Brescian String Quartet, Philip Brunelle, Bob DeHaven, Ernie Garven, Bill Hinckley, Garrison Keillor, Judy Larson, Vern Sutton.
Autumn Leaves ( Ernie Garven ) Stars and Stripes Forever ( Vern Sutton ) A Man Who Has Plenty of Good Peanuts ( Vern Sutton ) When I grow too old to dream ( Bill Hinckley , Judy Larson ) Old Dog Blue ( Bill Hinckley , Judy Larson ) From The Land of Sky Blue Waters ( Ernie Garven ) Stanley and Albert ( Ernie Garven ) Have You Tried Wheaties ( Ernie Garven ) River Banking ( Philip Brunelle , Vern Sutton ) You Just You ( Philip Brunelle , Vern Sutton ) Alice Shevlin Hall ( Philip Brunelle , Vern Sutton ) Minnesota hail to thee ( Vern Sutton , Philip Brunelle ) Manifesto, The Mad Farmer Liberation Front ( Garrison Keillor ) Autoharp Song ( Garrison Keillor ) Happy trails to you ( Bill Hinckley , Judy Larson , Vern Sutton )
Art's Quiet Harbor Jack's Auto Repair (The 'mom' board) Jack's Autoharp Powdermilk Biscuits Wilma Haskins Dowd Award
There were more old people 10 years ago. 'Manifesto, The Mad Farmer Liberation Front' is a Wendell Berry poem.
Library of Congress Star Tribune May 19 1974 Minneapolis Star Jul 2 1974
1974.07.02 Star Tribune: "Garrison will broadcast PHC live starting this week" / From the Library of Congress website: “Well, it’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, my hometown, out on the edge of the prairie.” On July 6, 1974, before a crowd of maybe a dozen people (certainly fewer than 20), a live radio variety program went on the air from the campus of Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. It was called “A Prairie Home Companion,” a name that at once evoked a sense of place and a time now past — recalling the “Little House on the Prairie” books, the once-popular magazine “The Ladies Home Companion,” or “The Prairie Farmer,” the oldest agricultural publication in America (founded 1841). The “Prairie Farmer” later bought WLS radio in Chicago from Sears, Roebuck & Co. and gave its name to the powerful clear-channel station, which blanketed the middle third of the country from 1928 until its sale in 1959. The creator and host of the program, Garrison Keillor, later confided that he had no nostalgic intent, but took the name from “The Prairie Home Cemetery” in Moorhead, MN. His explanation is both self-effacing and humorous, much like the program he went on to host, with some sabbaticals and detours, for the next 42 years.
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