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at the Old Faithful Lodge Recreation Hall |
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Yellowstone National Park |
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Saturday, July 5, 1997 click here for a RealAudio rebroadcast of the entire show |
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Public radio's A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor came to Yellowstone to help celebrate the park's 125th anniversary. The July 5, 1997 live broadcast of the show was the final stop of a national tour that included broadcasts from Cleveland, Miami, Oklahoma City, and Seattle. The graphic at left was used in the program for those shows. |
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Well, it has been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon...
Garrisons Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" is broadcast live every Saturday night at 6PM (eastern time) on public radio stations nationwide. On July 5, 1997, Keillor brought his radio show to Yellowstone's Old Faithful Lodge recreation hall for a live program that included old campfire songs, a visit with park superintendent Mike Finley, ranger Ann Deutsch, live remotes to Old Faithful (which performed admirably during the show), and to volunteers from GOSA (aka Geyser Observation Society of America), and singing waiters and waitresses from the Old Faithful Inn dining room. Keillor's weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" told the story of a car trip to Yellowstone in 1955 with his uncle, aunts, and cousins. Click here for a rundown and Real Audio clips from the Prairie Home Companion Yellowstone Show, including KEILLOR'S 20-MINUTE YELLOWSTONE MONOLOGUE (RA).
Photo from Prairie Home Companion 1997 Tour Program (used with permission from
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about Garrison Keillor. . . |
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GARRISON KEILLOR was born in Anoka, Minnesota in 1943. He hosted his first broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion on July 6, 1974. It is now heard each Saturday evening by nearly 3.9 million listeners on over 511 public radio stations. Keillor's book Lake Wobegon Days reached the top of the New York Times best seller list in 1987, and his set of audio tapes of the same name received a Grammy Award. He has written 12 books, and contributed frequently to The Atlantic Monthly and Time. Keillor also hosts the 5 minute daily radio program, The Writer's Almanac. |
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Click here for a link to Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion |
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