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Prairie Home Companion

May 24, 1986      

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This show is a COMPILATION of past shows
Elements were pulled from these shows:
1985-09-14
1985-09-21
1985-09-28
1985-10-05


This show features Garrison reading a carefully edited abridgment of his book Lake Wobegon Days. It also includes a few segments selected from live performances recorded during a fundraising tour for public radio stations in 1985. Participants Garrison Keillor, Peter Ostroushko, Songs, tunes, and poems One more spring in Minnesota ( Peter Ostroushko , Garrison Keillor ) The Lake Wobegon Anthem ( Garrison Keillor ) Sketches, Sponsors, People, Places The Finn Who Would Not Take A Sauna (Margaret Haskins Durber, the poet laureate of Lake Wobegon) Summary of Readings This broadcast was taped events in several cities during the fall of 1985 of readings from the book "Lake Wobegon Days". Early explorers of the Lake Wobegon area The 95 accusations nailed to the door of the Lutheran church The fire siren, Town routines, The Lundberg Family The story behind the story of Tollerude's Korean baby The salad bar at the Chatterbox Ingqvist vacation Bruno the fishing dog Ralph's lutefisk The Sons of Kuntes's giant decoys Socialism in Lake Wobegon Sermons King Vincent of Altrusia Committee hearings and funerals Fun without TV Fall in Lake Wobegon Car trip and the good child Sanctified Brethren Admiration of Catholics Going to restaurant Fundamentalist merchandise The skating rink and the warming house Truth and Fiction Cemetery & the Buried Alive Story Marlys cleans up A recent visit to Lake Wobegon memories