Butch Thompson Trio, Michael Cooney, Sharon Isbin, Tom Lieberman, Peter Ostroushko, Jean Redpath. Robin and Linda Williams,
Astudious ( Sharon Isbin ) Brazilian Classical Piece for Solo Guitar ( Sharon Isbin ) Never No More (Robin and Linda Williams ) Things Ain't Right (Robin and Linda Williams ) Wood and Married and All ( Jean Redpath ) Highland Laddie ( Jean Redpath ) I'm Shy Mary Ellen I'm Shy ( Michael Cooney ) Railroad Bill ( Michael Cooney ) Robert Burns Adaptation ( Jean Redpath ) Memories of the Alhambra Castle ( Sharon Isbin )
Ajua! Hot Sauce (After 16 years in public radio, you develop too much dignity.) Bob's Bank Powdermilk Biscuits (Story of the corner where the shy people go. Disaster can happen but very few people die of embarrassment. )
The storm windows are on, and the shovel is on the snowplow though Bud forgot to put the counterbalance of sand in the back so it was a bit front-heavy. Bud also went to repair a tank in the school’s boy’s bathroom, and he forgot to turn the main water valve off. Water everywhere. His job should have been up in the air but because Bud has developed his “own way” to do things, it was best to keep him on. The Olson girl was voted Halloween Queen, riding on the big float for the last parade of the year. It’s a parade to show off everyone’s costume. Last year that float hit the corner a bit hard, and the queen slid off. The movie theater was showing “The Hand Under the Bed” and folks went to see Monica Montaine (formerly Brenda Ingqvist) in the film but in a very small role. Brenda had given the Ingqvists quite a worry, so it was good to see that she made something of herself. Several children from Lake Wobegon have made it in the big world as “sort of” celebrities. The townspeople had prepared themselves for Brenda’s visit on the occasion of the movie’s showing, but she backed out at the last moment, which was actually a relief.
Garrison shares a hilarious story about when he was a disk jockey on a college campus FM radio station, Neither he nor any of his friends lived on campus and thus never heard the broadcast. As it turns out, there was a transmission issue and he had been talking to no one for months!
1981.11.06 Charlotte Observer / 1981.10.23 Minneapolis Star / 1981.11.07 Missoulian / Audio of the News available as a digital download.
Archival contributors: Ken Kuhl