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Sandralee Dr. Made From Scratch: A Memoir is a 2007 memoir by the television cooking star, Sandra Lee.

Saratoga St. George Crum (c.1828–July 22, 1914) was an African/Native American trapper and guide in the Adirondacks, who became renowned for his culinary skills after becoming a cook and restaurant owner in Saratoga Springs, New York. By the early 20th century, Crum was credited in some popular accounts as having developed potato chips. His story is told in the 2006 children’s book, George Crum and the Saratoga chip by Gaylia Taylor (born 1971).

Sargent Ave. R. Sargent "Sarge" Shriver, Jr. (1915 – 2011) was an American statesman and activist. As the husband of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, he was part of the Kennedy family, serving in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Shriver was the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, founded the Job Corps and  Head Start. The Peace Corps was first initiated by a citizen vote at a Democratic caucus in Saint Paul in the early 1960s. The Insider's Guide to the Peace Corps: What to Know Before You Go published in 2009 will tell you all you need to know. Written by  former Peace Corps volunteer Dillon Banerjee.

Saunders Ave. Danny Saunders is a character in Chaim Potok's (1929 – 2002) novels The Chosen and The Promise.

Scenic Pl. Scenic Driving Minnesota  by Phil Davies is a 1997 travel book.

Scheffer Ave. All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity)  is the 2011 history of the war crimes tribunal in the former Yugoslavia by David Scheffer who spearheaded the mission to create the tribunal.

Scheuneman Ave.    Theory of Nothing: Why Life is Unexplainable is a 2008 book by Eric Scheuneman.

Schletti St.      The street was platted in 1916 by a Schletty family member who changed the -y to an -I. Since the family was German and the Great War was raging perhaps the thought was to sound Italian. An actual Schletty lives in Saint Paul. Richard Schletty is a performing songwriter from St. Paul's West Side where he and his wife Pat have been raising seven kids.

Scudder St.    Lawrence Block (born 1938) is an American crime writer best known for the  series about the recovering alcoholic private investigator, Matthew Scudder.  Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994.

Seal St.     Syd Hoff (1912 – 2004) was a cartoonist and children's book author. He is the author of Sammy the Seal (published 1987).

Searle St. Minnesotans Writing About the Places They Love is a collection of memories by various writers. Compiled by  Voices for the Land, 1000 Friends of Minnesota in 2000 and published by Milkweed Editions. It contains a story by Newell Searle about Alton Township in southern Minnesota.

Second St.     The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936). First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories. In 1907, Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date.

Selby Ave.     Saint Paul's Inner City Youth League is housed at the corner of Selby Avenue and Victoria Street. The co-founder was Robert "Bobby" Hickman (1936-2015). His ancestors founded Pilgrim Baptist Church, Saint Paul's oldest black church. Hickman wrote an article in 2012 about the origins of the Inner City Youth League for the Saint Paul Almanac. His mother was the sister of photographer Gordon Parks. The Gordon Parks High School is located on University Avenue. Selby Beeler is the author of the children’s book Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions Around the World, published in 1998.

Selma Ln. Selma is a 2014 American historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Paul Webb and Ava DuVernay. It is based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by James Bevel, Hosea Williams, and Martin Luther King, Jr. of SCLC and John Lewis of SNCC.

Seminary Ave. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) was  a teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist. She was the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, published in 1852. Hartford Female Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut, was established in 1823 by Harriet's sister, Catharine Beecher.

Seminole Ave. My name is Sally Little Song by Brenda Woods is a 2006 children’s story about twelve-year-old Sally and her family who run away from their Georgia plantation to look for both freedom from slavery and a home in Florida with the Seminole Indians.

Seventh Pl. Peter Bailey (born 1938) is an American journalist, author, and lecturer. He was an associate of Malcolm X's and a member of the Organization of Afro-American Unity. In 1998, he wrote Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X with Malcolm X's nephew, Rodnell Collins.

Shelby Pl.    Shelby Foote, Jr. (1916 –2005) was an American historian and novelist who wrote The Civil War: A Narrative, a massive, three-volume history of the war.

Sheldon St.    Sheldon “Shel” Silverstein (1930–1999) was a very popular  American poet, singer-songwriter, cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children's books. He was the author of Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974), The Giving Tree (1969) and many other books. For many readers coming of age in the 60s, our first Silverstein experience was either through Playboy magazine or from listening to Johnny Cash singing A Boy Named Sue.

Shepard Rd.     E. H. Shepard (1879 – 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He was known especially for his illustrations of characters in The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1859 –1932) and Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne (1882–1956) .

Sherburne Ave.    419 Sherburne Avenue is the Charles James home. James was a member of a pioneer Saint Paul African-American family. He was a local and national leader in the Boot and Shoe Workers Union in the early 20th century. He served three terms as the president of Saint Paul’s Trades and Labor Assembly.  He was the first elected African American labor leader in the Midwest.

Sheridan Ave. Richard Sheridan (1751 –1816) was an Irish playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The street is named for him.

Sherman St. Sherman Alexie (born 1966) is a poet, writer, and filmmaker. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American with ancestry of several tribes, growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. His best known work is The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (published 1993).

Sherwood Ave. Sherwood : Original Stories From the World of Robin Hood, edited by Jane Yolen   (born 1939). She is also the author of the children’s book, Miz Berlin Walks,  published in 1997. It’s about her mother. This writer often used it as a read-aloud book in his elementary teaching. No relation but a fun read especially since the title includes his family name.

Shields Ave.     Carol Ann Shields, (1935 –2003) was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.

Shop Rd. “Shop” was a term used in high schools to refer to the Industrial Arts class. Boys took “shop” and girls took Home Economics. It was the way it was back in the day. The classes have gone away now. Too bad they didn’t stay on but with  boys and girls getting to take both classes. A fascinating look into the idea of work is seen in Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford, published 2009.

Short St. And Short the Season: Poems is a collection of highly personal poems by Maxine Kumin (1925-2014) published just before the poet’s death. Kumin was good friends with the poet, Anne Sexton. They each had a telephone in their writing room that they used only for calling each other. When they were writing, they would leave the phone off the hook and whistle when they had finished a good line so one could read it to the other.  Here is her poem: Together                                                The water closing over us and the going down is all. Gills are given. We convert in a town of broken hulls and green doubloons. O you dead pirates hear us! There is no salvage. All you know is the color of warm caramel. All is salt. See how our eyes have migrated to the uphill side? Now we are new round mouths and no spines letting the water cover. It happens over and over, me in your body and you in mine.

Sibley St. The street is named for Henry Sibley (1811 –1891) who was the first Governor (1858-1860) of the state of Minnesota. Later, he served as a colonel in the U.S. Army and was involved in the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 which resulted in the hanging of 38 Dakota men. The Past Is Alive Within Us: The U.S.- Dakota Conflict is a 2013 video documentary examining Minnesota's involvement in the Dakota War as the Civil War was simultaneously raging. Abraham Lincoln was president at the time if the hangings. He signed the order to allow the hangings in the same week as when he signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Just a thought when trying to vote for the greatest president.

Sidney St. Don't Call Me Sidney is a children’s book by Jane Sutton, published in 2010.

Sigurd St. Sigurd F. Olson (1899 – 1982) was an American author, environmentalist, and advocate for the protection of wilderness. For more than thirty years, he served as a wilderness guide in the lakes and forests of the Quetico-Superior country of northern Minnesota and northwestern Ontario. He was known honorifically as the Bourgeois — a term the voyageurs of old used of their trusted leaders. The book, Spirit of the North: The Quotable Sigurd F. Olson, is edited by David Backes (published 2004). The street is not named for Olson although it was named for Sigurd Bertleson (1899-1989), a Saint Paul postmaster from 1955-1972. This writer wishes the postal service only good thoughts as they struggle to stay afloat under all the junk mail they need to deliver since humans stopped mailing real letters.

Simcoe St. The street is named for areas around Ontario, Canada, which were, in turn, named for John Simcoe (1752 – 1806), a British army officer and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791 to 1796. He also led attacks on American rebels in our Revolutionary War and killed ten American rebels in their sleep. He also tried to capture George Washington during the winter of 1779. Is this the kind of person we want to have associated with our fair streets of Saint Paul?

Simon Ave. Adele & Simon is a lovely 2006 children’s picture book by Barbara McClintock. It includes a 1907 Baedeker map of Paris in the endpapers.

Simpson St. Big Brilliant Book of Bart Simpson by Matt Groening (born 1954) is a book about the cartoon character, Bart  Simpson, and whose inclusion in this book is simply another way for this writer to advertise the brilliancy of his name. It should not be lost upon the reader that the name Bart in the cartoon was chosen because it  is an anagram of brat. What a coincidence!

Sims Ave. The story of Charlotte's Web : E.B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic by  Michael Sims (born 1958) is a look into the life of E.B. White.

Sinnen St. Hella von Sinnen is the stage name for the German comic, Hella Kemper. Her stage name is a pun on the German "von" preposition denoting noble descent; von Sinnen is a German expression for mad or insane. This author is shocked and pleased to learn that there are comics in Germany given that he has always believed the stereotype that Germans aren't funny. What a limited life he leads!

Sixth St. Sixth Grade Secrets by Louis Sachar (born 1954) is a pre-teen novel by the author of Holes. Don't miss the movie of Holes. Great music.

Skyway Dr. The Skyway Cities by  Sam H. Kaufman (published 1985) is a look into the skyway system of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

Sloan St. Larry Sloan (1922–2012) was an American publisher of Mad Libs and co-founder of the Los Angeles publishing company, Price Stern Sloan, which opened in the early 1960s. Mad Libs is a very popular word game where players add words based on their form without knowing the context of the story. Very funny and a good way to teach categories of words.

Smith Ave. Ronald King-Smith (1922 – 2011), was a prolific English writer of children's books, primarily using the pen name Dick King-Smith. He is best known for The Sheep-Pig (1983), or Babe the Gallant Pig in the United States. The movie, Babe, is based on this book. Dorothy "Dodie" Smith (1896 –1990) was an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for her novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians.

Snelling Ave. William Joseph Snelling (1804 –1848) was an American adventurer, writer, poet, and journalist. His short stories about American Indian life were the first to attempt to accurately portray the Plains Indians and among the first attempts at realism by an American writer. His father was Josiah Snelling  (1782–1828) who was the first commander of Fort Snelling and is the namesake of the avenue.

Snowshoe Ln. The Snowshoeing Adventure of Milton Daub, Blizzard Trekker is a 2010 children's book by Margaret Wetterer. It retells a true story of an 1888 rescue by a boy in Bronx, New York.

Spencer   Rd.   Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances; née Spencer; 1961 – 1997), was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. There are more than a few books about her life and maybe even more about her death.

Spring St. Silent Spring is an environmental science book written by Rachel Carson (1907–1964)  and published in 1962. The book documented the detrimental effects on the environment—particularly on birds—of the indiscriminate use of pesticides. The publication of the book has often been described as being the beginning of the modern environmental movement. The title was inspired by a line in the poem by the English poet, John Keats (1795-1821), La Belle Dame sans Merci. The line is “The sedge has withered from the lake,/ And no birds sing.” Here is the first stanza: O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing.

Springfield St. Springfield is the fictional home of Bart Simpson and provides another opportunity for this writer to insert his name. Speaking of the name, there was a real live stagecoach robber in the late 1800’s who went by the name of Black Bart. He had been trying to earn an honest living by panning for gold. The Wells Fargo stagecoach company wanted his claim so they could get access to the water. When he wouldn’t sell they dammed up the river. Black Bart got a little upset and started robbing stagecoaches but only Wells Fargo coaches and always very politely. He would even leave a poem. Here’s the one he left after his fifth robbery: "Here I lay me down to sleep To wait the coming morrow, Perhaps success, perhaps defeat And everlasting sorrow. Yet come what will, I'll try it once, My conditions can't be worse, And if there's money in that box, 'Tis money in my purse." signed, Black Bart, the P o 8"

Spruce St. Tabitha Jane King (née Spruce; born 1949) is an American author. She is married to writer Stephen King (born 1947). The American poet, Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) writes in his poem, The Snow Man: One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long time To behold the junipers shagged with ice, The spruces rough in the distant glitter Of the January sun; and not to think Of any misery in the sound of the wind, In the sound of a few leaves, Which is the sound of the land Full of the same wind That is blowing in the same bare place For the listener, who listens in the snow, And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

Spruce Tree Ave. The Great Spruce (2016) is a children's picture book by John Duvall (Author and  Rebecca Gibbon (Illustrator). the point of a spruce tree, haiku and senryu (2019) is children's poetry book by Dan Lukiv .

St. Albans St. The theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking (b. 1942) was educated at St Albans School in southern Hertfordshire, England. His book, The Theory of Everything, was published in 2007. The 2014 movie of the same name was not based on Stephen Hawking’s book but on his ex-wife’s memoir, Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking.

St. Anthony Ave. Larry gets lost in the Twin Cities: Minneapolis-St. Paul (published 2012) by Michael Mullin is a children’s story in which a dog gets lost in the Twin Cities and visits many of the cities’ landmarks including St. Anthony Falls.

St. Clair Ave. A Knack for Knowing Things: Stories From St. Paul Neighborhoods and Beyond by Don Boxmeyer (born 1941) and published in 2003 is a wealth of information about the streets of Saint Paul including St. Clair Ave. in which he relates the story of the Guardian of Lower St. Clair. This author, having been an employee of Saint Paul Public Schools for ten years has had many wonderful encounters with the Guardian.

St. Dennis Ct. Rick St. dennis is an artist/illustrator who has published many coloring books for adults and children. He spells "dennis" with a lower-case d.

St. Joseph’s Ln. St. Joseph’s Home for Children is in Minneapolis. Wonderful work they do. Minnesota poet, Joyce Sutpen, was born and raised in St. Joseph, MN. She is the second Minnesota Poet Laureate. Here is one of her poems: Evening Angelus                                                                                               I have forgotten the words, and therefore I shall not conceive of a mysterious salvation, I shall not become a tall lily and bloom into blue and white. Then what oracular event shall appear on my doorstep? What announcement shall crowd me to a corner, protesting an unworthiness, which doubtless shall be believed? But these are only bells we hear, pulled down by the arms of the drunken janitor, two fingers missing on his left hand. And we have climbed into that tower, its spiraling wooden staircase creaking beneath our feet. We have seen for ourselves that it is only iron that rings, iron swinging on an iron bar, the rough rope threading down to the cold ground, no death or holiness in those hollow shells.

St. Paul Ave. The Saint Paul Public Library system is a treasured resource in the city. Their home web page has this information regarding its history: “The Saint Paul Public Library traces its earliest beginnings to 1856 when the newly formed Young Men's Christian Association opened a reading room.” And the last line: “Many things have changed but the basic service: that of providing information and ideas to realize dreams and spark the imagination, remains the same.” This writer appreciates all the service that the library has provided him through the years. He does find the website a little harder to use than the Ramsey County library website. Just a thought that maybe the search feature could be a little friendlier.

St. Peter St. St. Peter's Basilica is a church located within the Vatican City. There is a basilica in Minneapolis, The Basilica of Saint Mary. The Cathedral of St. Paul is not a basilica but a church located in Saint Paul which is mentioned here as an opportunity for the author to express his admiration for the fact that the Cathedral of St. Paul rises a little higher than the nearby State Capitol Building. The National Cathedral in Washington. D.C. was also intentionally constructed to rise a little higher than the Washington Monument. The height of both cathedrals is supposed to indicate that the laws of humanity are always less than the laws of faith. If you stand on Phalen Avenue towards the western end there is a good view of the height difference between the cathedral and the capitol building. This author always likes driving between the two structures just to feel the faith. Even though he doesn’t buy into the cathedral faith. The cathedral that most movie-watching children are familiar with is probably the Cathedral of Notre Dame which figures prominently in the Disney movie, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. That movie is based on the Victor Hugo (1802–1885) book of the same name. Hugo considered that book to be one part of a trilogy about the human condition. The other two are Les Miserable and Toilers of the Sea. In his preface to the first edition of Les Miserable he says: “ So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilization, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age—the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of women by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night—are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.” Each book speaks to one of the “three problems of the age.” Read them and decide which speaks to which. The books will be well worth your time.

Standish St. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include the 1858 narrative poem, The Courtship of Miles Standish. The street is named for the poem. Longfellow's poem which still gets read at public gatherings is his Paul Revere's Ride. Revere, in his letter to Belknap, next described leaving Charlestown. “I set off upon a very good Horse; it was then about 11 o’Clock, and very pleasant. After I had passed Charlestown Neck, and got nearly opposite where Mark was hung in chains.” Mark, “hung in chains,” refers to the rotting remains of a slave from Charlestown who was executed in 1750, after he and a slave woman named Phyllis were convicted of poisoning their master, a Charlestown merchant, with arsenic. Phyllis was burned at the stake, in Cambridge, not far from Longfellow’s house, in a place called Gallows Hill; Mark was executed in Charlestown, and his body was left, hanged in chains, as a warning to Boston’s slaves of the danger of rebellion. By the time Revere made his ride in 1775, Mark’s bones had been hanging at Charlestown Neck for a quarter century, bearing witness. Maybe it was Revere’s remark about that landmark, Mark’s bones, that sparked in Longfellow this thought, but here the poem takes a turn. In Boston, the man who mounts the belfry of the Old North Church to light the lanterns looks out at Copps Hill, the burying ground where Longfellow had gone with George Sumner and where the Mathers lay entombed, but which was also, by the 1850s, far better known as the place where Boston’s blacks were buried: Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead, In their night-encampment on the hill, Wrapped in silence so deep and still That he could hear, like a sentinel’s tread, The watchful night-wind, as it went Creeping along from tent to tent, And seeming to whisper, “All is well!”

Stanford Ave. Stanford University in California has an impressive list of luminaries in the arts and sciences. One particular field is “code poetry.” Code Poetry was  developed  as a means of investigating the poetic potentials of computer-programming languages. Computer poets type in programming code and then have the computer speak the text out loud. Which means that if artificial intelligence isn’t a problem for you, then artificially intelligent poetry won’t be too much of a stretch. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-12-stanford-code-poetry-slam-reveals.html#jCp This could be Ada Lovelace’s mother’s revenge on poetry. It's a long story which this author has inserted elsewhere in these writings.

Starkey St. Richard Starkey is the birth name for Ringo Starr (born 1940) who was the drummer for the Beatles.  Many younger readers will recognize him as one of the conductors on the Thomas the Tank television show.

State St. Minnesota State Fair: an Illustrated History is a book by Kathryn Strand Koutsky and Linda Koutsky in collaboration with Minnesota State Fair. It was published in  2007 by Coffee House Press which is a Minneapolis-based, non-profit publishing house founded by Allan Kornblum (1949-2014). Here is William Carlos Williams’s “The Descent.” The website for Coffee House Press states that this was a poem which meant a great deal to Kornblum and was read to him by his wife the night before he died: The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned. Memory is a kind of accomplishment, a sort of renewal even an initiation, since the spaces it opens are new places inhabited by hordes heretofore unrealized, of new kinds— since their movements are toward new objectives (even though formerly they were abandoned). No defeat is made up entirely of defeat—since the world it opens is always a place formerly unsuspected. A world lost, a world unsuspected, beckons to new places and no whiteness (lost) is so white as the memory of whiteness . With evening, love wakens though its shadows which are alive by reason of the sun shining— grow sleepy now and drop away from desire . Love without shadows stirs now beginning to awaken as night advances. The descent made up of despairs and without accomplishment realizes a new awakening: which is a reversal of despair. For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation— a descent follows, endless and indestructible .

Stella St. Stella Kowalski is one of the main characters in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire. She is the younger sister of central character Blanche DuBois and wife of Stanley Kowalski. Saint Paul residents will notice the name, Kowalski, as being the same as our locally-owned grocery chain. Their store on Grand Avenue is a welcome respite for walkers looking for a treat. Also, good groceries. No relation to Stanley that can be found on their website. Perhaps shoppers could stand outside the store and yell, STELLA!

Stellar St. Fancy Nancy: Stellar Stargazer! is a 2011 children's book by Jane O'Connor.

Stevens St. Tops and Bottoms is a folktale adapted and illustrated by Janet Stevens and published in 1995. It won the Caldecott Honor for that year.

Stewart Ave.   Lots of Stewarts. Take your pick: Martha, Jimmy, Rod, Jon.   Rabbit Ears is a 2006 children's book by Amber Stewart.

Stickney St. The street is named for Alpheus Beede "A.B." Stickney (1840 – 1916) who was the first president of Chicago Great Western Railway, serving in that position from 1884 to 1909. The Man Whose Dream Came True: A Biography of A.B. Stickney  by John L. Relf      was published in 1991.

Stillwater Ave. The town of Stillwater, Minnesota, has several wonderful bookstores, both new and used. This author strongly encourages the reader to spend some time searching for these brick-and-mortar dealers of the carbon word.

Stinchfield St.   Rick  and Lynne Stinchfield are authors of several wonderful hiking and travel books.

Stinson St.    The Man With the Violin is a children’s book by Kathy Stinson, published in 2013.  The story concerns the experiment set up by Washington Post writer Gene Weingarten and violinist, Joshua Bell, in 2007, to determine if high art could transcend its setting.   Joshua Bell, a world-famous violinist, played incognito in the Washington, D.C. subway for 45 minutes. You can see the experiment on YouTube and judge for yourself.

Stonebridge Blvd. You can read the history of the Stonebridge Estate at www.rchs.com/Stonebridge. Author, Jay Pfaender, provides a rich and detailed story. (thanks to Donald Empson’s, The Street Where You Live, for this information)

Stroh Dr.   Named for the long-time brewery which is now owned by the Pabst brewing company. With the unfortunate trend lately for children to be seen as little adults, this author is glad that he can find no children’s books dealing with beer. Not that he minds adult books dealing with beer.

Stryker Ave.   Donald Empson says in his book, The Street Where You Live, that John Stryker, for whom the street is named, “was a gentleman, that is to say, he did not have to work for a living.” Some would say that this author has tried to do the same and that now that he is retired some would say he still doesn't do any work.

Sturgis St.   This street was named long before Sturgis, South Dakota, became the site of an annual  motorcycle  rally. Perhaps Saint Paul could have its own rally.

Suburban Ave. Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn is a 2006 natural history exploration for children written by Hannah Holmes.

Sue Pl. Named for Sue Fry, who with her husband, James, platted this street in 1886. This author had always been curious about the origin of the street name. Thanks to Donald Empson the mystery is solved as are the mysteries about most of the other street names in Saint Paul.     Wikipedia lists a James Fry from the same era and locale as the one in Empson’s book. Fry had written numerous books on military history after his retirement from the Army in 1881. Now that this author is retired, he intends to become equally as famous a writer. If he has time.

Sumac St.      Albert Camus (1913–1960) was a French Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher. His inclusion here is a chance for the author to display his cleverness by noticing what sumac is when spelled backwards.

Summit Ave.     F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in his parents’ house  at 599 Summit Avenue while writing This Side of Paradise.

Sumner St.     Grey Griffins is a children's novel series written by American authors Derek Benz and J. S. Lewis in collaboration. The Grey Griffins series follows the story of four sixth graders who live in the fictional city of Avalon, Minnesota. One of the main characters is Grayson Maximilian Sumner III: Master and Leader of the Secret Order of the Grey Griffins.

Sunny Slope Ln.       Not sunny but The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 10)  by  Lemony Snicket is a good read.

Superior St.    Named for Lake Superior, this entry provides an opportunity for this author to mention, with all humility, his awesome solo bicycle ride around Lake Superior in the summer of his 58th year. Due to his somewhat extreme melodramatic nature, the author carried with him a copy of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Due to the challenge of the hills in Canada, the author lightened his load somewhere around Wawa.

Supornick Ln.    Several Supornicks of Saint Paul have had their funerals at Temple of Aaron in St. Paul. No books can be found using the name Supornick. This author will then use this opportunity to reveal the mystery behind the placement of the sanctuary of Temple of Aaron which is affiliated with the Conservative movement of Judasim. It is a Jewish synagogue just in case you were unsure. And you could be justified in being confused. All synagogues in the western hemisphere have their sanctuaries set up so the worshiper is facing east or towards Jerusalem. Unless the rabbi who was behind the building of the synagogue was a Reconstructionist rabbi and talked the synagogue folks into offsetting the sanctuary so it faces southeast. As a joke, perhaps, or more as a sly way to insert an even more ultra liberal bias than even what the current synagogue turned out to be. Judaism as a Civilization: Toward a Reconstruction of American Jewish Life, reissued, 2010 by Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan explains the issues a little more.

Surrey Ave.    Surrey is a British county in the South East of England. The county’s Wikipedia page lists many famous writers as having lived or worked in Surrey. John Donne (1572–1631), Daniel Defoe (1659/61-1731), Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892), Charles Dickens (1812–1870), Robert Browning (1812–1889), George Eliot (1819–1880),Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), J. M. Barrie (1860–1937), H. G. Wells (1866–1946), Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), and Douglas Adams (1952-2001), to name a few.

Susan Ave.       Named for the daughter of Leonard Bisanz who developed the area, the name is also that of Susan Brownell Anthony  (1820–1906) who was an American social reformer and feminist and who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. The book, Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in her own words was published in 1995 by Lynn Sherr.

Sycamore St. The Ballad of William Sycamore was published by Stephen Vincent Benét  (1898–1943) in 1922. Here are the first three stanzas: My father, he was a mountaineer, His fist was a knotty hammer; He was quick on his feet as a running deer, And he spoke with a Yankee stammer. My mother, she was merry and brave, And so she came to her labor, With a tall green fir for her doctor grave And a stream for her comforting neighbor. And some are wrapped in the linen fine, And some like a godling's scion; But I was cradled on twigs of pine In the skin of a mountain lion.

Sylvan St. The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven high fantasy novels by author C. S. Lewis  (1898–1963). Sylvans are tree spirits and are part of the Narnian creatures which are any of the non-human inhabitants of Narnia

Syndicate St. The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the producer of a number of mystery series for children, including Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, the various Tom Swift series, the Bobbsey Twins, the Rover Boys, and others. This means that for those of us boys who grew up thinking that Franklin W. Dixon was a real person, then think again.