A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor

To: Ken
At 70 new love is still special. To our future whatever and wherever it may be.
—GeorgeAnn Moore

To: Dave & Val
Enjoy your first trip to Minnesota and the PHC. Doesn't look good for the kayaks back home in Maine, but thanks anyway. Love, Mary and Bill.
—Bill Blais

To: Janet Sarbaugh
cough so I know your really in the audience
—Bill McAllister

To: Tom and Louise
To Tom and Louise Hartley in California, PA. It took me 20 years (in audience 10/5) to make it here. It is almost as good as the first time listeing at home gathered around the radio and listening to the Pittsburgh Broadcast. Don't tell Mr. Keillor i still have that cassette tape!
—James Lohr

To: Jen, Sarah, Boo and Drew
Minnesota greetings to you ohioans, enjoying the sights with brother Steve and Joan. It's great at the Fitzgerald with friend Garrison.
—Paul Butler

To: Mom & Dad & Uncle Allan
We made it. Know you are watching from the big tomato patch on high. We brought Steve along, just so you know he found us.
—Anita Butler

To: Katrina
Just wishing yourself a happy 33rd birthday, seeing as how no one else in your family with think to do so in such a public manor. That's what you sign up for when you become a mom, and birthdays never live up to one's own expectations. But you never know, something may just end up surprising you before the day is out - such as Garrison actually wishing you a happy birthday himself.
—Katrina King

To: Myrtle Schmeckpepper
Yes, but did you read it as well. And by the way congrats on your new job.
—Theo Alexander

To: Karla Kitch
Happy Birthday my sweet, sweet Lake Oswego bride! I love you more and more everyday and look forward to many more celebrations with you. Love, Jim & the bubbas.
—Jim Kitch

To: Roger Hughes and Esther-Russell Hughes
Love from Nottingham, and I look forward to hopping back across the pond to come home for Christmas.
—Kelly Hughes

To: Tom Henry
To Cindy To think it's been 11 years on Oct 5th since we wed in preachers grove at Itasca State Park. The perfect autumn colors with the perfect people gathered for the perfect party. What a day!!! Tom any chance this can get aired on the program tonight?
—tom Henry

To: Ed & Trish Clark
Happy Anniversary, Mom & Dad! Here's to 30 years of love, laughter, and knee-slapping jokes! Love, Melissa
—Melissa Clark

To: dennis and sonja
Happy 28th anniversary! Fargo's nice but its a long way to Mpls to be entertained. (in audiance)
—bob and kristi vincent

To: Susan And Mark
Your fluff may indeed be close to puff, but I've always been partial to both anyways. Love you!
—Brynn Damon

To: Dennis and Sonja
Happy 28th anniversary. Fargo's nice but its a long drive to be entertained.
—Bob and Kristi Vincent

To: Rowan Stoves
Grandpa welcomes you to life outside of Mom! 8lbs 15½oz, 20¾in, 10/3/2007.
—James Stoves

To: Terry Brown & Trudy Wilson
...of Portland, OR, welcome to our town. Your daughter has been at school here four years, what's taken you so long to visit?
—Greg Loxtercamp & Stephanie Zahrbock

To: Heather McMullan
Happy Birthday! Wish I could be in Charlotte Saturday to celebrate and enjoy "Prairie Home Companion" together.
—Barbara Gade

To: Sonny Burchfield
Happy Birthday to the best stepfather in the world, and good luck with your surgery this week! All my love, Rabbit in Huntsville
—Erin Keniston

To: Sadao Ohata
Now is the time to read books and listen tothe music and radio.No season is more than autumn.
—Maurice Ronet

To: Janet Krueger
Hi Mom (in Carlsbad-by-the-Sea, California)- Garrison missed your BIG BASH last December 13! So, now that you are almost 91, how do you like it? Your four wonderful kids love you lots!
—Stephanie Watkins

To: Gerald and Cynthia Peterson
Fifty years for Sputnik, fifty years for the Petersons! Happy anniversary!
—Celeste and Tycho Peterson

To: Cameron
Even though we are divided by an ocean and several time zones divide us, I still feel like you are with me. I love you very much and in my heart we are always together. Happy (early) anniversary and I miss you, dear.
—Alisha Kirchoff

To: Theo Alexander
Sure, I read "Middlesex" faster than you read "The Tin Drum," but you're still the champion of literature in this house.
—Myrtle Schmeckpepper

To: Willie
Remember, altitude is your friend!
—Jim Nageotte

To: Kate Fessenden
Congratulations to Mikey from Minnesota on his engagement to Kate-the-Great fom New York State !
—Martha Fessenden

To: MacLaren David Peace
Happy 65th Birthday Dad! We love you very much.
—Kevin & Tasha Kaufman

To: Frank
You were right we were meant for each other. I was wrong you aren't delusional. Happy 5th Anniversary!
—Nilaja Troy

To: Uncle Jim Campbell
We hope you feel better soon and remember which way the gown goes on during your visit to the hospital. All our love from Colorado!
—Lisa Kujawa-Levine

To: Rob Voss - Husband
October 27 2007: Happy Anniversary My Darling. Aren't we fantastic newly-weds? (our 6th yr); even though you're still an old fart in the Army (34th year); and you're still in a war (6th year); and we're still apart (3rd year); I MISS YOU and LOVE YOU SO MUCH
—Anya Montgomery