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    A Prairie Home Companion: The Final Performance
    A Prairie Home Companion: The Final Performance
    A Prairie Home Companion: The Final Performance
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    A Prairie Home Companion: The Final Performance

    Written by Garrison Keillor

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    About this audiobook

    Here's the last weekly live broadcast that started it all-the glorious tradition of saying goodbye. The final performance (June 13, 1987) brought Garrison Keillor and guests together for sweet music, sparkling wit, and the latest "News from Lake Wobegon."

    Contents: Hello Love; Loves Old Sweet Song; Garrison Talks of Leaving; Tell Me Why; Jitterbug Waltz; The Storms Are on the Ocean; Powdermilk Biscuit Spot; How Can I Keep from Singing?; Songs of Parting; Greetings; Roy Blount Poem; I'll See You in My Dreams; Brownie and Pete; Spring Poem; Crow River Waltz; Buster the Show Dog; Oh Susanna; America the Beautiful; Adventures in Paradise; Aloha Oe; Intermission Medley; Stars Stripes Forever; Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet; Meet Me in St. Louis; The Sons of Knute Fishing March; News From Lake Wobegon; Sleepwalk, Eskray Love Lilt; Til Then; The Minstrel Show; Hawaii Aloha; Fool Such as I; One More Spring; Till We Meet Again; Songs of the Exiles.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJul 29, 2008
    ISBN9781598879995
    A Prairie Home Companion: The Final Performance
    Author

    Garrison Keillor

    Garrison Keillor, born in Anoka, Minnesota, in 1942, is an essayist, columnist, blogger, and writer of sonnets, songs, and limericks, whose novel Pontoon the New York Times said was “a tough-minded book . . . full of wistfulness and futility yet somehow spangled with hope”—no easy matter, especially the spangling. Garrison Keillor wrote and hosted the radio show A Prairie Home Companion for more than forty years, all thanks to kind aunts and good teachers and a very high threshold of boredom. In his retirement, he’s written a memoir and a novel. He and his wife, Jenny Lind Nilsson, live in Minneapolis and New York.

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