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A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor

Every Saturday, Garrison Keillor takes the stage and shares stories of the people and events of his hometown, Lake Wobegon, Minnesota.

From 2001 to summer 2003, we invited listeners to send us a short story or a poem about their homes for a feature called "Stories from Home."

Here we have collected some of the submissions. We hope you enjoy the stories. We'll be introducing more opportunities for listeners to submit their own work in the coming months.

Pennsylvania Moonlight
By Janet Hess

I watched my mother flip through the book, then study a single page.

"That's our best card," the man said. "It's our 1955 Special Limited Edition. You want, we can personalize." He looked at Russell. "Like The Russell B. Conlin Family, and then all your names. "... Continue...

 
Drinking Coffee at the Central City Cafe
By Laura Treacy Bentley

Tonight at the Carousel,
a stripper will shimmy the organic
macaroni right off the shelves...
Continue...

 
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A Cataclysmic Economic Downturn (3/15/03)
Small Town Full of Big Stories (3/15/03)
Coffebreak (3/15/03)
The Recipe for Gravity (2/1/03)
Appalachian Breeze (2/1/03)
Cassiopeia (12/20/02)
The Girl Who Learned to Levitate By First Learning to Breathe (12/20/02)
Slow Death in the Waiting Room (11/1/02_
Sneakers on a Wire (11/1/02)
Casserole Ladies (9/15/02)
Pain Redux (9/15/02)
Drinks All Around (7/1/02)
Wasteland Golf (5/22/02)
Bob Perryman (5/22/02)
Something Better (5/1/02)
Memories (5/1/02)
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Planting Wisteria (4/1/02)
Pancake Surprise (4/1/02)
On Turning 50, in Texas (3/1/02)
Girl Scout Gets Stuck (3/1/02)
Bullroarer (3/1/02)
Stella Maris (2/15/02)
The Cooking Circle (2/15/01)
A Glance Back (2/1/02)
The Long Goodbye (2/1/02)
Now It Looks Respectable (12/15/01)
Ordinary Poets (12/15/01)
Fisherman's Son (11/1/01)
The Dreamer (11/1/01)
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