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Garrison Keillor's CHEERFULNESS. THE REVIEWS ARE IN! "Humorist and author Keillor (Serenity at 70, Gaiety at 80) delves into the different faces of positivity and “the great American virtue” of cheerfulness in this playful and resolutely upbeat offering.Dead-serious themes of aging and death pop up throughout, but Keillor plumbs them for humor and insight in his customary style, an Garrison Keillor – Valentine’s Day 1989 — New York Times Op Ed Page All lovers are secret lovers. They require vast privacy because their passion, so gorgeous and thrilling to each other, is incomprehensible to everyone else, a joke, even to their own children. This week, we revisit a Valentine’s Day show from the Fitzgerald Theater, with Mason Jennings and Becky Schlegel. Peter Ostroushko and Dan Newton join the Shoe Band, and Lynn Peterson joins Garrison for a couple of love song duets. Plus, comedian Isaac Witty. Listen to the show. MASON JENNINGS was born in Pittsburgh to a music-loving family A Valentines Day Collective Wedding Experience. When: 4:30-7:30 p.m. Where: Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, 78 E. Granada Blvd., Ormond Beach. Details: OMAM is offering a wedding experience for couples tying the knot or renewing their vows. It's "Welcome Home" time for two familiar PBS personalities this week as "Mystery!" begins a series of eight new "Poirot" mysteries, at 9 tonight, and Garrison Keillor returns to Lake Wobegon for a new special, "Hello Love" at 10 p.m. tomorrow, both on KCTS-TV. A three-day anniversary event kicked off Friday at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, where Garrison Keillor first broadcast "A Prairie Home Companion" on July 6, 1974. Back then, there were America’s foremost humorist and social pundit, Garrison Keillor takes his skits and monologues across the country in his popular radio show, A Prairie Home Companion.American Masters trails this Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (/ ˈ k iː l ər /; born August 7, 1942) is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion (called Garrison Keillor's Radio Show in some international syndication), which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Garrison Keillor is an author, humorist, storyteller and icon of public broadcasting whose weekly radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, has been a part of our lives, in one form or another, since Manchester, NH (03108-9555) Today. Clear to partly cloudy. Low 16F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph.. Most aphorisms are self-evident, such as “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” and the one about glass houses and throwing stones and the mice playing when the cat is away and “As you sow, so shall you harvest” and as I get older, the ones about living in the moment and seizing the day and not crying over spilt milk feel very profound. I remember a day fifty years ago when I For the first time in living memory, I was the only passenger in a TSA security line at a major airport — Tucson, noon on a Friday, a time you’d expect Arizonans to be heading for Nome or Juneau for a weekend of darkness, but no. I wended back and forth in the maze of barriers and the guy at the conveyor seemed happy to see me. I zipped on through and counted 15 uniformed men and women Garrison Keillor's CHEERFULNESS. THE REVIEWS ARE IN! "Humorist and author Keillor (Serenity at 70, Gaiety at 80) delves into the different faces of positivity and “the great American virtue” of cheerfulness in this playful and resolutely upbeat offering.Dead-serious themes of aging and death pop up throughout, but Keillor plumbs them for humor and insight in his customary style, an It's the birthday of Dylan Thomas, born in Swansea, Wales (1914). His father was a failed poet who worked as a schoolmaster, and Dylan grew up terrified of his violent mood swings. The only time he seemed to calm down, and the only time Thomas enjoyed his company, was when he was reading Shakespeare aloud. After graduation, Thomas got a job at a newspaper, but he was an awful reporter. Keillor wrote about sports for the local paper at age 13, attended the University of Minnesota – then going by the name, "Garrison," and spent time in New York as a young writer. In 1969 he took It's the birthday of writer George Saunders, born in Amarillo, Texas (1958), the author of the books CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996), Pastoralia (2000), and In Persuasion Nation (2006). He contributes to magazines like The New Yorker, GQ,and McSweeney's, and has won the National Magazine Award for fiction four times in the past 16 years. Memories from Staff and Performers BILL KLING, PRESIDENT EMERITUS OF MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AND AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA The beginnings of a “live” Keillor show occurred at 6:30 a.m. one weekday in the early 1970s, broadcast on classical music station KSJN. I remember waking up to somebody singing “Old Shep,” followed by the ear-piercing sound of a “glass [] Living in the present, a day at a time Most aphorisms are self-evident, such as “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” and the one about glass houses and throwing stones and the mice playing when the cat is away and “As you sow, so shall you harvest” and as I get older, the ones about living in the moment and seizing the day and not crying over spilt milk feel very profound. Garrison Keillor's CHEERFULNESS. THE REVIEWS ARE IN! "Humorist and author Keillor (Serenity at 70, Gaiety at 80) delves into the different faces of positivity and “the great American virtue” of cheerfulness in this playful and resolutely upbeat offering.Dead-serious themes of aging and death pop up throughout, but Keillor plumbs them for humor and insight in his customary style, an On this day in 1980, the NASA space probe Voyager 1 made its closest approach to Saturn. Of course, "close" is a relative term; in this case, the spacecraft was 40,000 miles from the top of the gas giant's cloud layer. But it gave scientists their best opportunity to study the planet's most famous feature: its spectacular rings.
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