In the Lowell Cole story I wrote briefly about my one year stint vacuuming carpets at the IDS Center in Minneapolis after getting my GED and while in my first year of "college." As I was reflecting on this I realized that adding some additional detail about my
Having given up my welding career and secured my GED (passed on the first try without studying!), I then worked for a year vacuuming office carpets at the brand new 52 story IDS Tower in downtown Minneapolis from 5:30 to 1:30 in the morning to save money to
Apparently, St. Croix forestry camp and the hell I endured were not a sufficient deterrent. Not long after gaining my freedom, I found myself in the middle of the night intoxicated and on the roof of Len's grocery store smashing the small skylight with my foot and then
Over the next four years I was arrested 23 more times and sent up to reform school four more times. My last reform school stop was at St Croix Forestry Camp located about 20 miles east of a town called Sandstone deep in the woods of northern Minnesota. It was