I was born in New York and lived up and down the Cancer coridor from New York to Philadelphia until I was about 27 when I came to Minnesota for graduate school to get my MFA at the University of Minnesota. I lived in a warehouse off 7th Street by the freeway in 1980, 81, 82, and 83. Spent a been a couple of years in Lake Elmo before moving north? 60 miles to Princeton where I could afford 25 acres, a house and a pole barn in which to build my glass shop. Saint Paul is going through quite a Renaissance currently and has a thriving Arts District which is currently being overtaken by the well-heeled driving the artist in North Minneapolis. God knows where they'll go next.