Ivy Austin, Iris DeMent, Garrison Keillor, Dean Magraw, Peter Ostroushko,
Move it on over ( Garrison Keillor ) King of Kansas City ( Garrison Keillor ) My guy Bill ( Ivy Austin ) If Jack were only here ( Garrison Keillor , Ivy Austin ) Your wandering boy ( Garrison Keillor , Ivy Austin ) Sweet little nest ( Garrison Keillor , Ivy Austin ) The whalebone feathers ( Peter Ostroushko , Dean Magraw ) The prairie sunrise ( Peter Ostroushko , Dean Magraw ) Let the mystery be ( Iris DeMent ) Good-bye to our town ( Iris DeMent ) Hills that I call home ( Iris DeMent ) Fifty miles of elbow room ( Iris DeMent )
Cafe Boeuf Chatterbox Cafe Fisher's Coffee Guy's Shoes Sidetrack Tap True Taste Toast
Voting on election day in L W. Better-than-sex cake at the Chatterbox Cafe. Sign says, "Bloom where you are planted." Innocent people really enjoy dirty jokes. Art's dog, Pal, does his tricks with GK's meat loaf. People in LW are pessimists and skeptics. GK is a romantic. A beautiful girl has a hard time growing up in LW. People believe in, 'Not that bad.' People buy everything cheap except farm machinery or breeding cattle. Election via the Electoral College. Waiting for the election results in the Sidetrack Tap, where the Democrats hang out. Wally, the Republican bartender, waits for his chance, then tells his joke about the Democrat husband telling his wife how wonderful sex was going to be.
Election results. Clinton is the first president to play the saxophone. Minnesota Bean Festival. Free beans to people in the second balcony. Invention of the saxophone by Adolph Saxe. Roger Miller memorial. GK played the piano so well that his mother told him he was three years older than his true age. GK has a seizure but Lassie the dog won't get help until he is paid. LRT: Ludwig Beethoven in North Dakota.
Archival contributors: Frank Berto