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Greetings
April 18-24, 2004
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April 24, 2004
Marissa Kantor,
Have a great birthday in the thriving
metropolis of Gahanna, Ohio, or wherever
life has taken you on this National
"Marissa Kantor Day."
- Larry
Craig and Carolyn,
Craig and Carolyn, I hear the snow in Duluth finally melted enough to get that blamed car out of the garage.
Now if you can just find the cat...
- Joan
George & Lois in Massachusetts,
Its Saturday night and a lotta people like you are listening. Have a great evening gathered with friends listening together.
- Bob & Joan in Ohio
Rick,
Garrison has thought of everything! It's not
the train to Maine, but you can laugh out loud
and nobody will gets mad. Wish you were
here.
- Patt
Louis, Ann & Lars; Dan & Linda,
Good to hear Duluth voices out here on the volcano--our house still safe from lava. Keep those Prarie Home airwaves coming across the Pacific.
- Erik & Alicia
Maggie,
I'm listening via the web in Tokyo! Some day we'll take the family to Duluth ,gooseberry falls and the gun flint trail!
I'll be home soon!
- Brad
April 23, 2004
Margaret in Cheshire, Connecticut,
Happy Birthday greetings! May a bottle of ketchup be always on your table, Powdermilk biscuits in your oven and the radio turned up loud so when can hear the show from the other room.
- Louis
Danny My Sunshine,
You always make me smile. You're the sunshine of my life. I know you're listening so you'd better call me!
- Smiley Melissa
Dear CharlieB,,
Captivated by your note & you like books and
dogs, too! Could get a crush on you.
Personal suits me, too.
You can rely on the comfort of me!
- no "rats!" justa "sweetmouse!"
Dee and Bernie,
Now that you are seeing the show live in Duluth, are you as excited about it as when you listened on the radio? We're just asking. So are you or what?
- Marilyn and Ken
Mary Anderson,
You're sitting way back here in row double A, but you're still Major League in my book. And even though the baseball metaphor is kind of weak, my love for you is as strong as ever.
- Tim Andereson
Mom and Dad,
Hello from France, where I went on strike for the first time in my life. For what reason, I am not sure; but we were really angry.
- Your son, Steve
Paka, Sami, Megan, Mom, and Dad,
Just wanted to thank you for putting me up and putting up with me these eighteen years. Could never have made it this far without you (please remember this next year when I haven't called in months). Lots of love from your rising college freshman.
- Erin
Hazel Richmond,
Duluth just has not been the same since you left. The winters are longer, the lutefisk is smellier, and the duluthians talk sounds even funnier. Can't wait for your return in the fall.
- Dave and Meghan Brown
Marcel,
Happy Birthday! I'm so glad Garrison came to Duluth to celebrate your birthday. Do you think he will come back next year?
- Julie
April 22, 2004
Jim D.,
Pops-
Happy 75th Birthday!
All My Love -
Josie Beans
- Chris
Ramona "Punkin" Emmer,
Jack and Christian say happy birthday to Ole's little Punkin (who will be at the show).
- Troy Bracher
GENE AND VICKIE BAILEY,
Who drove all the way to Nashville from Monticello, GA to celebrate their anniversary, and to see if Garrison was as funny in person as he is, ok, can be, on the radio...
- RAY DAVIS
Mike,
The snow is all gone. Spring is Here. Summer is Near. The garden needs hoeing and the seeds need sowing. Please hurry Honey, I'm really getting tired of taking out the trash! So Hurry Home to Embarrass. We Miss You! Love, Your "One Hot Mama" with kids
- Kim
April 21, 2004
Mary Jean,
From one anal retentive to another - Happy Birthday, Mary Jean. Don't hold back, let it all hang loose! Your friend, Peggy Rae
- Peggy Rae
Mariola (MAHR E O LAH),
Mariola,
Happy 5th anniversary.
I love you, I love you, I love you.
- Ross Bush
Hello C-"rats!",
Captivated by your note
and you like books, too!
Could get a crush on you.
Nor amazone like mitsouko -
more p-ersonal suits me.
Saucy stranger!
- Not a Joker, A Wild Card
Bob McMinn,
Just an early Anniversary present to my husband, Bob... this is the one time that I won't relegate you to the basement to listen to the full show!
- Margaret McMinn
Handsome Fish & Game Guy,
Hurry home! The pig ears are in short suppy and Louie is trying to incite a riot. I miss you! Take care and be safe.
- Your Probation Officer
Geri ,
Greetings from the shores of the great Gitchee Gumee. Looking forward to your summer visit, sunsets and s'mores. Be cool in sunny Tucson ... until then.
- Jeanne
April 20, 2004
The People Of Crosby-Ironton,
You may have embarrassing pictures of me from Eastertide. Keep in mind, I still have the pantyhose. I will wear them if I have to.
- Lord Betty
Blake matlock,
Happy 12th birthday to our son (4/28) , We told you we would get Garrison Keillor to say your name today! Now a deals a deal, were only saving for state college!
- Gavin & Juanita matlock
Wild Bill in Dallas,
Since you haven't quite decided what to do with the rest of your life....Pick me!! Pick me!!! Because I'm the one who loves you somethin' awful!!!!
- Patti
mary mittens,
hope you are feeling better after your operation and don't worry about anything , i will clean up everything 5 minuates before you come home. don't listen to the neighbors, they never liked me anyway. love victor.
- victor smith
Rebecca Hosta,
Congratulations on passing your Master's comps and I wish many 'kicks' as you travel the "Mother Road", Route 66, next month.
Always your best friend, Mom
- Barbara Hosta
April 19, 2004
Mom Robinson,
Greetings to Sue, my motorcycle mama and her Hell's angel wannabe man Steve. From Pirate Jenny and that happy seadog Rick aboard the good ship High Country, still plundering the waters of the Virgin Islands.
Miss you guys. See you soon.
- Jenny West
Lacy,
Happy 17th Birhtday! You'll always be our little bunny!! Love You!
- Mom and Dad
Ellen,
Dearest Ellen, Happiest of Birthdays! What a joy to share all these "29 & holding" years with such an adorable "baby" sister! Love always, Sandy
- Sandy
April 18, 2004
Auntie P and Uncle Boots,
So glad to hear you switched to the right party. Now all you have to do is leave Bismark and move to San Diego and you'll be perfect!
Love,
- Judy
Grandma and grandpa,
I hope your actually listening when you get this message. I love you and the purse is awsome!
- Richelle
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In Garrison Keillor's latest book, Lake Wobegon native Margie Krebsbach dreams up the idea of a trip to Rome, hoping to get her husband Carl to make love to her — he's been sleeping across the hall and she has no idea why. She finds a patriotic purpose for the journey. A Lake Wobegon boy, Gussie Norlander, died in the liberation of Rome, 1944, and his grave, according to his elderly brother, Norbert, is in a neglected weed patch near the Colosseum...
It's a story of Wogegonians in a strange land, telling stories of kinship and self-revelation — all delivered with Keillor's trademark humor.
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From Garrison Keillor:
“When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon, I come in peace, I depart in gratitude.”
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