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February 27, 1982      World Theater, St Paul, MN

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Participants

Butch Thompson Trio Garrison Keillor Charlie Maguire. PersuasionsStoney LonesomeThird Generation


Songs, tunes, and poems

By the river St Marie (Butch Thompson Trio  )
Butter and egg man (Butch Thompson Trio  )
The old lamplighter (Butch Thompson Trio  )
The Pearls (Butch Thompson Trio  )
In the beginning (Stoney Lonesome  , Garrison Keillor )
All the good times are Past and Gone (Stoney Lonesome  , Garrison Keillor )
Don't have no home (Stoney Lonesome  , Garrison Keillor )
Dirko polka (Third Generation  )
Finnish tune (Third Generation  )
Lowenbrau (Persuasions  )
Sixteen (Persuasions  )
Spend the Night (Persuasions  )
Rainy Night (Persuasions  )
Know when to hold 'em (Persuasions  )
All Aboard (Persuasions  )
Song is my Joy (Persuasions  )
Amen (Persuasions  )
Travel by train ( Charlie Maguire )
Play us a waltz ( Charlie Maguire )


Sketches, Sponsors, People, Places

Bob's Bank
Chatterbox Cafe
Father Emil
Hotel Minnesota
Krueger, Daryl
Powdermilk Biscuits
Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery


'The News from Lake Wobegon'

Our Lady church was packed for the Ash Wednesday service. There is no Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras) celebration in LW. People were relieved to learn that they were dust not ice. Father Emil preached a sermon on renunciation. The Lutherans say it's easy for the Catholics to renounce because they never had that much fun in the first place. Some of the Lutherans can stand to do some fasting. The dream LW Leonards team lost to St. Agnes 52 to 48. They were much better than St Agnes. Some of the players did not go to school after a bad night's sleep. Mrs. Kruger told her son, Daryl, how her husband got sick during the wedding. He had been celebrating too much. The priest signed the license but she was not sure the marriage was legal. She said that she loved him even if he was illegitimate. He went to school and stumbled through his classes.


Other mentions/discussions during the show

GK's trip to New York to promote the Happiness Kindling and Firewood Company. Staying at the Hotel Minnesota is just like home. GK reads his poem about meat balls.


Notes and References

1982.02.27 LA Times / 1982.02.27 Johnson City Press: Persuasions, Charlie McGuire, BTT, Stoney Lonesome / 1982.02.26: Only Charlie and Butch. Berto: "Next week's program will feature the Laketown Buskers, Tom Lieberman, Becky Reamer Thompson, and the Dale Worland Singers. Last week, there PHC programs in New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC." / Audio of the News available as a digital download.

Archival contributors: Frank Berto


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