TOM COYNE: Back In Circulation — Brainerd or Bangkok?
It was the morning after Labor Day, 1962. I was a shy, nervous fourth-grader, attempting to fit in with my classmates on the first day of school. Having moved from southeast Minneapolis to suburban Golden Valley, Minn., just a year before, I was slowly building friendships but still a little gunshy. Mrs. Larson, who eventually would become one of my all-time …