A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor

To: Garrison Keillor
Have just heard your "Spring Show" and wanted to thank you for your gift of humor and music! Helps me keep my music-making light!
—Margo Simon

To: Earl Sears
In your hospital bed in Flagstaff AZ, we know you enjoyed "My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord". We're wishing you a speedy recovery and return home to IL. Greetings from Brasilia, Brazil!
—Otis and Betty Hochstetler

To: Heidi-Hi
Happy Birthday Beloved Heidi-Hi-- Mother of Mimi & twins Zoe & Howie, Wife of J-boy, and best of all, our daughter-in-law. Your intelligence, beauty, and gorgeous mane of red hair make our otherwise dull family shine. Thank you.
—Boppa Hugh

To: Helmuth Hoenig
I think back on the years we spent on Isle Royale and smile. You were always there to catch the stern line coming and the last one to wave going home...I'll miss you dearly. The blueberries picked with you were bluer than blue and as big as my thumb, and your many cooked meals prepared with joy and love, a treasure. You caught the biggest fish, but let me come in second, and I'll never forget you. I know it's goodbye but not forever.....I'll see you again, my friend, on Isle Royale heaven.
—jenwa hoffman

To: Alan Byrd
To my wonderful husband. I love and look forward to our Praire Home Companion date night. After 20 years your still the one! all my love, Debbie
—Debbie Byrd

To: Jennifer
Have a good move to your new place next week. Thanks to your friends for helping. See you in March. Mom and Dad in Wauwatosa
—Marcia Bauer

To: Earl and Jane Sears
Get-well wishes to my uncle Earl, who set out to do voluntary service in Arizona, but ended-up experiencing a three-week stay in Flagstaff's hospital, in Colorado. Keep-up your spirits, we miss you.
—Richard Hochstetler

To: my brother Steve
thanks for introducing me to the uplifting show, Prairie Home Companion ! ...it makes working weekends sweeter :) love from your desert-dwelling sister
—Nancy Freeman

To: Gary & the Boys
A big SHOUT OUT to Gary and the boys at Diesel Truck Driving School in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin! Wish you were all here!
—Renee Rostad

To: Ray
Be strong, Ray. The ECT will end eventually. They can't keep on electrocuting your brain forever - some day the funding will run out.
—Kent Reedy

To: Lorna
Thanks for telling the story on national radio about my friend who continues to get involuntary electroshock. You are a real journalist.
—David Oaks

To: Reeder Fahnestock
Supposedly, 30 is the new 29...or 25, or 20. Whatever age you choose to act, your Forest Street family hopes you enjoy your birthday!
—Leslie Dillon

To: Bill Munroe
Happy 80th birthday, to a wonderful Dad and Granddad. We love you.
—Libby Munroe-Overberg

To: Lyda Lea Cline Lanier
Happy birthday to my sister whose birthday is the same day as mine! She is still two years older then I am!
—David Cline

To: Jack Pearson
"You're the best friend I ever had", too. "Thank you for loving me!"
—Nancy Pearson

To: Michael McCabe
Hello from the other end of the couch... Joining you soon!!
—Cheryl Rice

To: Daniel Longyne
Dad, Happy Birthday all the way from England! Sorry I can't be there, but I still haven't found a husband, so I'm stuck here! Love to you and mom!
—Cindy Longyne

To: Tim Russell
Just add me to the many who wish the man a speedy recovery. He is much missed.
—Morry Jaffe

To: Sarah Kinzer
Looking forward to September, and the journey we will take till the birth of our first child. You are going to be a wonderful mother!
—Brett Kinzer

To: Deanna and Jesse Petersen
Congratulations on your New Baby Boy Braiden Petersen born on Jan. 27, 2009 in Boulder Colorado. Welcome to the family Braiden, we love you all.
—Sharon Carlson

To: Randall Carlson
Happy Birthday to U.S.Navy Corpsman Randall Carlson who is 26 on Feb.16th this year and is deployed in Iraq with the U.S.Marines. We all love you and miss you Randall.
—Sharon Carlson

To: Tim Russell
I hope you are well and returning to the show soon, when I then hope Garrison will have a sketch to dramatize how your accident happened. We bet it was a good time for Rhubarb Pie!
—Martin Fass

To: Doug McMurry
Happy 65th Birthday to my wonderful husband. After 20 years listening to Prairie Home Companion on the radio you're finally in the audience!
—Julie McMurry

To: Becky Katz Silverman
Greetings from sunny warm Florida. Hope you're enjoying the clean northern air.
—Hannah Hostyk

To: Tim Russell
Here's hoping your ankle heals quickly and becomes strong. I know what it's like; mine broke in November, and this is the last month I'm casted. Good luck!
—Becky Maatman