A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor

To: bob & katie mearns
hey mom & dad, wishind you a happy anniversery. love eva & matthew
—eva mearns

To: Carlo spinale
Happy 10th Birthday, Honey. May your memories of winter in St. Paul keep you cool when we return to Austin. Your friend arrives next week.
—Dawne Spinale

To: Karen Lyon
Get well soon. The staff misses you, your students miss you, and nobody wants to clean the staff room refrigerator.
—Dodie Bedell

To: Andrew and Elizabeth
A big valentine smooch to our punk-band-bass-playing son in Seattle and our church-choir-vocalist daughter in Peoria. You both make beautiful music.
—Nancy and Phil Kress

To: Mom and Jill
I am so glad you made it to the Twin Cities. I have been looking forward to another gathering of the Tri-State Girls Club for months!
—Ashley Hatchett

To: Nathan
Nathan: Happy Birthday! You'll always be 'Nate the Great' to us. Love, Your Family
—Sarah Lasnetski

To: Van Mask
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
—Angee French

To: Dottie Larsen
Happy 80th Birthday! We can't wait to help you celebrate at PHC this weekend. Love from your youngest son-in-law!
—Tim Kastrup

To: Dottie Larsen
Happy 80th birthday, mom! You have cooked more than 65,000 meals, baked more than 100,000 cookies, been a wife for 58 years, a mom to four, a Grandma 11 times and a Great-Grandma five times. But who’s counting? This weekend we're here helping you celebrate your 80th birthday at PHC!
—Larsen Family

To: Julie
Get better soon sweetie - the homeless in Fredericton will miss your smiling face at the soup kitchen.
—Mac Haynes

To: Doris Radcliffe
Mom you make all of our lives better. We all (and you know who they are) could not make it through without you. Happy, happy more than 60 birthday!
—Pat Davis

To: Dottie Larsen
Happy 80th Birthday Mom from your family. We estimate she has cooked 65,000 meals, made 100,000 cookies, and given countless hugs. She's been a wife for 58 years, a mom, grandma, and great-grandma. We love you. Happy Birthday!
—Kristin Kastrup

To: Nathan
Happy Birthday from your family!
—Sarah Lasnetski

To: Larry
Howdy. having fun with no school. talk to you later larry
—David Keller

To: Martin Brothers
Hi Dad, You have been listening to Prairie Home Companion since I was a little girl so I know you must be listening now in little old North Salem, New York. I just want you to know I bought you and Mom live tickets to see Mr. Keillor in New York City. "Holy Mackerel," I know. Love, Stephanie.
—Stephanie Brothers

To: Dave
Thanks to Dave, who despite being a despondent Bears fan, plowed us out from a mile-long, five-foot-high drift on Monday morning.
—Rich Stromberg

To: Sam
Greeting for Columbus, OH show on Valentines Day 2007: The past year with you, and planning for our upcoming wedding, has been the best time in my life. And even though you're Catholic, and I'm a Lutheran, this will only help our children understand the real meaning of Uff-Da......
—Chris Laingen

To: Kathleen
Hey Enjoy our snowday today! Woo hoo! I thought the world except us was closed, but WOO-HOO!
—Grace G

To: Joe
Happy Anniversary and happy Valentines' Day....chocolate covered strawberries and champagne await us. Love to you forever.
—Hannah Casey

To: Garrison
Q. Did you hear about the new brothel in Washington DC? A. They are calling it the "Bush Administration".
—Christopher Minnes (pronounced like Minnesota)

To: Carmen
This is just a note to say that your recent joke show was the ultimate, never-ceasing, and best show I have ever heard. My husband and I, recent empty-nesters, rely on you to fill our Sunday afternoons with the re-broadcast. You will continue to be a part of our ritual, but all other activities ceased during this particular show. Kudos! Concerning the boos in Philadelphia -- dont' worry or bother with that city. In normal cases, the concenus of a crowd will gravitate to goodness, at least what is perceived as goodness ("Julius Caesar" aside). Philadelphia is the only city where a 12-year-old ball girl could be booed, and I wish that were a joke and not something I witnessed. The only way I will ever get to see the Liberty Bell and other treasures of that city is when they go on tour and leave that hell-hole. Don't you ever go back there!
—Carmen Munger

To: Jason
Happy Birthday at the end of the month. Doing it now before I forget. I know you will not be listening to the show because of work or church. Mr Keillor will not even probably play this on his show, so I tried. Greeting to the family in Ohio from your son in Alaska.
—Matthew Stark

To: Sol & Belle Weinstein
Mom & Dad, we're here in Wisconsin where it's 10 below. You just moved to your summer home in Florida. I hear there was a tornado there last week. It's cold here, but, we've still got our house. Hope all is well with you.
—Steve Weinstein

To: Mom and Dad
why do farts stink? so deaf people can enjoy them too
—Nicholas Misak

To: The two school teachers I met while waiting inline to buy tickets to the show
Thanks for your warm company on that cold December morning and don't worry, I'll never tell a soul that you had to play hooky to be there.
—Dave (the guy you thought was homeless) Finstrom