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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wasn't a difficult choice for Coach Dave Peterson to pick Bourbeau, either. Bourbeau had to skip the Olympic Festival, the team's offcial tryout camp, last summer because of an injured shoulder. But, as he had been promised, Bourbeau was granted a private tryout the following week in Lake Placid, and Peterson quickly added the Falmouth native to his roster...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Making the Right Moves | 10/29/1987 | See Source »

Garrison Keillor' s Leaving Home yields humble epiphanies from Lake Wobegon. -- Why an anthropologist died in Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...glad to know that it has been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, even though quite a few copies of Leaving Home are circulating there. Mavis and I drove up last weekend to see how her Mom's doing after the gallbladder operation. Most everybody was talking about your book (except the Norwegian bachelor farmers, who were not to be diverted from their predictions of a dire winter to come). They had all heard these stories when you told them on A Prairie Home Companion. But radio evanesces. Print is history. It's like going to church: you worry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just A Few Minutes of Bliss LEAVING HOME | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...state is coming out in more numbers than when Garrison Keeler performed the last live Lake Wobegon Show. Fifty thousand fans packed the Twins' welcome home party, with thousands waiting outside. This Saturday Twin City phone lines went dead when thousands of calls flooded in for a sale on tickets to the sixth and seventh games...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Proud to be a Minnesotan, Again | 10/21/1987 | See Source »

Sprints: events held each spring to determine Eastern champions. The men's sprints are held on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcestor in May to determine the Eastern lightweight and heavyweight championship crews. The women's sprints are a week later on Lake Waramaug in New Preston, Conn. The most important regular event on the crew calendar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Primer: Head of the Charles from A to Z | 10/17/1987 | See Source »

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