I grew up a few blocks from Charles Schulz' house in St. Paul, Minnesota but I didn't know him. Now, on some of the busier street corners, there are Peanuts figures that are about 4' high. It's so cool.
I grew up in a really interesting area, less than a block from Wm. McKnight ( 3 M ), same street as Garrison Keillor & not far from where F.Scott Fitxgerald lived. It's a super cool area now & winter is so beautiful but far too severe. It really doesn't slow anyone down though. They make it fun, The Winter Carnival, all the winter sports, ice fishing & the last winter I was there, it was so cold & blustery yet I saw a guy gunning his Harley & racing onto the freeway.
Oh, and Bob Dylan grew up in Minn. & started out playing at the super cool Triangle Bar on the West Bank of the U. of Minnesota.
Good times! 4951