May 24, 2008
This week on A Prairie Home Companion we're broadcasting live from the Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park in Vienna, VA. With special guests, the all American bluegrass girl, Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, and internationally adored tenor Raúl Melo. Also with us, the
Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe
Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon.
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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Mr. Noir:
Why is the incidence of drunken driving so much higher in the Midwest than in other parts of the country?
Kenny W.
Craig, Colorado
The incidence of drunken driving is not higher, just the incidence of arrests. Chalk it up to more law enforcement. I can remember, back in the day, leaving parties when my ability to drive was in question and navigating the road home, trying not to cross that centerline. In Minnesota you just
don't dare do that anymore. Cops are out in force, watching, waiting. They don't hesitate to make arrests. Thus the high incidence, thus the "shocking" story in the media about the Midwest.
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If you would like to see A Prairie Home Companion live, here is your chance!
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 kind of number travels a lot? A roamin' numeral.
This joke was sent in by Seth P. of New York, NY. Thanks Seth!
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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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May 19, 2008
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. I spent most of those two hours throwing together a hotdish for Sunday's church picnic. Every once in a while, when the kids are outside and Mr. Sundberg is napping or away for the weekend, I like to experiment a bit in the kitchen and try to come
up with a new recipe with what's left in the cupboards. I'm not always successful, but it's usually a good time...
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May 13, 2008
The beauty of May is that the whole country is more or less on the same page, called Spring, and Spring is Spring, in Minnesota or California or Georgia or Vermont. Slightly different birds and flowers, same feeling. April is blowing snow up north, and by June my friends in Georgia will be chained
to their air conditioners, but here for a few weeks we are more unum than pluribus...
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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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