About this story
Drainage first, then parks, then a library people actually want to enter. Your sociology professor keeps attaching an invoice to the vision. That evening a notice goes up: library work in St Paul, applications close Friday. You sign it, with the prairie lights scattered in the dark below.
How it opens
From the hill above Blodgett, two cities rose beyond wheat fields and the Mississippi.
Wind caught your skirt while mills and distant towers competed with the open northern sky.
ClassmateCarol, English history begins in twenty minutes, even for reformers.
ClassmateYesterday you meant to act, and today you mean to redesign Minnesota.
Professor MottMiss Milford's ambitions are versatile enough to survive a timetable.
Choose
One may try several doors before choosing a room.
A town may need redesigning more urgently than a play needs me.