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There is a bitter quality to some of his recollections of Lake Wobegon, only partly softened by humor. In his book he claims that an angry son returned to the town intending to nail 95 complaints about his repressive parents to the door of the Lutheran church. The 34th of these accusations is that the parents made it impossible for him to accept a compliment. It is Keillor talking, no question. Someone says, "Good speech," and he mumbles, "Oh, it was way too long. I didn't know what I was talking about. I was just blathering." Actually, he confesses...
Part of him does want to say that. The rest of him knows he does, and knows also how to turn this unworthy greed into a story. But the stream that fills Lake Wobegon, in Mist County, on no map, in central Minnesota, flows from another source. A story told by a master about his long-gone childhood is a marvelous kind of time machine, and listeners really can learn how those folks talked who are vanished now, and what they wore, what they did when the great snowstorms came. Keillor knows that childhood is the small town everyone came...
ENGAGED. Garrison Keillor, 43, beguiling, bittersweet chronicler of U.S. small-town life on radio (A Prairie Home Companion) and in books (Happy to Be Here, Lake Wobegon Days) and Ulla Skaerved, a former exchange student at Keillor's Minnesota high school, who met him again when she returned in August for a 25th class reunion. The marriage, scheduled for Dec. 29 in Copenhagen, will be the second for both. Keillor had dedicated Lake Wobegon Days to Margaret Moos, his radio producer, with whom he shared a house in St. Paul; she has taken a leave from the show...
...family is scattered across the nation from Florida to California, but every Saturday we all get together in Lake Wobegon, Minn. Donna C. Noll Avon Park...
...Wobegon Tales...