Maxine Kumin
May 3, 2008
This week on A Prairie Home Companion we'll bring you a live broadcast performance from the
Civic Center Auditorium in Bangor, Maine. Featuring Pulitzer Prize winning poet Maxine Kumin, the David Mallet Trio, and a comprehensive artistic rediscovery of our regular cast: The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with Rich Dworsky, Pat Donohue, Gary Raynor, Andy Stein, and Peter
Johnson, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, and that
gangly guy with the socks. Join us this week, live from the Queen City of the East.
Prairie Home Reunion: Still Singing After All These Years brings together most of the old crowd whose music inspired the creation of this radio show back in the summer of 1974, including Bill Hinkley
and Judy Larson (The Original Powdermilk Muffins) with Cal Hand on dobro, pianist Butch Thompson, cowboy singing
idol Pop Wagner, the Powdermilk Biscuit Band of Adam Granger, Bob Douglas, and Mary DuShane, singer Becky Riemer Thompson, pianist and current Prairie Home Music Director, Rich Dworsky, and mandolinist and
composer Peter Ostroushko. As a special added attraction, the Brandy Snifters?Minnesota's Oldest Old-Time
Band?will offer a few tunes.
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Garrison:
I've heard you sing "Amazing Grace" to the Mickey Mouse Club theme song. I've searched high and low for how the words go in the song...I know that it is different than the hymn. I'm going to teach this for Bible school this summer. Please help. I did a Google search and couldn't find it. Love your
program.....!!!!!
Margo H.
Baltimore
Not sure I should tell you, Margo, since the Disney company can be mean and litigious and sic its hairy-handed lawyers on you for the slightest little thing, but the hymn fits the Mickey Mouse song very nicely.
Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me,
I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.
Amazing Grace! (Amazing Grace)
Amazing Grace! (Amazing Grace)
Forever let us hold our banner high (high, high, high)
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G G-R-A-C-E
I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.
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If you would like to see A Prairie Home Companion live, here is your chance!
On May 3, we head north to Bangor, Maine. By May 10, we're back in the Midwest — this time in Milwaukee. On May 23 and 24, we're on the stage of the Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park, Vienna, Virginia. We end the month with a May 31st show from the Pan American Center on the campus of
New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.
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What is green and fuzzy, has four legs and could kill you if it fell out of a tree?
- a pool table.
This joke was sent in by Katherine K. of Falls Church, VA Thanks Katherine!
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Listen to The News from Lake Wobegon wherever and whenever you want. We're pleased to announce GK's signature monologue is now available as a free podcast, updated every Monday.
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April 28, 2008
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. The fact that there was snow on the ground Saturday morning had put us all in a bit of a funk, so the show was something to look forward to on a day when our hopes for a walk in the sun had been thwarted. Of course, what you want and what you get
aren't always in sync and we all know this, so our weather-related GrumpFest was short-lived and we had some fun anyway and made eggrolls and cream cheese wontons and watched a movie or two. Deep fried food is a sure remedy for crabbiness, and it was...
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April 22, 2008
April is a propulsive force in the north. Snow melts and the flotsam of spring appears, a child's mitten in the mud, a soap bubble ring, the lilac bushes bud, a light haze of green shows in the tops of trees. The cry of the lawn mower is heard. Mating begins, females ruffling their tailfeathers,
young males biting the alpha male in the rump to drive him off. And soon, suddenly, all of nature will open up, leaf out, burgeon, thrive and prosper…
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Listener-submitted short stories or poems about their homes or lives or whatever they fancy. Here are the latest:
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Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon |
 In Lake Wobegon lives a good Lutheran lady who is quite prepared
to die and wishes to be cremated and her ashes placed inside a bowling ball and dropped into the lake, no prayers, no hymns, thank you very much. Meanwhile, the Detmer girl returns from California where she has made a killing in veterinary aromatherapy to marry her boyfriend Brent aboard Wally's
pontoon boat, presided over by her minister, Misty Naylor of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Spirit. Brent arrives on Thursday. On Saturday, a delegation of renegade Lutheran pastors from Denmark come to town on their tour of America, their punishment for having denied the divinity of Jesus. And
Barbara Peterson, whose mother, Evelyn, left the startling note about cremation and the bowling ball, is in love with a lovely fat man who slips around town in the dim light and reconnoiters with her at the Romeo Motel.
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