Cranberry Pork Roast

I was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin Where I was educated in the public and parochial schools. My first job was with Kresge's five and dime store working behind the lunch counter.I did not realize it then, but I was infected with the cooking bug. There was too much going on in the world and I wanted to be part of it. Threat of World War 2 was in the air and It was not very long and I was working for American Motors that had converted to Kenosha's first defense plant.So I worked as a "Rosie the Riveter" for the duration of the war. In my spare time I joined the Red Cross and became a volunteer Nurses Aide. Also volunteered as hostess at the USO. While working the refreshment counter one Saturday night, I turned around to see the most handsome sailor, my heart skipped several beats and turned to my co-worker and said, "That is the man I am going to marry". And I did, but never realized it would be seven years later. He and his buddy were outside the USo when we were through working and they looked lost and asked where they could catch a bus. All busses were headed for the barns so we walked them to the train station that would take them back to Great Lakes Naval Station. As we reached it, we had to hurry because the train was pulling in. I thought that would be the last I would see of him. Several weeks went by and I received a letter from him asking me if I would write to him. He told me he obtained my address by going to the library at the base and checked the phone book.We started our 5 year correspondence, and I follwed him through his tour of duty on a supply ship. I saw Oran, France, Italy, through his eyes. There is more to my dreams etc, but I had better get back to business and cooking. I still worked for American Motors and did my nurses aide work, but started watching mom and dad cooking. They both took turns. Mom worked in one the finer restaurants and dad worked in a factory but would always find time to tell me what to do and how. I learned how to cook or thought I did, by bothering them to the point they turned it all over to me. I loved it! But after the war ended, my pen pal sailor went home to Colorado. That is not what I had hoped for, but life goes on I thought. A year passed and I received a letter from Chicago and found my heart beating once again like it would never stop. He visited me in Kenosha and courted me for 2 1/2 years. Since we did not have much money we spent most of our time cooking. He hung around the chief cook when he was in the Navy and picked up his cooking expertise. FINALLY, we eloped to Chicago where he still resided. Still almost penniless, I found a job with an Oil Company and got a terrific training in planning auto routes for tourists, which led to public speaking... to entice people into traveling and using our products. The recession started and I was laid off, but found a job with another oil company and was hired away by a third Oil company, to Manage their travel department that was still under construction.That was a dream job, that enabled me (and sometimes my husband) to travel the entire United States and Canada.I remained with this company until I retired. I loved that job, but I also loved my retirement. And that is when I really began to cook up a storm. My cooking talents began with my own concoction of Spaghetti Sauce which is my favorite dish to prepare,next comes my Barbecued Baby Back Ribs.I think the ribs made me famous because when we invited friends that loved "finger foods" there were NEVER any left overs, and had to triple the recipe because sometimes were half gone before we finished serving, You can tell we and our friends were very casual.