Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left home long before, choking on prudence and rectitude, clawing at his collar for air. Exile was the bittersweet point of those fond and misty monologues about Lake Wobegon, the tiny, imaginary Minnesota town "that time forgot, that the decades cannot improve." The wry truth was that Garrison Keillor, celebrated shy person, uncorkable parlor baritone, world's tallest radio humorist, could abide the rural Midwest only in memory. Much of his audience had made the same journey, or nearly, and we loved to be persuaded, as we listened on public radio each Saturday to the extraordinary two-hour variety show...
Lake Wobegone Chronicler Garrison Keillor at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pa.: Being a parent is not something that people ever feel confident or secure about. When you were tiny children, we started to read about tremendous advances in prenatal education. And when you got a little bit older, we started reading great books about early childhood and fantastic things that parents can do. We've always been a step behind in bringing you up . . . We wanted to bring you up with information about sex that we never had. Our parents only told us that if we listened to rock 'n' roll...
STAFF WRITERS: Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Lloyd Garrison, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., Michael D. Lemonick, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Wayne Svoboda, Susan Tifft, Amy Wilentz...
STAFF WRITERS: Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Lloyd Garrison, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., Michael D. Lemonick, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Wayne Svoboda, Susan Tifft, Amy Wilentz...
STAFF WRITERS: Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Lloyd Garrison, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., Michael D. Lemonick, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Wayne Svoboda, Susan Tifft, Amy Wilentz...