- 28:21.000 --> 28:22.000 align:start POOLED THEIR MONEY TO HELP 28:22.000 --> 28:24.000 align:start SOMEONE IN THE DEPOT OUT OF A 28:24.000 --> 28:25.000 align:start BAD SITUATION. 28:25.000 --> 28:27.000 align:start THERE ARE PAINFUL MEMORIES, 28:27.000 --> 28:27.000 align:start TOO. 28:27.000 --> 28:29.000 align:start THE RED CAPS WERE NOT IMMUNE 28:29.000 --> 28:32.000 align:start FROM THE RACIAL ISSUES OF THE 28:32.000 --> 28:32.000 align:start TIME. 28:32.000 --> 28:35.000 align:start DAD FOCUSED ON WHAT HE COULD 28:35.000 --> 28:36.000 align:start CHANGE. 28:36.000 --> 28:38.000 align:start TRAVELING THE WORLD BECAME HIS 28:38.000 --> 28:42.000 align:start COLLEGE WITHOUT WALLS. 28:42.000 --> 28:43.000 align:start HE FULFILLED A DREAM TO PROVE 28:43.000 --> 28:46.000 align:start THAT NO MATTER WHAT COLOR SKIN 28:46.000 --> 28:48.000 align:start A PERSON MIGHT HAVE, MOST 28:48.000 --> 28:51.000 align:start PEOPLE ARE HONORABLE, 28:51.000 --> 28:54.000 align:start EMPATHETIC AND DESERVING. 28:54.000 --> 28:56.000 align:start I NICKNAMED HIM THE 28:56.000 --> 28:57.000 align:start PEACEMAKER. 28:57.000 --> 29:01.000 align:start HE RODE THE RAILS FROM 29:01.000 --> 29:04.000 align:start St. PAUL TO NEW JERSEY TO 29:04.000 --> 29:06.000 align:start WASHINGTON STATE, CALIFORNIA 29:06.000 --> 29:08.000 align:start TO QUEBEC THROUGH THE DEEP 29:08.000 --> 29:10.000 align:start SOUTH AND EVERY STATE IN 29:10.000 --> 29:12.000 align:start BETWEEN. 29:12.000 --> 29:15.000 align:start MY DAD'S PASSION FOR TRAVEL 29:15.000 --> 29:17.000 align:start ALL BEGAN AT THE St. PAUL 29:17.000 --> 29:19.000 align:start UNION DEPOT. 29:19.000 --> 29:21.000 align:start HE AIMED BEYOND WHAT HE SAW 29:21.000 --> 29:24.000 align:start WITH A CHILD-LIKE ANTICIPATION 29:24.000 --> 29:26.000 align:start AND A DETERMINATION TO MAKE IT 29:26.000 --> 29:28.000 align:start HAPPEN. 29:28.000 --> 29:32.000 align:start JAMES J. HILL, RAILROAD 29:32.000 --> 29:33.000 align:start BUILDER AND CHILD SUMNER 29:33.000 --> 29:36.000 align:start FROST, ARCHITECT, DREAMED OF 29:36.000 --> 29:37.000 align:start CONNECTING St. PAUL TO THE 29:37.000 --> 29:40.000 align:start REST OF OUR NATION. 29:40.000 --> 29:42.000 align:start THEIR VISION SPARKED JAMES 29:42.000 --> 29:44.000 align:start MELVIN YOUNG TO MAKE NEW 29:44.000 --> 29:47.000 align:start FRIENDS IN EVERY CORNER OF THE 29:47.000 --> 29:48.000 align:start WORLD. 29:48.000 --> 29:51.000 align:start DAD AND MOM, LOIS, ARE NOW 29:51.000 --> 29:52.000 align:start RETIRED AND CONTINUE TO 29:52.000 --> 29:55.000 align:start TRAVEL. 29:55.000 --> 29:59.000 align:start MAY THE St. PAUL UNION DEPOT 29:59.000 --> 30:01.000 align:start NURTURE DREAMS COME TRUE FOR 30:01.000 --> 30:04.000 align:start TRAVELERS FOR GENERATIONS TO 30:04.000 --> 30:05.000 align:start COME. 30:05.000 --> 30:13.000 align:start ALL ABOARD. 30:13.000 --> 30:24.000 align:start Applause 30:24.000 --> 30:29.000 align:start Cheers and applause 30:29.000 --> 30:31.000 align:start >> LAST RESORT. 30:31.000 --> 30:33.000 align:start I AM TRAPPED HERE IN A 30:33.000 --> 30:35.000 align:start SECOND-RATE BODY. 30:35.000 --> 30:37.000 align:start I, ME, WITH A PROPER ADDRESS 30:37.000 --> 30:39.000 align:start AND THE APPEARANCE OF A DECENT 30:39.000 --> 30:40.000 align:start BANK BALANCE, TRAPPED HERE 30:40.000 --> 30:43.000 align:start UNDER THE VERY BRIGHT LIGHTS 30:43.000 --> 30:45.000 align:start OF THIS SPECTACULAR FRIDAY 30:45.000 --> 30:46.000 align:start NIGHT SHOW. 30:46.000 --> 30:47.000 align:start ATTENTION, OVER HERE! 30:47.000 --> 30:49.000 align:start I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I'M 30:49.000 --> 30:51.000 align:start TERRIBLY SORRY IF I'VE 30:51.000 --> 30:52.000 align:start VISUALLY ASSAULTED YOU. 30:52.000 --> 30:54.000 align:start I WANT TO EXPLAIN. 30:54.000 --> 30:55.000 align:start I'M SOMEWHAT SURE THAT I 30:55.000 --> 30:56.000 align:start FOLLOWED MOST OF THE RULES BUT 30:56.000 --> 30:58.000 align:start DO YOU KNOW IF YOU WANT TO 30:58.000 --> 31:01.000 align:start HAVE YOUR CAKE, YOU MUST EAT 31:01.000 --> 31:03.000 align:start IT. 31:03.000 --> 31:04.000 align:start Laughter 31:04.000 --> 31:10.000 align:start Cheers and applause 31:10.000 --> 31:11.000 align:start >> ADIA: THANK YOU, CAROL! 31:11.000 --> 31:13.000 align:start OUR NEXT STORY COMES TO US 31:13.000 --> 31:14.000 align:start FROM AUTHOR NIMO FARAH AND IS 31:14.000 --> 31:15.000 align:start FOCUSED ON MEMORIES FROM THE 31:15.000 --> 31:27.000 align:start SKYLINE TOWERS IN ST. PAUL. 31:27.000 --> 31:28.000 align:start SPEAKING WORLD LANGUAGE 31:28.000 --> 31:30.000 align:start >> MY MOM, SCREAMING STANDING 31:30.000 --> 31:31.000 align:start AT THE DOOR OF HER MINNEAPOLIS 31:31.000 --> 31:33.000 align:start HOME. 31:33.000 --> 31:34.000 align:start I WHINE, YOU CAN'T RUSH TEA, 31:34.000 --> 31:37.000 align:start YOU KNOW THAT. 31:37.000 --> 31:38.000 align:start IT'S GOING TO BE A LONG DAY 31:38.000 --> 31:40.000 align:start AND I NEED TEA TO KEEP ME 31:40.000 --> 31:41.000 align:start GOING. 31:41.000 --> 31:45.000 align:start EVERY SUNDAY I'M DICTATED 31:45.000 --> 31:46.000 align:start SOMALI STORIES AND HER LADY 31:46.000 --> 31:50.000 align:start RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. 31:50.000 --> 31:51.000 align:start MY ROLES ARE WELL DEFINED, I'M 31:51.000 --> 31:53.000 align:start THE DRIVER AND A TEA MAKER. 31:53.000 --> 31:56.000 align:start AND IF ANY OF MY EXTENDED 31:56.000 --> 31:57.000 align:start RELATIVES NEED HELP WITH 31:57.000 --> 31:59.000 align:start TRANSLATIONS AND FILLING OUT 31:59.000 --> 32:00.000 align:start PAPERWORK, I'M GOOD FOR THAT, 32:00.000 --> 32:01.000 align:start TOO. 32:01.000 --> 32:03.000 align:start OUR FINAL SUNDAY DESTINATION 32:03.000 --> 32:06.000 align:start IS MAMA'S APARTMENT ON THE 32:06.000 --> 32:07.000 align:start NINTH FLOOR OF THE PLACE WE 32:07.000 --> 32:08.000 align:start CALL THE TITANIC, WHICH REALLY 32:08.000 --> 32:10.000 align:start IS THE SKYLINE TOWERS IN 32:10.000 --> 32:11.000 align:start St. PAUL. 32:11.000 --> 32:12.000 align:start TALL AND HAVE I BEEN FROM 32:12.000 --> 32:14.000 align:start HIGHWAY 9 -- VISIBLE AT 32:14.000 --> 32:16.000 align:start HIGHWAY 94 IS TRULY A VILLAGE 32:16.000 --> 32:18.000 align:start IN THE SKY. 32:18.000 --> 32:20.000 align:start MANY EAST AFRICANS 32:20.000 --> 32:22.000 align:start PREDOMINANTLY ETHIOPIANS AND 32:22.000 --> 32:24.000 align:start SOMALIS RESIDE THERE. 32:24.000 --> 32:25.000 align:start MAMA WESTON IS AN ELDERLY AUNT 32:25.000 --> 32:27.000 align:start WHO IS A PROMINENT 32:27.000 --> 32:28.000 align:start BUSINESSWOMAN IN SOMALIA. 32:28.000 --> 32:29.000 align:start SHE DOESN'T LIKE ANYONE MAKING 32:29.000 --> 32:31.000 align:start TEA BESIDES ME AND SAYS I HAVE 32:31.000 --> 32:34.000 align:start A SWEET TEA-MAKING HAND. 32:34.000 --> 32:37.000 align:start IF I COULD, I WOULD LIVE IN A 32:37.000 --> 32:41.000 align:start CUP OF SWEET SOMALI TEA. 32:41.000 --> 32:43.000 align:start EVEN THOUGH MAMA WESTON IS 83 32:43.000 --> 32:45.000 align:start YEARS OLD, SHE HAS A GIRLISH 32:45.000 --> 32:47.000 align:start LAUGH AND A YOUNG GENEROUS 32:47.000 --> 32:48.000 align:start SPIRIT THAT BRINGS EVERYONE 32:48.000 --> 32:50.000 align:start TOGETHER. 32:50.000 --> 32:52.000 align:start SHE SAYS I BRING OUT THE YOUNG 32:52.000 --> 32:53.000 align:start GIRL INSIDE OF HER, AND I 32:53.000 --> 32:55.000 align:start THINK SHE'S THE MOST ELEGANT 32:55.000 --> 32:57.000 align:start WOMAN I HAVE EVER MET. 32:57.000 --> 33:02.000 align:start AS USUAL, THE TITANIC TELECOM 33:02.000 --> 33:03.000 align:start IS BROKEN SO SOMEONE HAS TO 33:03.000 --> 33:05.000 align:start COME DOWN TO LET US IN. 33:05.000 --> 33:07.000 align:start AND THE ELEVATOR IS SLOW. 33:07.000 --> 33:11.000 align:start WHILE WE WAIT, I GET A CALL ON 33:11.000 --> 33:12.000 align:start MY MOBILE PHONE FROM MAMA 33:12.000 --> 33:16.000 align:start WESTON, SHE TELLS ME TO GO BUY 33:16.000 --> 33:17.000 align:start TEA INGREDIENTS FROM THE 33:17.000 --> 33:18.000 align:start GROCERY STORE ACROSS THE 33:18.000 --> 33:18.000 align:start STREET. 33:18.000 --> 33:21.000 align:start IN THE STORE, I GATHER 33:21.000 --> 33:23.000 align:start CINNAMON, GINGER, CARD MEN, 33:23.000 --> 33:26.000 align:start LIPTON TEA BAGS, CLOVE. 33:26.000 --> 33:28.000 align:start NORMALLY I ASK THE CASHIER TO 33:28.000 --> 33:30.000 align:start WRITE THE BILL ON MAMA 33:30.000 --> 33:31.000 align:start WESTON'S PAGE IN THE TAB BOOK, 33:31.000 --> 33:32.000 align:start BUT TODAY I HAVE A LITTLE CASH 33:32.000 --> 33:37.000 align:start SO I PAY. 33:37.000 --> 33:39.000 align:start MAMA WESTON APARTMENT IS 33:39.000 --> 33:41.000 align:start FURNISHED, IMPORTED CUSHION 33:41.000 --> 33:43.000 align:start AND TURKISH CARPET UNTIL THE 33:43.000 --> 33:44.000 align:start LATE EVENING. 33:44.000 --> 33:49.000 align:start MINGLE WITH THEIR SCENT OF THE 33:49.000 --> 33:52.000 align:start SPICY TEA, WE CELEBRATE, SING, 33:52.000 --> 33:55.000 align:start DANCE, CHANT AWAY THEIR 33:55.000 --> 33:56.000 align:start WORRIES. 33:56.000 --> 33:57.000 align:start BOILING AND BEING SERVED. 33:57.000 --> 33:59.000 align:start THE DOOR TO MAMA WESTON'S WILL 33:59.000 --> 34:00.000 align:start REMAIN OPEN. 34:00.000 --> 34:02.000 align:start SOME TIME AGO, A RUMOR SPREAD 34:02.000 --> 34:04.000 align:start THAT THE SKYLINE TOWER HAD 34:04.000 --> 34:05.000 align:start REACHED AN EXPIRATION DATE AND 34:05.000 --> 34:08.000 align:start WAS ABOUT TO COLLAPSE. 34:08.000 --> 34:10.000 align:start THE RUMOR GOT PEOPLE SO 34:10.000 --> 34:11.000 align:start FRIGHTENED THAT THEY SHOWED UP 34:11.000 --> 34:13.000 align:start TO THE NEXT MEETING, WHICH 34:13.000 --> 34:14.000 align:start NONE OF THEM HAD ATTENDED 34:14.000 --> 34:16.000 align:start BEFORE. 34:16.000 --> 34:18.000 align:start AN AMERICAN WOMAN WHO WORKS 34:18.000 --> 34:20.000 align:start THERE STOOD UP TO GREET THE 34:20.000 --> 34:21.000 align:start RESIDENTS. 34:21.000 --> 34:23.000 align:start WE ARE SURPRISED BY THIS 34:23.000 --> 34:24.000 align:start ATTENDANCE. 34:24.000 --> 34:26.000 align:start NORMALLY WE HAVE AN AGENDA, 34:26.000 --> 34:27.000 align:start BUT THIS EVENING WE WANT TO 34:27.000 --> 34:28.000 align:start LISTEN TO YOUR CONCERNS AND 34:28.000 --> 34:31.000 align:start ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS. 34:31.000 --> 34:33.000 align:start AN ELDERLY SOMALI WOMAN STOOD 34:33.000 --> 34:36.000 align:start UP, CLEARED HER THROAT. 34:36.000 --> 34:36.000 align:start IMITATING 34:36.000 --> 34:39.000 align:start AND BEGAN SPEAKING. 34:39.000 --> 34:41.000 align:start LIVED IN THIS BUILDING TEN 34:41.000 --> 34:41.000 align:start YEARS. 34:41.000 --> 34:43.000 align:start COME St. PAUL, LIVE HERE. 34:43.000 --> 34:46.000 align:start NOW, ME, FRIENDS, FAMILY, 34:46.000 --> 34:47.000 align:start SCARED. 34:47.000 --> 34:49.000 align:start WE ARE HERE BECAUSE WE HEAR 34:49.000 --> 34:53.000 align:start STORIES THE BUILDING GO DOWN 34:53.000 --> 34:54.000 align:start SOOFN. 34:54.000 --> 34:55.000 align:start LIKE TITANIC GO DOWN, THE TALL 34:55.000 --> 34:56.000 align:start BUILDING GO DOWN SOON. 34:56.000 --> 35:00.000 align:start WE'RE AFRAID OF SLEEP LIKE 35:00.000 --> 35:02.000 align:start TITANIC, WE DIE, FINISH. 35:02.000 --> 35:05.000 align:start SORRY ENGLISH BROKEN, BUT ME 35:05.000 --> 35:08.000 align:start HAS TO SPEAK FOR SELF BECAUSE 35:08.000 --> 35:09.000 align:start ME SCARED. 35:09.000 --> 35:10.000 align:start UNDERSTAND? 35:10.000 --> 35:11.000 align:start EVERYONE APPLAUDED IN 35:11.000 --> 35:12.000 align:start AGREEMENT WITH HER. 35:12.000 --> 35:14.000 align:start IT TURNED OUT THAT BECAUSE THE 35:14.000 --> 35:15.000 align:start ELEVATORS HAD BEEN GETTING 35:15.000 --> 35:18.000 align:start SLOWER AND SLOWER, PEOPLE'S 35:18.000 --> 35:20.000 align:start FEARS TURNED INTO STORIES AND 35:20.000 --> 35:23.000 align:start RUMORS OF COLLAPSE. 35:23.000 --> 35:27.000 align:start SINCE THAT DAY, SOMALIS THE 35:27.000 --> 35:29.000 align:start BUILDING HAS BEEN CALLED THE 35:29.000 --> 35:30.000 align:start TITANIC TOWER. 35:30.000 --> 35:33.000 align:start EVERY SUNDAY THE TITANIC, A 35:33.000 --> 35:35.000 align:start VILLAGE IN St. PAUL, KEEPS 35:35.000 --> 36:11.000 align:start ME CONNECTED TO SOMALIA. 36:11.000 --> 36:22.000 align:start Cheers and applause 36:22.000 --> 36:23.000 align:start >> ADIA: WE DEAL WITH SOME 36:23.000 --> 36:24.000 align:start TOUGH ISSUES IN THE NEXT TWO 36:24.000 --> 36:25.000 align:start STORIES FROM AUTHORS ELENA 36:25.000 --> 36:26.000 align:start CISNEROS AND ADRIAN SCHRAMM. 36:26.000 --> 36:45.000 align:start TAKE A LOOK. 36:45.000 --> 36:47.000 align:start >> GOING BACK TO THE 36:47.000 --> 36:48.000 align:start RESERVATION, ACROSS THE SMALL 36:48.000 --> 36:50.000 align:start BRIDGE INTO St. PAUL. 36:50.000 --> 36:52.000 align:start I FEEL THE TROUBLED WATERS. 36:52.000 --> 36:54.000 align:start I THINK OF MY GRANDFATHER'S 36:54.000 --> 36:55.000 align:start PEOPLE, THE DAKOTA. 36:55.000 --> 36:57.000 align:start I THINK OF HOW THEY LIVED BY 36:57.000 --> 36:58.000 align:start THE WATER. 36:58.000 --> 37:00.000 align:start BY THE -- HOW THEY MADE FIRE 37:00.000 --> 37:01.000 align:start BY THE WATER. 37:01.000 --> 37:04.000 align:start I THINK OF HOW MY PEOPLE, THE 37:04.000 --> 37:06.000 align:start DAKOTA, MY FAMILY, WERE TAKEN 37:06.000 --> 37:07.000 align:start TO FORT SNELLING PRISON. 37:07.000 --> 37:12.000 align:start I THINK OF MANY, MY FAMILY, 37:12.000 --> 37:13.000 align:start EVERY TIME I COME INTO 37:13.000 --> 37:15.000 align:start St. PAUL AND SEE THE 37:15.000 --> 37:16.000 align:start HISTORIC SITE. 37:16.000 --> 37:20.000 align:start I THINK ABOUT THE -- 37:20.000 --> 37:21.000 align:start THINK OF HOW MY FAMILY WATCHED 37:21.000 --> 37:29.000 align:start THEIR PEOPLE HANG ALTOGETHER. 37:29.000 --> 37:31.000 align:start THE LIGHTS REFLECTING. 37:31.000 --> 37:32.000 align:start HEAR THEM. 37:32.000 --> 37:34.000 align:start THE TIRES SCREECHING, HORNS 37:34.000 --> 37:38.000 align:start HONKING, DISTRACT ME. 37:38.000 --> 37:41.000 align:start ANOTHER HISTORIC SITE, FORT 37:41.000 --> 37:42.000 align:start SNELLING AHEAD. 37:42.000 --> 37:44.000 align:start ALL I HAVE IS DIRTY WATER 37:44.000 --> 37:45.000 align:start UNDER A BRIDGE. 37:45.000 --> 37:46.000 align:start I DON'T HAVE THEIR VOICES. 37:46.000 --> 37:49.000 align:start I DON'T HAVE THEIR WORDS. 37:49.000 --> 37:50.000 align:start SO I DRIVE INTO St. PAUL AND 37:50.000 --> 37:54.000 align:start PARK MY CAR, WALK AMONGST THE 37:54.000 --> 37:55.000 align:start COLD LEAVES BACK TO MY 37:55.000 --> 37:56.000 align:start APARTMENT BUILDING. 37:56.000 --> 38:23.000 align:start I MANAGE A SMALL PLACE. 38:23.000 --> 38:25.000 align:start >> ON A WARM AFTERNOON, LAY 38:25.000 --> 38:26.000 align:start MAY, A YELLOW St. PAUL 38:26.000 --> 38:29.000 align:start SCHOOL BUS HUFS AND PUFFS DOWN 38:29.000 --> 38:30.000 align:start RESIDENTIAL STREETS. 38:30.000 --> 38:32.000 align:start KIDS, NOISY ON THEIR WAY HOME. 38:32.000 --> 38:33.000 align:start KIDS EXCITED BECAUSE IT'S 38:33.000 --> 38:34.000 align:start ALMOST SUMMER AND SOON SCHOOL 38:34.000 --> 38:35.000 align:start WILL BE OUT. 38:35.000 --> 38:37.000 align:start I AM 6 YEARS OLD. 38:37.000 --> 38:38.000 align:start SCRAWNY AND LOUD-MOUTHED, 38:38.000 --> 38:39.000 align:start ALMOST 7. 38:39.000 --> 38:40.000 align:start I HAVE ONE FRIEND ON THE BUS 38:40.000 --> 38:42.000 align:start AND HIS NAME IS AARON. 38:42.000 --> 38:44.000 align:start AARON McKINLEY. 38:44.000 --> 38:45.000 align:start McKINLEY, LIKE THE 38:45.000 --> 38:45.000 align:start PRESIDENT. 38:45.000 --> 38:46.000 align:start McKINLEY, LIKE THE MOUNTAIN. 38:46.000 --> 38:47.000 align:start HE'S A BEST FRIEND, ONE WHO 38:47.000 --> 38:49.000 align:start SHARES HIS SANDWICH WITH ME AT 38:49.000 --> 38:49.000 align:start LUNCHTIME. 38:49.000 --> 38:51.000 align:start WE ENJOY THE BUS RIDE HOME 38:51.000 --> 38:52.000 align:start TOGETHER, TALKING ABOUT 38:52.000 --> 38:53.000 align:start CARTOONS AND SUPERHEROES. 38:53.000 --> 38:55.000 align:start THEY SAY EVERY SCHOOL HAS A 38:55.000 --> 38:55.000 align:start BULLY. 38:55.000 --> 38:56.000 align:start I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S TRUE, 38:56.000 --> 38:58.000 align:start BUT OUR SCHOOL SURE DOES. 38:58.000 --> 39:01.000 align:start A BIG, MEAN KID WITH A BOWL 39:01.000 --> 39:03.000 align:start CUT AND SCAR RUNNING DOWN HIS 39:03.000 --> 39:04.000 align:start CHEEK. 39:04.000 --> 39:06.000 align:start HE RIDES MY BUS TO AND FROM 39:06.000 --> 39:07.000 align:start SCHOOL AS WELL. 39:07.000 --> 39:08.000 align:start EVERY DAY THE VOICE IN THE 39:08.000 --> 39:09.000 align:start BACK SEAT CAN BE HEARD OVER 39:09.000 --> 39:11.000 align:start ALL THE OTHERS. 39:11.000 --> 39:12.000 align:start LAUGHTER, SILENCE. 39:12.000 --> 39:14.000 align:start HIS NAME IS JOE. 39:14.000 --> 39:16.000 align:start NO LAST NAME, JUST JOE. 39:16.000 --> 39:18.000 align:start ON THIS ONE AFTERNOON, JOE WAS 39:18.000 --> 39:19.000 align:start PICKING ON AARON. 39:19.000 --> 39:20.000 align:start CALLING HIM NAMES, HITTING HIM 39:20.000 --> 39:23.000 align:start WITH A SHARP METAL EDGE OF A 39:23.000 --> 39:23.000 align:start RURAL. 39:23.000 --> 39:25.000 align:start I SAY, CUT IT OUT. 39:25.000 --> 39:25.000 align:start RULER. 39:25.000 --> 39:26.000 align:start AND THE BULLY'S EYES TURNED 39:26.000 --> 39:26.000 align:start TO ME. 39:26.000 --> 39:28.000 align:start I KNOW THOSE EYES, BLACK, LIKE 39:28.000 --> 39:30.000 align:start A SHARK'S GOING IN FOR THE 39:30.000 --> 39:30.000 align:start KILL. 39:30.000 --> 39:32.000 align:start JOE TACKLES ME, POUNDING MY 39:32.000 --> 39:34.000 align:start SMALL STOMACH AND RIB CAGE 39:34.000 --> 39:36.000 align:start FRAGILE LIKE TOOTHPICKS. 39:36.000 --> 39:37.000 align:start MY HEAD BEATS REPEATEDLY 39:37.000 --> 39:38.000 align:start AGAINST THE WINDOW BEHIND ME. 39:38.000 --> 39:41.000 align:start I'M 6 YEARS OLD. 39:41.000 --> 39:41.000 align:start SCRAWNY. 39:41.000 --> 39:43.000 align:start I HAVE A BIG MOUTH. 39:43.000 --> 39:45.000 align:start THE BUS DOESN'T SEEM SO LOUD 39:45.000 --> 39:45.000 align:start ANYMORE. 39:45.000 --> 39:46.000 align:start THE BEATING STOPS SUDDENLY AND 39:46.000 --> 39:47.000 align:start JOE IS AGAIN AT THE BACK OF 39:47.000 --> 39:48.000 align:start THE BUS. 39:48.000 --> 39:49.000 align:start THE OTHER KIDS MOVE OUT OF THE 39:49.000 --> 39:51.000 align:start WAY FOR HIM AND STARTING TO 39:51.000 --> 39:53.000 align:start WISH I HAD DONE THE SAME. 39:53.000 --> 39:55.000 align:start BUT I RESPECT -- BUT THEY 39:55.000 --> 39:57.000 align:start RESPECT HIM, I WONDER WHY I 39:57.000 --> 39:57.000 align:start DON'T. 39:57.000 --> 40:00.000 align:start DEFEATED, VANQUISHED, BLEEDING 40:00.000 --> 40:01.000 align:start AT THE FRONT OF THE BUS. 40:01.000 --> 40:03.000 align:start AARON LOOKS OUT THE WINDOW. 40:03.000 --> 40:04.000 align:start HE WATCHES TREES AND HOUSES 40:04.000 --> 40:04.000 align:start ROLL BY. 40:04.000 --> 40:05.000 align:start HE DOESN'T LOOK AT ME. 40:05.000 --> 40:07.000 align:start HE IGNORES ME AND RESPECTS 40:07.000 --> 40:08.000 align:start JOE. 40:08.000 --> 40:10.000 align:start MY NOSE IS STILL BLEEDING AS I 40:10.000 --> 40:12.000 align:start GET OFF AT MY STOP AND THE BUS 40:12.000 --> 40:13.000 align:start DRIVER HASN'T EVEN NOTICED. 40:13.000 --> 40:14.000 align:start SEE YOU TOMORROW. 40:14.000 --> 40:15.000 align:start I RUN HOME. 40:15.000 --> 40:17.000 align:start BURSTING INTO THE KITCHEN OUT 40:17.000 --> 40:18.000 align:start OF STRESS WITH WET CHEEKS AND 40:18.000 --> 40:21.000 align:start RED EYES, THE NINJA TURTLE 40:21.000 --> 40:22.000 align:start BACKPACK SLIDES FROM MY 40:22.000 --> 40:24.000 align:start SHOULDERS AND I LET IT HIT THE 40:24.000 --> 40:24.000 align:start FLOOR. 40:24.000 --> 40:25.000 align:start I'M NOT CRYING AS MY MOTHER 40:25.000 --> 40:28.000 align:start COMES IN TO ASK HOW MY DAY IS. 40:28.000 --> 40:30.000 align:start SHE CAN TELL SOMETHING IS 40:30.000 --> 40:30.000 align:start WRONG. 40:30.000 --> 40:31.000 align:start SHE ASKED WHAT HAPPENED? 40:31.000 --> 40:32.000 align:start WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR NOSE? 40:32.000 --> 40:36.000 align:start I GET A HUG, PEANUT BUTTER AND 40:36.000 --> 40:40.000 align:start JELLY SANDWICH, MY MOTHER IS A 40:40.000 --> 40:42.000 align:start SUPERHERO, ALWAYS HAS A SNACK, 40:42.000 --> 40:43.000 align:start JUICE BOX, COLD GLASS OF MILK 40:43.000 --> 40:44.000 align:start TO WASH IT OUT. 40:44.000 --> 40:46.000 align:start I SEE AARON THE NEXT MODERN 40:46.000 --> 40:48.000 align:start ARE MORNING ON THE SCHOOL BUS. 40:48.000 --> 40:51.000 align:start HE GIVES ME A FRUIT ROLLUP. 40:51.000 --> 40:53.000 align:start I SAY, AARON, MY MOM IS COOLER 40:53.000 --> 40:54.000 align:start THAN YOU. 40:54.000 --> 40:56.000 align:start IS SHE COOLER THAN BATMAN? 40:56.000 --> 40:57.000 align:start YEAH. 40:57.000 --> 40:58.000 align:start YEARS LATER AS MY MOTHER LIES 40:58.000 --> 41:00.000 align:start ON A STERILIZED WHITE BED IN A 41:00.000 --> 41:01.000 align:start HOSPITAL ROOM THAT SMELLS OF 41:01.000 --> 41:02.000 align:start MEDICATION AND CHLOROFORM, I 41:02.000 --> 41:05.000 align:start THINK THINK ABOUT THAT DAY. 41:05.000 --> 41:07.000 align:start IT'S 2004, I'M NOT 6 YEARS OLD 41:07.000 --> 41:08.000 align:start ANYMORE. 41:08.000 --> 41:10.000 align:start I'M 16 NOW, ALMOST 17. 41:10.000 --> 41:11.000 align:start IT'S MY TURN TO TAKE CARE OF 41:11.000 --> 41:12.000 align:start HER, ALTHOUGH THERE'S NO WAY I 41:12.000 --> 41:13.000 align:start CAN SUCCEED. 41:13.000 --> 41:14.000 align:start I AM NO ANGEL, NO POWER 41:14.000 --> 41:15.000 align:start RANGER. 41:15.000 --> 41:17.000 align:start MY MOTHER'S BEING BULLIED NOW 41:17.000 --> 41:19.000 align:start AND THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO. 41:19.000 --> 41:21.000 align:start BULLIED BY LEUKEMIA. 41:21.000 --> 41:22.000 align:start NO LAST NAME, JUST LEUKEMIA. 41:22.000 --> 41:23.000 align:start I SAY, CUT IT OUT. 41:23.000 --> 41:25.000 align:start BUT THE BULLY IGNORES ME. 41:25.000 --> 41:27.000 align:start I AM NO SUPERHERO. 41:27.000 --> 41:29.000 align:start I THINK OF THE LOUD-MOUTH 41:29.000 --> 41:30.000 align:start FIRST GRADER WHO THOUGHT HE 41:30.000 --> 41:32.000 align:start COULD STAND UP FOR HIS FRIEND. 41:32.000 --> 41:33.000 align:start I THINK OF THE QUEEN OF THE 41:33.000 --> 41:35.000 align:start KITCHEN LYING THERE. 41:35.000 --> 41:36.000 align:start I WISH PRESIDENT McKINLEY 41:36.000 --> 41:38.000 align:start WOULD BRING ME A FRUIT ROLLUP 41:38.000 --> 41:39.000 align:start AND A JUICE BOX. 41:39.000 --> 41:41.000 align:start I WISH I HAD THE STRENGTH OF A 41:41.000 --> 41:43.000 align:start THOUSAND PEANUT BUTTER AND 41:43.000 --> 41:44.000 align:start JELLY SANDWICHES. 41:44.000 --> 41:45.000 align:start I WISH MY MOTHER COULD COME 41:45.000 --> 41:46.000 align:start BACK TO THE KITCHEN WHERE A 41:46.000 --> 41:48.000 align:start HUG AND A SNACK COULD MAKE 41:48.000 --> 42:15.000 align:start EVERYTHING OKAY. 42:15.000 --> 42:37.000 align:start Cheers and applause 42:37.000 --> 42:39.000 align:start >> WE NEVER REACH OUR FAULTS 42:39.000 --> 42:40.000 align:start AT FIRST GLANCE. 42:40.000 --> 42:42.000 align:start WE TRY TO ACHIEVE STANDARDS, 42:42.000 --> 42:45.000 align:start NEVER CREATED BY US. 42:45.000 --> 42:47.000 align:start STANDARDS AIMED TO DEFEAT US. 42:47.000 --> 42:49.000 align:start WE'VE BEEN PROGRAMMED TO NEVER 42:49.000 --> 42:50.000 align:start BE COMFORTABLE IN OUR OWN 42:50.000 --> 42:52.000 align:start SKIN. 42:52.000 --> 42:53.000 align:start SEE OURSELVES LESS THAN. 42:53.000 --> 42:58.000 align:start SEE OUR LIVES AS SIN. 42:58.000 --> 43:00.000 align:start WE PLANT SO MUCH IN US, WE'RE 43:00.000 --> 43:01.000 align:start NEVER CERTAIN OF OUR POTENTIAL 43:01.000 --> 43:03.000 align:start BECAUSE FEAR HAS BEEN BEAT 43:03.000 --> 43:05.000 align:start INTO US TILL IT BECOMES 43:05.000 --> 43:06.000 align:start INNATE, MAKING IT EASIER TO 43:06.000 --> 43:08.000 align:start WANT THINGS THAT ARE NEVER AT 43:08.000 --> 43:10.000 align:start OUR REACH. 43:10.000 --> 43:14.000 align:start WHAT OUR PALATES NEVER SAVIOR, 43:14.000 --> 43:15.000 align:start LABOR, NEVER TASTED. 43:15.000 --> 43:17.000 align:start SO WE TASTE PARADISE, PASTE 43:17.000 --> 43:18.000 align:start THEM LIKE THE WINNING LOTTERY 43:18.000 --> 43:19.000 align:start TICKETS, TASTE THEM LIKE THEY 43:19.000 --> 43:22.000 align:start ARE ANSWERS BEHIND THE WHITE 43:22.000 --> 43:24.000 align:start PICKET FENCES. 43:24.000 --> 43:25.000 align:start BLINDED BY LIES. 43:25.000 --> 43:26.000 align:start BLINDED BY TRUCE. 43:26.000 --> 43:28.000 align:start WE'VE SEEN THEIR REFLECTIONS, 43:28.000 --> 43:30.000 align:start OUR SKIN TONE FAULTS 43:30.000 --> 43:34.000 align:start ASSOCIATED WITH OUR COMPLEC 43:34.000 --> 43:36.000 align:start ON, BEHINDED I -- BLINDED BY 43:36.000 --> 43:38.000 align:start THE MISSING ACTION OF HOPE. 43:38.000 --> 43:39.000 align:start COMPLEXION. 43:39.000 --> 43:40.000 align:start THAT WE FORGET TO SEE WHAT'S 43:40.000 --> 43:42.000 align:start AROUND US, WHAT MAKES US. 43:42.000 --> 43:43.000 align:start THE PERSEVERING PEOPLE WE ARE. 43:43.000 --> 43:45.000 align:start THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE WE ARE. 43:45.000 --> 43:46.000 align:start WHAT WE WILL BE. 43:46.000 --> 43:47.000 align:start WHAT WE CAN BE. 43:47.000 --> 43:49.000 align:start OUR PARADISE DOES NOT RESIDE 43:49.000 --> 43:50.000 align:start IN CLOUDS. 43:50.000 --> 43:52.000 align:start WE BUILD IT WITH OUR OWN 43:52.000 --> 43:54.000 align:start STORIES, WITH OUR FLINT 43:54.000 --> 43:55.000 align:start TONGUES, WHO SPITFIRE AND GIVE 43:55.000 --> 43:57.000 align:start BIRTH TO THE FLAMES THAT FUEL 43:57.000 --> 43:57.000 align:start US. 43:57.000 --> 43:59.000 align:start THAT GUIDE US AS WE BUILD WHAT 43:59.000 --> 44:01.000 align:start ONCE WAS FORGOTTEN. 44:01.000 --> 44:04.000 align:start OUR PARADISE NEEDS NOT TO BE 44:04.000 --> 44:05.000 align:start CHASED, IT NEEDS TO BE BUILT 44:05.000 --> 44:07.000 align:start WITH OUR OWN BRICKS AND WE 44:07.000 --> 44:09.000 align:start START THIS PARADISE WITH YOUR 44:09.000 --> 44:11.000 align:start VOICE. 44:11.000 --> 44:26.000 align:start Cheers and applause 44:26.000 --> 44:29.000 align:start >> THE WOODS AT HIDDEN FALLS 44:29.000 --> 44:31.000 align:start ECHOED WITH THE CRUNCH OF 44:31.000 --> 44:34.000 align:start BOOTS AND THE SNAPPING OF DRY 44:34.000 --> 44:35.000 align:start STICKS. 44:35.000 --> 44:38.000 align:start HOW MUCH LONGER, MY YOUNG SON, 44:38.000 --> 44:41.000 align:start JOHN BUSINESS WANTED TO KNOW. 44:41.000 --> 44:43.000 align:start MY DAUGHTER DANIELLE WAS 44:43.000 --> 44:44.000 align:start IMPATIENT, TOO. 44:44.000 --> 44:45.000 align:start WHAT DID YOU SAY WE WERE 44:45.000 --> 44:47.000 align:start LOOKING FOR? 44:47.000 --> 44:49.000 align:start YES, MY BRIDE, RACHEL JOINED 44:49.000 --> 44:53.000 align:start IN, WHAT IS IT EXACTLY? 44:53.000 --> 44:54.000 align:start SOMETHING YOU'LL NEVER SEE 44:54.000 --> 44:55.000 align:start AGAIN. 44:55.000 --> 44:57.000 align:start I SAID. 44:57.000 --> 45:00.000 align:start IT WAS 1994. 45:00.000 --> 45:02.000 align:start AND I WAS LURING MY KIDS OUT 45:02.000 --> 45:06.000 align:start INTO THE COLD TO SHOW THEM 45:06.000 --> 45:09.000 align:start SOMETHING REMARKABLE. 45:09.000 --> 45:12.000 align:start WE CAME TO A CLEARING. 45:12.000 --> 45:14.000 align:start OUR BREATH FROSTING UP BEFORE 45:14.000 --> 45:15.000 align:start US. 45:15.000 --> 45:17.000 align:start IT'S HERE. 45:17.000 --> 45:19.000 align:start I ANNOUNCED. 45:19.000 --> 45:23.000 align:start THERE WAS NO SOUND BUT THE 45:23.000 --> 45:25.000 align:start GENTLE POOF OF SNOW CLUMPS 45:25.000 --> 45:28.000 align:start LANDING. 45:28.000 --> 45:29.000 align:start THEN JOHN CRIED OUT. 45:29.000 --> 45:31.000 align:start I SEE IT! 45:31.000 --> 45:35.000 align:start HE POINTED UP INTO THE LOWER 45:35.000 --> 45:39.000 align:start REACHES OF A COTTONWOOD. 45:39.000 --> 45:40.000 align:start THERE, ABOUT TEN FEET UP, WAS 45:40.000 --> 45:43.000 align:start A RUSTED BICYCLE. 45:43.000 --> 45:46.000 align:start IT WAS NOT SITTING IN A 45:46.000 --> 45:47.000 align:start BRANCH. 45:47.000 --> 45:49.000 align:start RATHER, THE BRANCH HAD GROWN 45:49.000 --> 45:52.000 align:start AROUND THE BICYCLE. 45:52.000 --> 45:56.000 align:start THE RIDING BAR WAS ENCLOSED IN 45:56.000 --> 45:58.000 align:start WOOD. 45:58.000 --> 46:01.000 align:start WOW, DANIELLE SAID. 46:01.000 --> 46:04.000 align:start I CAME ACROSS IT A FEW DAYS 46:04.000 --> 46:04.000 align:start EARLIER. 46:04.000 --> 46:06.000 align:start WALKING THE DOG. 46:06.000 --> 46:09.000 align:start I PASSED THAT SPOT A HUNDRED 46:09.000 --> 46:11.000 align:start TIMES AND NEVER NOTICED. 46:11.000 --> 46:14.000 align:start WHO LOOKS UP IN CASE THERE'S A 46:14.000 --> 46:18.000 align:start BICYCLE IN A TREE? 46:18.000 --> 46:20.000 align:start BASED ON THE CORROSION, I 46:20.000 --> 46:21.000 align:start GUESSED THE BICYCLE HAD BEEN 46:21.000 --> 46:25.000 align:start IN THE TREE FOR 40 YEARS. 46:25.000 --> 46:28.000 align:start IT WAS ALL RUSTED EXCEPT FOR 46:28.000 --> 46:30.000 align:start THE BLUE FRAME. 46:30.000 --> 46:33.000 align:start THE FOUR OF US WERE GIDDY AT 46:33.000 --> 46:34.000 align:start THE IDEA OF A BICYCLE GROWING 46:34.000 --> 46:37.000 align:start IN A TREE. 46:37.000 --> 46:38.000 align:start DID SOMEONE LEAN IT AGAINST 46:38.000 --> 46:42.000 align:start THE TREE AND THE TREE SLOWLY 46:42.000 --> 46:45.000 align:start REACHED OUT AND LIFTED IT UP 46:45.000 --> 46:47.000 align:start AN INCH A YEAR? 46:47.000 --> 46:50.000 align:start UP INTO THE SKY. 46:50.000 --> 46:52.000 align:start OR DID SOMEONE JUST THROW IT 46:52.000 --> 46:53.000 align:start UP THERE? 46:53.000 --> 46:55.000 align:start AND THE TREE GRABBED ONTO IT. 46:55.000 --> 46:59.000 align:start AND ABSORBED IT IN ITS WOOD. 46:59.000 --> 47:02.000 align:start DID THE BIKE THINK IT WAS 47:02.000 --> 47:02.000 align:start FLYING? 47:02.000 --> 47:04.000 align:start DID THE TREE THINK IT WAS 47:04.000 --> 47:08.000 align:start RIDING? 47:08.000 --> 47:09.000 align:start EVERYONE AGREED, WE SHOULD 47:09.000 --> 47:14.000 align:start KEEP OUR EYES PEELED FOR OTHER 47:14.000 --> 47:14.000 align:start ANOMALIES. 47:14.000 --> 47:18.000 align:start THEY MUST BE EVERYWHERE, WE 47:18.000 --> 47:19.000 align:start REASONED. 47:19.000 --> 47:21.000 align:start BUT THE NEXT TIME I CAME TO 47:21.000 --> 47:25.000 align:start THE CLEARING, IN SPRING, BY 47:25.000 --> 47:28.000 align:start MYSELF, NOT ONLY WAS THE 47:28.000 --> 47:32.000 align:start BICYCLE GONE, SO WAS THE TREE. 47:32.000 --> 47:36.000 align:start OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS, 47:36.000 --> 47:38.000 align:start I GENTLY OBSESSED ABOUT 47:38.000 --> 47:41.000 align:start FINDING THAT BIKE. 47:41.000 --> 47:43.000 align:start SOMETIMES I THOUGHT I GLIMPSED 47:43.000 --> 47:44.000 align:start IT. 47:44.000 --> 47:47.000 align:start BUT IT WAS JUST A CURL OF 47:47.000 --> 47:50.000 align:start RIVER BANK VINE. 47:50.000 --> 47:52.000 align:start PRETENDING TO BE REAL. 47:52.000 --> 47:55.000 align:start OR THE COLOR OF ROT, 47:55.000 --> 47:57.000 align:start PRETENDING TO BE RUST. 47:57.000 --> 48:00.000 align:start WHAT THE EARTH LIFTED UP, IT 48:00.000 --> 48:03.000 align:start THEN TOOK BACK. 48:03.000 --> 48:06.000 align:start EVERYTHING WAS IN ON IT, EVERY 48:06.000 --> 48:08.000 align:start FALLING LEAF HID IT. 48:08.000 --> 48:10.000 align:start EVERY CLUMP OF SNOW COVERED IT 48:10.000 --> 48:13.000 align:start UP. 48:13.000 --> 48:16.000 align:start EVERY FOOT FALL SANK IT DEEPER 48:16.000 --> 48:19.000 align:start INTO THE GROUND. 48:19.000 --> 48:21.000 align:start IT ALL GOES. 48:21.000 --> 48:24.000 align:start MY CHILDREN ARE GROWN. 48:24.000 --> 48:27.000 align:start AND ONE OF THEM IS GONE. 48:27.000 --> 48:32.000 align:start BUT IN 1994, WE SAW A BICYCLE 48:32.000 --> 48:37.000 align:start RIDE THROUGH THE SKY. 48:37.000 --> 48:41.000 align:start ITS WHEELS STILL TURNING IN A 48:41.000 --> 48:51.000 align:start BREEZE FROM UP THE RIVER. 48:51.000 --> 48:56.000 align:start NAYING 48:56.000 --> 49:00.000 align:start NEIGHING 49:00.000 --> 49:10.000 align:start CHEERS 49:10.000 --> 49:11.000 align:start >> Adia: WE ARE BACK IN THE 49:11.000 --> 49:11.000 align:start STUDIO. 49:11.000 --> 49:13.000 align:start AND IT LOOKS LIKE THIS IS 49:13.000 --> 49:16.000 align:start ALMOST MAYBE POSSIBLY STILL IN 49:16.000 --> 49:16.000 align:start PROGRESS. 49:16.000 --> 49:17.000 align:start DONE. 49:17.000 --> 49:18.000 align:start Laughter 49:18.000 --> 49:18.000 align:start >> RIGHT. 49:18.000 --> 49:19.000 align:start YOU GOT ME. 49:19.000 --> 49:19.000 align:start THAT'S RIGHT. 49:19.000 --> 49:20.000 align:start >> Adia: YEAH, IT WAS GOING 49:20.000 --> 49:21.000 align:start TO BE A BIG REVEAL BUT I DON'T 49:21.000 --> 49:22.000 align:start THINK THAT ART IS EVER 49:22.000 --> 49:23.000 align:start FINISHED, MAYBE. 49:23.000 --> 49:24.000 align:start >> EXACTLY. 49:24.000 --> 49:24.000 align:start >> Adia: YEAH. 49:24.000 --> 49:25.000 align:start >> EXACTLY. 49:25.000 --> 49:26.000 align:start >> Adia: WELL, WE'VE BEEN ON 49:26.000 --> 49:30.000 align:start A LONG JOURNEY OF ARE YOU 49:30.000 --> 49:33.000 align:start GOING TONIGHT? 49:33.000 --> 49:33.000 align:start TONIGHT OUR FINAL STORY COMES 49:33.000 --> 49:34.000 align:start TO US FROM WRITER SIMOUKDA 49:34.000 --> 49:35.000 align:start VONGSAY, AND IS APPROPRITAELY 49:35.000 --> 49:50.000 align:start TITLED FINDING HOME. 49:50.000 --> 49:51.000 align:start >> MY MOM SAID THEY ALREADY 49:51.000 --> 49:52.000 align:start KNEW THAT THE COMMUNIST 49:52.000 --> 49:54.000 align:start SOLDIERS WERE ON THEIR WAY TO 49:54.000 --> 49:56.000 align:start THE FATHER'S HOUSE. 49:56.000 --> 49:58.000 align:start BECAUSE HE WAS A PROVINCIAL 49:58.000 --> 49:59.000 align:start GOVERNOR, HE WAS ONE OF THE 49:59.000 --> 50:01.000 align:start FIRST ON THEIR LIST. 50:01.000 --> 50:06.000 align:start THEY HAD MANY LISTS. 50:06.000 --> 50:07.000 align:start MY MOTHER NEVER TOLD ME MORE 50:07.000 --> 50:09.000 align:start THAN THAT. 50:09.000 --> 50:10.000 align:start SADLY, WHEN THE FLOODING OF 50:10.000 --> 50:12.000 align:start MEMORIES SLOWED HER BREATHING, 50:12.000 --> 50:13.000 align:start SO THE STORIES THAT I DON'T 50:13.000 --> 50:16.000 align:start KNOW I IMAGINE. 50:16.000 --> 50:18.000 align:start I IMAGINE THAT I WAS IN MY 50:18.000 --> 50:19.000 align:start MOTHER'S BELLY WHEN THEY WERE 50:19.000 --> 50:21.000 align:start HEADING TOWARDS THE RIVER. 50:21.000 --> 50:23.000 align:start MY BROTHER WAS ABOUT A YEAR 50:23.000 --> 50:24.000 align:start AND A HALF. 50:24.000 --> 50:25.000 align:start THEY SAID HE WAS A GOOD BABY, 50:25.000 --> 50:27.000 align:start NEVER CRIED. 50:27.000 --> 50:29.000 align:start THEY DIDN'T DRAG HIM WITH -- 50:29.000 --> 50:31.000 align:start DRUG HIM WITH OPIUM AS THE 50:31.000 --> 50:32.000 align:start OTHERS HAD BEEN. 50:32.000 --> 50:33.000 align:start SOME OF THE CHILDREN NEVER 50:33.000 --> 50:34.000 align:start WOKE UP AND WERE BURIED ALONG 50:34.000 --> 50:35.000 align:start THE WAY. 50:35.000 --> 50:37.000 align:start LIKE BREAD CRUMBS IN A 50:37.000 --> 50:38.000 align:start MESSED-UP FAIRY TALE, 50:38.000 --> 50:39.000 align:start REMINDING THEM HOW TO FIND 50:39.000 --> 50:41.000 align:start THEIR HOMES AGAIN. 50:41.000 --> 50:43.000 align:start I FELT MY MOTHER'S HEART BEGIN 50:43.000 --> 50:44.000 align:start TO PUMP FAST WHEN THEY REACHED 50:44.000 --> 50:45.000 align:start THE RIVER. 50:45.000 --> 50:46.000 align:start INSTINCTIVELY, I REACHED 50:46.000 --> 50:48.000 align:start UPWARDS AND MASSAGED IT WITH 50:48.000 --> 50:51.000 align:start MY TRANSPARENT HAND. 50:51.000 --> 50:52.000 align:start SHE NEVER LEARNED HOW TO SWIM, 50:52.000 --> 50:54.000 align:start HAVING BEEN RAISED IN THE 50:54.000 --> 50:54.000 align:start CITY. 50:54.000 --> 50:55.000 align:start NOT LIKE MY FATHER, WHO WAS 50:55.000 --> 50:57.000 align:start RAISED IN THE COUNTRYSIDE AND 50:57.000 --> 50:58.000 align:start HAD SWUM THIS RIVER BEFORE. 50:58.000 --> 51:00.000 align:start SO HE WASN'T AFRAID. 51:00.000 --> 51:02.000 align:start HE'S NEVER AFRAID. 51:02.000 --> 51:07.000 align:start EVEN WHEN HE PASSED THE DIRT 51:07.000 --> 51:09.000 align:start ROAD TO ASK FOR MY MOTHER'S 51:09.000 --> 51:10.000 align:start HAND IN MARRIAGE. 51:10.000 --> 51:11.000 align:start EVEN WHEN EVERYONE ON BOTH 51:11.000 --> 51:13.000 align:start SIDES SAID IT WAS A BAD IDEA, 51:13.000 --> 51:15.000 align:start A COUNTRY PUMPKIN AND A 51:15.000 --> 51:16.000 align:start GOVERNOR'S DAUGHTER, BUT HERE 51:16.000 --> 51:19.000 align:start THEY ARE, EVERYONE FROM BOTH 51:19.000 --> 51:20.000 align:start SIDES STANDING IN FRONT OF THE 51:20.000 --> 51:22.000 align:start RIVER, ESCAPING TO THE SAME 51:22.000 --> 51:24.000 align:start PLACE. 51:24.000 --> 51:26.000 align:start COUNTRY BUMPKIN. 51:26.000 --> 51:29.000 align:start MY MOTHER SAID, DUMP THAT 51:29.000 --> 51:29.000 align:start PLASTIC BAG. 51:29.000 --> 51:31.000 align:start TO HELP THEM CROSS THE RIVER 51:31.000 --> 51:34.000 align:start BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T SWIM. 51:34.000 --> 51:39.000 align:start ALONG THE SHORE, ON THE LAO 51:39.000 --> 51:40.000 align:start SIDE, HUSBANDS INFLATED BAGS 51:40.000 --> 51:41.000 align:start AS FAST AS THEY COULD FOR 51:41.000 --> 51:43.000 align:start THEIR WIVES. 51:43.000 --> 51:44.000 align:start WHO CARRIED THEIR BREABS ON 51:44.000 --> 51:45.000 align:start THEIR BACK. 51:45.000 --> 51:47.000 align:start -- BABIES ON THEIR BACK. 51:47.000 --> 51:48.000 align:start IN THE MUDDY RIVER, BLACK 51:48.000 --> 51:51.000 align:start HEADS SOBBING, BLACK PLASTIC 51:51.000 --> 51:53.000 align:start BAGS KEEPING BLACK HEADS FROM 51:53.000 --> 51:54.000 align:start DROWNING, KEEPING BLACK HEADS 51:54.000 --> 51:55.000 align:start ABOVE WATER. 51:55.000 --> 51:56.000 align:start SOMETIMES PEOPLE DIDN'T MAKE 51:56.000 --> 51:57.000 align:start IT ACROSS AND GOT TAKEN AWAY 51:57.000 --> 51:59.000 align:start BY THE CURRENT. 51:59.000 --> 52:00.000 align:start BUT, STILL, THEY HELD ONTO 52:00.000 --> 52:02.000 align:start THEIR BAGS, AFRAID OF 52:02.000 --> 52:04.000 align:start DROWNING. 52:04.000 --> 52:05.000 align:start SOME HUSBANDS GAVE THEMSELVES 52:05.000 --> 52:07.000 align:start TO THE UNSYMPATHETIC RIVER TO 52:07.000 --> 52:08.000 align:start HELP THEIR WIVES, SOME BLAMED 52:08.000 --> 52:09.000 align:start THEMSELVES FOR NOT INFLATING 52:09.000 --> 52:12.000 align:start THE BAGS BETTER. 52:12.000 --> 52:13.000 align:start ALONG THE SHORE, ON THE 52:13.000 --> 52:16.000 align:start THAILAND SIDE, HUSBAND HUGS 52:16.000 --> 52:18.000 align:start THE ONES THAT MADE IT WHILE 52:18.000 --> 52:19.000 align:start OTHERS FELL ON THEIR KNEES 52:19.000 --> 52:21.000 align:start WITH GRIEF. 52:21.000 --> 52:22.000 align:start MY FATHER DIDN'T HAVE A 52:22.000 --> 52:24.000 align:start PLASTIC BAG. 52:24.000 --> 52:27.000 align:start HE SWAM MY MOTHER ACROSS. 52:27.000 --> 52:28.000 align:start MY BROTHER TIED HIGH ON HIS 52:28.000 --> 52:29.000 align:start BACK. 52:29.000 --> 52:32.000 align:start AND ME STILL IN HER BELLY. 52:32.000 --> 52:33.000 align:start MASSAGING HER HEART WITH MY 52:33.000 --> 52:45.000 align:start HANDS. 52:45.000 --> 52:47.000 align:start >> MY WORD FOR St. PAUL IS 52:47.000 --> 52:48.000 align:start SOAR, BECAUSE I THINK IF YOU 52:48.000 --> 52:50.000 align:start LOOK AT ALL THE THINGS THAT 52:50.000 --> 52:51.000 align:start ARE HAPPENING IN THE CITY 52:51.000 --> 52:52.000 align:start RIGHT NOW, WE ARE NUMBER ONE 52:52.000 --> 52:53.000 align:start BECAUSE WE'RE NUMBER ONE IN 52:53.000 --> 52:54.000 align:start EDUCATION, MAKING SURE ALL OF 52:54.000 --> 52:57.000 align:start OUR KIDS LEARN AND SUCCEED. 52:57.000 --> 52:59.000 align:start WE'RE NUMBER ONE IN FANTASTIC 52:59.000 --> 53:00.000 align:start BEER, WHICH, OF COURSE, MAKES 53:00.000 --> 53:02.000 align:start EVERYTHING ELSE BETTER. 53:02.000 --> 53:03.000 align:start WE'VE GOT THE LIGHT RAIL. 53:03.000 --> 53:04.000 align:start WE'VE GOT THE PASSENGER RAIL. 53:04.000 --> 53:06.000 align:start WE'VE GOT ALL KINDS OF THINGS. 53:06.000 --> 53:07.000 align:start WHEN YOU PUT ALL OF THOSE 53:07.000 --> 53:10.000 align:start THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING 53:10.000 --> 53:26.000 align:start TOGETHER, St. PAUL SOARS. 53:26.000 --> 53:36.000 align:start Cheers and applause 53:36.000 --> 53:37.000 align:start >> BEFORE I WAS BORN, THERE 53:37.000 --> 53:39.000 align:start WAS MOVEMENT. 53:39.000 --> 53:41.000 align:start PADDLES PUSHING PENT-UP PEOPLE 53:41.000 --> 53:42.000 align:start THROUGH OCEANS OF PAIN. 53:42.000 --> 53:43.000 align:start THAT EXPLAINS MY FEAR OF 53:43.000 --> 53:44.000 align:start WATER. 53:44.000 --> 53:45.000 align:start WHEN I WAS BORN, THERE WAS 53:45.000 --> 53:48.000 align:start MOVEMENT STILL. 53:48.000 --> 53:50.000 align:start LINES, PATHS, ROADS, CIRCLES, 53:50.000 --> 53:51.000 align:start AND TRACKS. 53:51.000 --> 53:53.000 align:start CHECK IT. 53:53.000 --> 53:55.000 align:start I HAD MY FIRST PERM IN 53:55.000 --> 53:57.000 align:start ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, WITH MY 53:57.000 --> 53:59.000 align:start COARSE CURLY BLACK HAIR TO 53:59.000 --> 53:59.000 align:start STRAIGHT THIN. 53:59.000 --> 54:01.000 align:start THEN WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO, 54:01.000 --> 54:04.000 align:start BRAIDS, WEAVES, EXTENSIONS, 54:04.000 --> 54:05.000 align:start DUCK TAIL DESIGN ON THE SIDE 54:05.000 --> 54:07.000 align:start TYPE THING BUT BEFORE THAT I 54:07.000 --> 54:09.000 align:start ALSO WORE TRACKS. 54:09.000 --> 54:11.000 align:start HIGH SCHOOL, St. PAUL 54:11.000 --> 54:12.000 align:start CENTURY, BASEMENT BUILDING, 54:12.000 --> 54:13.000 align:start KIND OF LOOKS LIKE A PRISON, 54:13.000 --> 54:14.000 align:start KIND OF RAN LIKE ONE, TOO. 54:14.000 --> 54:16.000 align:start THE FIFTH FLOOR WAS FOR THE 54:16.000 --> 54:17.000 align:start ACADEMIC ACRONYMS, LIKE A.P. 54:17.000 --> 54:18.000 align:start AND I.B., THE FOURTH FLOOR WAS 54:18.000 --> 54:19.000 align:start FOR THE QUEST LEARNERS, SECOND 54:19.000 --> 54:22.000 align:start TO IT IS BEST GRADE POINT 54:22.000 --> 54:24.000 align:start AVERAGE EARNERS, THE THIRD WAS 54:24.000 --> 54:24.000 align:start WHATEVER, THE SECOND WAS 54:24.000 --> 54:26.000 align:start PASSED AND THE FIRST WAS US, 54:26.000 --> 54:27.000 align:start THE THEATER CLASS. 54:27.000 --> 54:29.000 align:start HOW WE WERE PLACED IN THIS 54:29.000 --> 54:31.000 align:start SYSTEM TRACKS. 54:31.000 --> 54:34.000 align:start MY NAME IS TISH JONES AND I'VE 54:34.000 --> 54:36.000 align:start BEEN CALLED HER HERE TO 54:36.000 --> 54:39.000 align:start REPRESENT ANCESTORS, AS HE 54:39.000 --> 54:41.000 align:start PLAYS IN THE SAND WHO BLESSED 54:41.000 --> 54:42.000 align:start HIM. 54:42.000 --> 54:43.000 align:start RAISED MEN TO RAISE MEN, 54:43.000 --> 54:45.000 align:start HENCE, THE SUN AND THE RAYS. 54:45.000 --> 54:46.000 align:start A GENERATION OF BEAUTIFUL 54:46.000 --> 54:49.000 align:start BLACK WOMEN, BORN AND BRED TO 54:49.000 --> 54:50.000 align:start BELIEVE THAT BEAUTY BELONGS TO 54:50.000 --> 54:51.000 align:start EVERYBODY BUT THEM. 54:51.000 --> 54:53.000 align:start THEY DIE, THEY TRY TO FIT IN 54:53.000 --> 54:56.000 align:start IN MANY WAYS, TRACKS ON THEIR 54:56.000 --> 54:57.000 align:start THIGHS. 54:57.000 --> 54:58.000 align:start AND SHE IS ALL RIGHT WITH 54:58.000 --> 54:58.000 align:start THAT. 54:58.000 --> 55:00.000 align:start THEY CALL HER A RUNNER. 55:00.000 --> 55:02.000 align:start MAKING LAPS ON LAPS, KNOWN AS 55:02.000 --> 55:03.000 align:start A TRACK STAR, SHE ALSO ALSO 55:03.000 --> 55:04.000 align:start RIGHT ON TRACK. 55:04.000 --> 55:06.000 align:start THEN THERE'S THE LITTLE BOY 55:06.000 --> 55:07.000 align:start WHOSE FATHER WAS SENT AWAY 55:07.000 --> 55:08.000 align:start YESTERDAY. 55:08.000 --> 55:09.000 align:start YOU SEE, HE'S HAVING A BAD 55:09.000 --> 55:09.000 align:start DAY. 55:09.000 --> 55:10.000 align:start SO HE ANSWERED THE TEST 55:10.000 --> 55:11.000 align:start QUESTIONS IN THE WRONG WAY. 55:11.000 --> 55:13.000 align:start YEAH, HE'S IN THE HALLWAY, 55:13.000 --> 55:14.000 align:start FRUSTRATED, FIGHTING TO KEEP 55:14.000 --> 55:15.000 align:start HIS TEARS TO HIMSELF. 55:15.000 --> 55:16.000 align:start SHE WALKS BY. 55:16.000 --> 55:17.000 align:start SMART. 55:17.000 --> 55:18.000 align:start SKINNY. 55:18.000 --> 55:19.000 align:start MAKES FAILING A TEST SEEM 55:19.000 --> 55:19.000 align:start HARD. 55:19.000 --> 55:21.000 align:start IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME, PEEK 55:21.000 --> 55:22.000 align:start AT THE REPORT CARD. 55:22.000 --> 55:24.000 align:start SHE AND I HE WERE COOL. 55:24.000 --> 55:26.000 align:start WENT TO THE SAME SCHOOL, DO 55:26.000 --> 55:27.000 align:start WHAT TWO BEST FRIENDS WOULD 55:27.000 --> 55:28.000 align:start NORMALLY DO. 55:28.000 --> 55:29.000 align:start ONE DAY AFTER TAKING THE TEST, 55:29.000 --> 55:31.000 align:start SHE GOT LABELED ADVANCED-E GOT 55:31.000 --> 55:32.000 align:start LABELED A FOOL. 55:32.000 --> 55:32.000 align:start DROPPED OUT OF SCHOOL. 55:32.000 --> 55:35.000 align:start DID WHAT HE THOUGHT HE HAD TO. 55:35.000 --> 55:36.000 align:start STAR MATHEMATICIAN, DIFFERENT 55:36.000 --> 55:37.000 align:start GREENS AND WHITES WOULD HELP 55:37.000 --> 55:39.000 align:start WITH HIS ADDITION. 55:39.000 --> 55:40.000 align:start FINANCIAL ADVISOR FOR WOMEN, 55:40.000 --> 55:41.000 align:start PIMPING AND FLIPPING. 55:41.000 --> 55:42.000 align:start NOW MY MAN FIGHTS HIS TEARS 55:42.000 --> 55:44.000 align:start INSIDE OF A PRISON RIGHT NEXT 55:44.000 --> 55:45.000 align:start TO POP'S PAUSE. 55:45.000 --> 55:47.000 align:start FORGET IT. 55:47.000 --> 55:49.000 align:start JUST PLAY TRACK, BLACK BOY, OR 55:49.000 --> 55:51.000 align:start FOOTBALL OR BASKETBALL OR JUST 55:51.000 --> 55:54.000 align:start BALL, BACK BOY, GET MONEY, GET 55:54.000 --> 55:54.000 align:start GIRLS, GO TO JAIL. 55:54.000 --> 55:56.000 align:start YOU DO THE SAME. 55:56.000 --> 55:57.000 align:start TRY ALL YOUR LIFE TO FIND THE 55:57.000 --> 55:59.000 align:start PLACE THAT YOU FIT INTO. 55:59.000 --> 56:00.000 align:start YOU SEE, I REPRESENT BROKEN 56:00.000 --> 56:02.000 align:start HISTORIES, MISSING TEXTS FROM 56:02.000 --> 56:03.000 align:start TEXTBOOKS. 56:03.000 --> 56:04.000 align:start KINESTHETIC LEARNERS THAT 56:04.000 --> 56:07.000 align:start DON'T TEST GOOD, PRODUCTS OF 56:07.000 --> 56:08.000 align:start SOCIETY. 56:08.000 --> 56:08.000 align:start LANGUAGE THAT I PLAY WITH 56:08.000 --> 56:10.000 align:start BECAUSE MINE WAS TAKEN IN A 56:10.000 --> 56:11.000 align:start COUNTRY THAT SHUNS ME, I HAVE 56:11.000 --> 56:12.000 align:start SO MUCH STAKE IN IT. 56:12.000 --> 56:13.000 align:start A PEOPLE WHO ARE DIRECT RESULT 56:13.000 --> 56:14.000 align:start OF AN ACTION TAKEN AND A 56:14.000 --> 56:15.000 align:start PEOPLE WHO FEAR THOSE PEOPLE 56:15.000 --> 56:17.000 align:start SO THEY'VE CREATED LAWS TO 56:17.000 --> 56:18.000 align:start EVADE AND CONTAIN THEM INSIDE 56:18.000 --> 56:19.000 align:start OF THE LINES. 56:19.000 --> 56:20.000 align:start PATHS. 56:20.000 --> 56:22.000 align:start ROADS. 56:22.000 --> 56:22.000 align:start CIRCLES. 56:22.000 --> 56:23.000 align:start AND TRACKS. 56:23.000 --> 56:25.000 align:start MY NAME IS TISH JONES. 56:25.000 --> 56:26.000 align:start AND I'VE BEEN CALLED HERE TO 56:26.000 --> 56:28.000 align:start REPRESENT THE MISSING PIECE. 56:28.000 --> 56:29.000 align:start >> ALL RIGHT. 56:29.000 --> 56:35.000 align:start Cheers and applause 56:35.000 --> 56:35.000 align:start >> ADIA: THAT'S IT FOR TV 56:35.000 --> 56:36.000 align:start TAKEOVER. 56:36.000 --> 56:36.000 align:start THIS WAS THE FINAL EPISODE OF 56:36.000 --> 56:37.000 align:start OUR SERIES! 56:37.000 --> 56:42.000 align:start A BIG SHOUT-OUT TO ST. PAUL 56:42.000 --> 56:42.000 align:start ALMANAC. 56:42.000 --> 56:48.000 align:start Cheers and applause 56:48.000 --> 56:50.000 align:start >> FOR THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT 56:50.000 --> 56:52.000 align:start OF THE ARTS, ARTS WORKS, THE 56:52.000 --> 56:55.000 align:start KNIGHT FOUNDATION AND THE 56:55.000 --> 56:57.000 align:start BLYTHEE BLANDIN FOUNDATION 56:57.000 --> 56:58.000 align:start PROUDLY SUPPORTING THE ARTS OF 56:58.000 --> 57:58.000 align:start MINNESOTA.