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Farewell, Youth and Beauty Melissa Christensen has been our whiz-kid logistician
and all-purpose producer, managing the large Miscellaneous drawer of the
show, working on the Webcast, travel, site research, etc. Melissa is leaving
us to move to Australia as soon as she gets her commercial pilot's license.
Someday you may be flying Qantas and hear a Midwestern voice from the
cockpit telling you about the flying time to Perth and that'll be our
Melissa at the controls. A smart, capable, confident person. Hillary Rhodes produced The Writers Almanac
and did research for PHC. She has gone off to Northwestern to get a master's
degree in journalism which she has decided is the field for her. You may
see her byline in a few years in the Washington Post, over a story
about malfeasance and skullduggery in high places, written with merciless
accuracy and utter clarity. Elena See was our producer in charge of scripts,
who also managed our Web sites and handled other business. She is off
to the University of Maine to go into a doctoral program and write a thesis
on Jane Austen. Someday your children will come home from college raving
about a course in 19th Century lit and their red-haired professor and
her passion for her field and that'll be Elena. We were lucky to claim a year or two of their youth
for our creaky old show and we're glad to send them off to exciting new
ventures. Youth is not supposed to get stuck in a job, youth is supposed
to bounce from one good spot to a better one and gad about and see the
world and gain new experiences, and these three young women are doing
that. They were terrific employees and we wish them all the very best
and we take vicarious pleasure in their freedom, we ink-stained wretches
slaving away in the galleys of radio, and we await news of their further
adventures. ~ Garrison Keillor |
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Singer and songwriter Andra Suchy talks about singing duets with Garrison, and her latest album, Little Heart.
Old Sweet Songs: A Prairie Home Companion 1974-1976
Lovingly selected from the earliest archives of A Prairie Home Companion, this heirloom collection represents the music from earliest years of the now legendary show: 1974–1976. With songs and tunes from jazz pianist Butch Thompson, mandolin maestro Peter Ostroushko, Dakota Dave Hull and the first house band, The Powdermilk Biscuit Band (Adam Granger, Bob Douglas and Mary DuShane).
