A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor

To: Merrill Sapp
Congratulations on completing your PhD. from Mom & Dad
—Betty Sapp

To: Lennie and Mac McMillen
Happy Wedding Anniversary Mom and Dad! Still smiling after 62 years of marriage! WOW!
—June McMillen

To: Cindy Rive
The Greek 6 June... Delayed gratification. We dated at Lutheran High School 1966, a New Zealand Presbyterian exchange student and a Long Beach Lutheran girl. We met again in 2002, married and love life together in Long Beach CA. I love you Cindy.
—Philip Rive

To: Ellen and Alden
Hope to see you soon! I love you!
—Beth Kerschner

To: Their Family
Mitch & Starr from Silver City, New Mexico send best wishes to their family Back East. Doesn't Green Chile gelato sound good right about now?
—Mitchell Hellman

To: Big Fish Dadda
THANK YOU...For filling our home with live music, teaching our sons to cuss like sailors and care like sensitive new-age guys and always.... loving ...your crazy, redheaded wife.
—Lisa Carlson

To: Katherine and Craig Tyner
This year my folks (I love you, guys!) both turn 40...and celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary. Oh, wait, I think I got that backwards.
—Kelley McAllister

To: Stan, Marilue, Dr. Mcrae, Dennis, and Linda
Thanks for the hospitality on our recent stays. We'll come back through the midwest to pick up the things we left, no need to send them.
—Robert & Anne Watkins

To: Pete Eidenbach
Pedro-Pete-Dad, Happy 65th! Now you're truly elevated to the place for wizened-mountain-hippies. Rock on, you know we all love you, Sara, Kirstin, Samantha, Linda, Juha(you-ha), Gryph, Herkie, Sage, Mitch and Tonttuu.
—Sara Eidenbach

To: Elizabeth
Happy Birthday & Congratulations on completion of your residency Dr. Elizabeth Roberts as you head to Kodiak Alaska from Anchorage having started in Minnetonka MN. Love Wisconsin Mom.
—Audrey Roberts

To: Pat and Kent Ragland
Happy 40th anniversary to Kent and Pat--who'd've thought when you switched the placecards at prom in 1963 to peer over your dates' shoulders at each other that you'd end up here? Love, your kids and grandkids
—Kelley Ragland

To: Bob & Diana Schmidt
Hey, Mom and Dad in the deep woods of MN, Congrats on 36 years of gentle German/Norwegian bickering, deep conversations followed by witty replies in laughter, and two daughters whose only struggle was to figure out how to say "We love you now please pay this therapy bill!" Happy Anniversary!
—Allison & Caroline Schmidt

To: aquila
I hope you're having an amazing time with every facet of your life. Utila is great but i miss you very, very much. 3 weeks. i love you
—julia collins

To: Tom
Hope you are enjoying our weekend in Las Cruces, Happy 23rd Anniversary.
—Monica Gibson

To: Grandma Nell
Hi to Grandma Nell in Las Cruces from your new granddaughter Elena! Please send some Milagro coffee for Dad.
—Elena Seymour

To: Brendan Boland
Congratulations on finishing your residency! I'm so proud of you! Love Annie
—Anne Boland

To: Bret and Deanna Anderson
Hi Bret and Deanna, Give our latest Grand daughter (Violet)a big hug and we will be up in Minnesota my the end of June to get to know her.
—Dona and Tom (Gramma and Grampa) Devine

To: Richard Madison
Birthday wishes for 60 years of this Roswell resident, born 10 months after the aliens dropped ship. If only we knew the gestation period of aliens.
—Jo Anna Madison

To: Sam Sico (pronounced seeko)
If it's May 31st, I'm in the audience. Hope you're listening. Miss everyone back in New England. Love from Las Cruces,
—Bonnie Russell

To: Bobbie Rich
Hope you break out of your ANONYMOUS life and get to sing your music for Garrison and a duet with him too one day soon. I love you dearly. Ann
—Ann Onymous

To: Jeff Peckham
"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age." (French proverb) Happy 52nd birthday from Neal, Dale, and your ex-wife.
—Nancy Clein

To: Bob and Anne Watkins
Happy 54th Aniversary and many more, from the kids. Thank-you for surviving rain, hail, tornadic activity, two twenty-somethings, and an english muffin to be here. Glad you made it.
—Cindy Watkins

To: Donalee
Remember when we married you said you always wanted to see a live PHC broadcast? Well, here we are in Las Cruces and I finally got those tickets. Thanks for 27 wonderful years of patience! Happy Anniversary!
—Mike Bartholomew

To: The Magpies
The online quilting group The Magpies are in Las Cruces this weekend for their 5th real-life get-together. We say hi to the 'Pies who can't be with us in person!
—Nann Hilyard

To: Nolan Roddy
Grandma Mimi and Grandpa Hugh from Las Cruces wish our 2 and one half year old grandson a happy Saturday in MN. We will be in Edina soon bearing Georgie and Elmo 'big boy pants' for you.
—Mimi Roddy

To: Michael Sample
Happy 60th birthday to the greatest husband! You haven't missed a show since 1974. See why I said no bathroom until after the greetings? Love,
—Melinda Sample

To: Jasper Nordin
Have your Dad help you get the fishing rod ready. We see you in New London in July.Grandpa Owe
—Owe Bergh

To: Larry Sullivan
Hi Dad! Greetings from Seattle. Miss listening to Alice's Restaurant with you.
—Kaelyn Sullivan

To: Hildy and Ranger
Happy Aniversary to the wild and free Hildy and Ranger from Jillie Bean, Marian, Alex, Sugar and the Giz
—Marian Rosenblum

To: Ron & Kathy Cooke
Should have waited until June this year to return to cool, rainy Albany, NY. We'll miss you at the PHC show but know you'll be listening. It's beautiful here, winds have stopped and your house is still standing!
—Mike & Shirley Armstrong

To: Joe and Bobbie Provencio
Hi Mom and Dad! Your eight children would like to wish you a wonderfully happy 58th anniversary!! Have a great time! We Love You!!
—Michelle Provencio