A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor

To: The kids from Camby, Indiana
Greetings to all my surviving school mates from the 1940's. West Newton, Camby and Valley Mills were so much different when the Grand Ol Opry was the biggest thing on radio. Cars with fenderskirts, foxtails, whitewalls, spotlights, steering knobs,--yeah.
—Frank Thornburgh

To: Erin
Darlin' Daughter, We can't wait to see you at Thanksgiving. I'll make turkey & stuffing, & dad will try to finish painting your bedroom.Love from your mama
—Susan Fenton

To: Frank
Happy Birthday! I hope we were able to get tickets and you are hearing this live at the December 8th show. Love Always, Susan
—Susan Minasian

To: Grandma Gerda
To Mom...you started in Berlin, spent the middle of your life in Tenerife and now, thankfully you ended up here in the Twin Cities for your finale! Happy 90th Birthday to Grandma Gerda. Love Rod, Les, Colleen and the gang
—Rod Martel

To: Ron-Michael
RM-- We are soooo happy to have you back home in Minnesota for your "vacation from the war" and attending your FIRST Prairie Home Companion show tonight (11/4)-- We know it's warmer in Baghdad but your children (Ruby-Kate, Max, Annika, and Baby Lucy) will keep hugging you for the next two weeks to compensate for the Minnesota windchill. From-- Your ever-loving and ever-patient wife, who will always out-rank you...Daisy
—Daisy Pellant

To: Read and Becky
Hope all is well Lucedale. Winter around the corner
—john clow

To: Sherry Kelleher
Mom and Dad, Everything at school's great. Don't worry, I don't party too often. Just don't ask what I wore on Halloween. Love
—Laura Kelleher

To: Matthew Fisher
I know it's early, but here's a birthday greeting to you from all of us back home. We hope you're having a good time researching in Switzerland. Stay healthy and happy, and have a wonderful birthday!
—Catherine Rinella

To: Garrison Keillor
I just saw the movie in Melbourne (Australia) last night. What can I say? Just when you think the world has turned into a Pepsi inspired homogenised nightmare, there is light. And I just read 'Love Me'. I think I just could. Keep at it people!
—Jacquie Byron

To: mary koranda
Greetings to our favorite volunteer from Frank, Mary O'hearn, Reidun and all the folks you visit every day at Tabor Hills Nursing Home in Naperville.
—frank fassl

To: Hugo
A heartfelt thanks to my wonderful boyfriend, who is flying me to St. Paul this Saturday for a friend's wedding. Why oh Why Cruel World did it have to be on the same night as Prairie Home Companion's live show?! Life is cruel, is it not?
—Nora Wrana

To: Jon and Karen
Happy Anniversary. Hope you don't get lost wandering around St. Paul.
—Janelle Roker

To: Christine O'Connor
Happy 50th Birthday to Chris O'Connor. While you're in Lake Wobegone, you'll never get older! Hugs to Tony and Kate.
—Dennis Conlon

To: ruth and john hughes
happy 35th wedding aniversary, glad you made it this long. hopefully samantha and i will someday meet someone worth spending that much time with. we love you sarah and samantha
—sarah hughrs

To: Pastor Brian Knutson
The Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer in Fort Morgan Colorado chose you as their Pastor,now stop telling the Pentecostals we baptize in beer.
—Maggie Knutson

To: Amy Lynn
How lucky I am to have found my best friend and been twice blessed to marry her! I love you very much!
—Michael DeWitt

To: Hannah Wilmot
Dear roommate, You are smelly and need to wash your sheets, hair and self. You are making me hate you, so take a bath. Really.
—Nellie van Root

To: maureen
black suit with red sneakers..? an absolute fashion DO ...for the spring runway shows. cutting edge-retro, and kinda country bumpkin- i LOVE it! where can i get some? let's do lunch...
—lindsey herrick

To: Mom
Sorry I didn't get home for Halloween, but save the extra candy for me. Dad's had enough.
—Michael Zaleski

To: Konrad
Thank you dad for introducing me to this wonderful show! I can drink my coffee, kick up my feet, and listen on line! Love you and mom Dana.
—Leigh Anne Dean

To: JoAnn M-
Your brother is writing to his family at the Fitz from Trondheim, Norway to say that he's eaten the lutefisk and he's started chemotherapy --- and frankly, both are like that ol' skunk under the front porch: You can't keep your distance and get rid of it at the same time. Come'on over!
—Dan Welschinger

To: My sister JoAnn,
Your brother is writing from Trondheim, Norway to say that he's eaten the lutefisk and he's started chemotherapy --- and frankly, both are like that ol' skunk under the front porch: You can't keep your distance and get rid of it at the same time. Come'on over!
—Dan Welschinger

To: Jane
Happy Birthday Jane, In almost twenty years of teaching children, you must have changed the world for the better. Love, Jack
—John Mccormack

To: Mom & Brian
Thanks for the home-cooked meals, breeze-dried clothes, and teaching me the difference between straw and hay. I love & miss you both to pieces.
—Katie Lombardo

To: Rachelle
What i miss most is you in the soft candle light and those rainy nights in Berkeley
—Mark Maus

To: Casey Lewis
A simultaneous Merry Christmas and happy birthday to Casey, wherever you are. (If you could, broadcast this around Christmas, and if he responds, give him my e-mail, please)
—Zoot Brann

To: douglas
hello darling
—stacey beck