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A Prairie Home Companion was a weekly radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor that aired live from 1974 to 2016. In 2016, musician Chris Thile took over as host, and the successor show was eventually renamed Live from Here and ran until 2020.
They are prefaced by "A Letter from Copenhagen." At the time of the book's initial publication, Keillor had left A Prairie Home Companion, and this was apparently a farewell to Lake Wobegon. He would, however, return to the program and to creating Lake Wobegon monologues in the 1990s.
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (/ ˈ k iː l ər /; born August 7, 1942) is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality.He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion (called Garrison Keillor's Radio Show in some international syndication), which he hosted from 1974 to 2016.
Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon is a novel by Garrison Keillor, a humorous fictional account of life in the fictitious heartland town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota. It was first published in hardcover by Viking Press in September 2007. Lake Wobegon is one of the habitats of the radio show Prairie Home Companion.
Described as a small rural town in central Minnesota, the events and adventures of the townspeople provided Keillor with a wealth of humorous and often touching stories. [1] [2] Keillor has said that people often ask him if it is a real town, and when he replied that it was not, they seemed disappointed because "people want stories to be true".
Beach Amusement Park Galveston: 1920–1950 Formerly operated as Old Mill Park, and later as Crystal Park. Boardwalk Fun Park: Grand Prairie: 1982–1992 Busch Gardens: Houston: 1971–1973 Castle Golf and Games Houston: Early 1970s–2005 Clown Around Grand Prairie: Dolphin Cove South Padre Island: Earth Quest Adventures: New Caney: Cancelled ...
Keillor eventually began to parody MPR's then-classical playlist by playing pop music. The initial deviation from the classical playlist was the Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda." [1] In 1971, it adopted the name A Prairie Home Morning Show. Keillor's good-natured sense of humor is credited with allowing him to expand the playlist.
IL 255 starts at I-270 in Pontoon Beach and ends at U.S. Route 67 (US 67) in Godfrey, at a total length of approximately 23.3 miles (37.5 km). It was constructed in four segments opening from 1998 to 2012 at a total cost of $165.2 million.