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A while back, we invited listeners to send us a short story or a poem about their homes for a feature called "Stories from Home."
We're resurrecting this feature, but we're calling it "First Person" a place for you to give us your stories, poems, or short fiction. So far it's been a resounding success with entries from all over the countryand beyond.
October 2007 archive
- Pruning by Joyce Brown (10/31/07)
- What's Next, No Pulling Weeds? by Tim Ehlerding (10/31/07)
- Privy by Bruce Trice (10/24/07)
- Similies by John Wood (10/24/07)
- Fried Corn Meal Mush by Gail Jeidy (10/17/07)
- In this Dream by Steve Alden Nelson (10/17/07)
- Mom's Shelf by Riva Duncan (10/10/07)
- Gone are the Days When... by Nathaniel Letcher (10/10/07)
- Autumn Memories by Judith Sturgess (10/03/07)
- A Long Ride back to Ottumwa by Kristin Gilchrist (10/03/07)
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June 14, 1931, My Father Read to Me
By Gloria Sanders (05/08/08)
The Blue Iris
By Mary Grace Dembeck (05/08/08)
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Relive all the glory of past joke shows with our selection of pretty good merchandise. A selection of joke books and CDs containing every morsel of comedy from most of our (in)famous Joke Shows. Hundreds of snickers, howlers, one-liners, and groaners, audience-tested and certified Pretty Good.
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Scripts and bits from A Prairie Home Companion celebrate the secret society of men and women who possess excellent spelling and punctuation skills. (You know who you are.)
Selections include "The Six-Minute Hamlet," a tribute to Emily Dickinson, a Guy Noir adventure that exposes an MFA scam, a riveting "Professional Organization of English Majors" drama, and guests Billy Collins, Robert Bly, Roy Blount Jr., and Calvin Trillin.
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The soundtrack to Robert Altman's take on Garrison Keillor's radio show features 25 songs. If you are an avid A Prairie Home Companion listener, you know what to expect: a delightful mix of music and fun by APHC regulars including the Guy's All Star Shoe Band, Robin & Linda Williams and Jearlyn Steele, among others, plus some amazing music by a diverse slate of guest performers. Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin duet as the singing Johnson sisters on "My Minnesota Home" and "Goodbye to my Mama." Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly appear as Dusty and Lefty, the singing cowboys, and warble "Whoopi Ti Yi Yo" and the crowd pleasing but crusty song "Bad Jokes." Lindsay Lohan delivers "Frankie and Johnny".
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