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American Radio Company of the Air

October 31, 1992      World Theater, St Paul, MN

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Participants

Butch Thompson TrioEnsemble Singers of the Plymouth Music Series Janis Hardy Garrison Keillor. Kate MacKenzie


Songs, tunes, and poems

Tell Laura I love here ( Garrison Keillor , Kate MacKenzie )
I can't seem to say good-bye ( Garrison Keillor , Kate MacKenzie )
Today I started loving you again ( Garrison Keillor , Kate MacKenzie )
Nobody's sweetheart now (Butch Thompson Trio  )
Darktown strutters ball (Butch Thompson Trio  )
In the dark (Butch Thompson Trio  )
In praise of Apollo ( Janis Hardy , Ensemble Singers of the Plymouth Music Series  )
Diary of Virginia Wolff ( Janis Hardy , Ensemble Singers of the Plymouth Music Series  )
Happy birthday Domenic Argento ( Janis Hardy , Ensemble Singers of the Plymouth Music Series  )
Gloria ( Janis Hardy , Ensemble Singers of the Plymouth Music Series  )
Happy trails to you ( Janis Hardy , Ensemble Singers of the Plymouth Music Series  )


Sketches, Sponsors, People, Places

Cafe Boeuf
Fisher's Coffee
Guy's Shoes


'The News from Lake Wobegon'

Why leave corn in the field to dry? So it won't freeze in the silo. Primary teacher, Kevin, stays out late, falls asleep in recess. Kids had a wonderful walk in the woods. Death. What if you only had six weeks to live? Buy Pall Malls, three bottles of $200 wine. Your last movie, last novel, last champagne, last oysters, last ??. Then fade away like a bird released from a cage Don't try to cut a deal with God. Ghost stories. The three-legged horse ghost gallops down the road. 1850 US Army wagon that got caught in a blizzard. A wagon goes through the ice of LW and four men drown, who can still be heard swearing at the Lieutenant. A little Norwegian girl dies of diphtheria. Dig up the coffin later. Scratches in the lid. Child's voice is heard the night calling Elizabet and Ollie. Farmer's wife committed suicide in 1936. The house was left untouched afterward in the middle of the corn field. GK and two friends spend the night in the house. They hear creaks, footsteps and a voice and they run to the car. Laughter follows.


Other mentions/discussions during the show

Halloween, conversation with the vampire who lives below the stage. Radio gave us car phones. Checking outside for trick or treaters. LRT: If Paul Guiguin had gone to Minnesota, invented the shopping mall. Domenic Argento. Halloween is an American holiday. Everything has tamper-proof plastic seals. Sitting in a silent house with a mad ax murderer in the cellar. What if Dale Evans had married someone else.


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