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Cook’s two ships returned to England sans Cook, and Ledyard went back to his garrison. Feeling trapped in the rigid military, Ledyard deserted when his unit was stationed in Long Island for the Revolution. “Bound by the conventional and the ordinary, he would revolt,” Zug writes. Having quickly spent his navy pay, the poor Ledyard wrote a popular memoir of his voyage with Cook in an effort to drum up support among potential donors for a fur-trading expedition. Ledyard stirred up an interested group, but corruption abounded and Ledyard...
Nowhere but on radio could this mix of fast-fact glibness and folksy sentiment be so engaging. While Garrison Keillor entertains listeners with tales of his mythical Minnesota town, residents of real Lake Wobegons and metropolises across the country are happily cuddling up with a new array of nationwide radio personalities. These voices from the darkness offer advice, information, news and chat with the sort of one-on-one intimacy that slick, impersonal television cannot approach. "Radio personalities are not stars but friends," says Sally Jessy Raphael, whose friends include nearly 2 million weekly listeners to her weeknight radio advice...
...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...
...Editors: Garrison Keillor [SHOW BUSINESS, Nov. 4] has made me laugh and my husband cry on Saturday nights. If Keillor wants to be named The Sun God or King of America or even Idol of Millions, give it to him. Janis M. Houston Brush, Colo...
Congratulations on recognizing Garrison Keillor, one of Minnesota's great natural resources. We are proud that the nation finds humor and solace in hearing about the down-home values embraced by the residents of Lake Wobegon. But those values exist in real life, in hundreds of small towns and dozens of large cities in Minnesota. We welcome the rest of the nation to our well-kept secret: Minnesota is a great place to live and work. Rudy Perpich Governor, Minnesota St. Paul...