Richard Allison, Stevie Beck, Philip Brunelle, Dan Dressen, Garrison Keillor, Tom Keith, Kate MacKenzie, John Nieman, Stockholm Accordion Club.
One More Fall in Minnesota ( Garrison Keillor ) Give me the roses while I live ( Stevie Beck , Garrison Keillor ) Don't You See That Train? ( Garrison Keillor , Kate MacKenzie ) Tango Marguerita (Stockholm Accordion Club ) Undecided (Stockholm Accordion Club ) Are You From Dixie? ( Stevie Beck ) Minnesota (Oklahoma) ( Dan Dressen ) Poem to 25th Anniversary Couple ( Garrison Keillor ) Because (parents song) ( Dan Dressen ) Wooden Shoe Polka (Stockholm Accordion Club ) Novelty Accordian (Stockholm Accordion Club ) The Swedish Flag (Stockholm Accordion Club ) Somebody's Darling ( Kate MacKenzie , Garrison Keillor , John Nieman ) Election 1986 Poem ( Garrison Keillor ) Morning Serenade of capitols and States(Rossini) ( Dan Dressen )
Gourmet Cooking (Garrison does a cooking skit about gourmet cooking and hides his cookbook to impress guests. Eventually, he gets his own TV cooking show but has to be honest that he is not a real cook!) Public Interest Message on Sleep (Story of a TV weatherman who lost his job because he did not get enough sleep even though at 43 his mother still tries to advise him!)
One old maple tree has turned a luminous yellow. Last night was Halloween. Half of the children dressed up as hobos and the other half were dressed up as rich people. There are long dark stretches between houses. Mr Geske lives back in the shadows. He visited the cemetery every day to put flowers on his mother's grave. One day, he dug a very deep bed to plant petunias and dug up his mother's body and sat it in the kitchen with a cup of coffee and a plate of lemon meringue pie. The children can see a shadow in the background. Daryl and Marilyn Tolerude got out the ouiji board to communicate with her father. After a long silence, her dad said he was not so bad. Late at night, people heard a door slam. Then they heard angry voices. Then GK's mother said that she always hated the last week before the election. GK's mother is a peacemaker. GK sometimes made his mother very angry. A neighbor put his hand in the circular saw. GK nearly passed out. His mother took charge. GK grew up in the Sanctified Brethren. The men were capable of self righteousness. They belonged to 'The Church." The SB came out of the Anglican church. They were afflicted with scriptural scholarship and continually fought and divided into smaller churches. There was a division between the Jamesians and the Jacksonians over showing hospitality to non-believers. This broke Uncle Al's heart because he had friends on both sides. He arranged for James and Jackson to come for dinner and eat Aunt Flo's fried chicken. The sat in living room in awesome silence. There was a problem with the table grace. To avoid any problem, Uncle Al arranged that grace would be silent. It went on and on because no one was willing to be the first to say, "Amen." It was the longest table grace ever. The two brothers still kept their faces down. Finally Aunt Flo got up and set the delicious fried chicken down in front of them. Everyone opened their eyes and ate with tears in their eyes.
Garrison compliments the Stockholm Accordion Club members (33 of 100) on their red shirts. Later tells them some parts of Minnesota are more Swedish than Sweden. Garrison comments on Stevie Beck's first appearance on APHC 12 years ago and the first song she did, Are you from Dixie?
1986.10.31 Star Tribune
Archival contributors: Frank Berto, Ken Kuhl