APM: A Prairie Home Companion's News from Lake Wobegon
Monologues about folks in Lake Wobegon
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October 22, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon
The world has taken a turn towards the cold. The ...
The world has taken a turn towards the cold. The sun comes out but it's not warm anymore -- we've taken the big turn towards fall. People are wearing hats in Lake Wobegon. People are turning on their furnaces.
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October 15, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon
This was the week that the chill moved in and ...
This was the week that the chill moved in and the big full moon up there Tuesday night. And then on Wednesday a big rain came pouring down and the wind blew and so a lot of the leaves came down. That red maple tree out in the front yard of the Lutheran Parsonage just almost was stripped of leaves.
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October 8, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon
It's been warm out there this week -- been up ...
It's been warm out there this week -- been up in the 80s, unusual for October. The trees are at their peak and everybody should've been happy. Of course, the old complainers who sit and nurse their coffee in the Chatterbox Cafe found a way to complain about it after all.
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October 1, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon
It's been cloudy. It's been chilly out there. The sun ...
It's been cloudy. It's been chilly out there. The sun has come out now and then. And then on Thursday this powerful wind came up -- it was very dramatic. Some people lost phone service and weren't even aware of it at the time and leaves blew off some of the trees completely.
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September 24, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon
It's the week of the fall equinox, when we turn ...
It's the week of the fall equinox, when we turn towards the darkness -- and we have this week. It's been chilly, it's been cloudy, and the sun -- less of it. The sun going down, people eating dinner by lamplight again and all sorts of odd things happening when the darkness comes on us.
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September 17, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon
It's the beginning of fall. It's been cool -- good ...
It's the beginning of fall. It's been cool -- good sleeping weather when people crawl into bed at night. It's warm under the extra blanket if you're sleeping with somebody else and you tuck yourself into your little envelope on these cool fall nights.
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September 10, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon
For a while I grew up the son of a ...
For a while I grew up the son of a Swedish sharecropper in North Dakota and I got on a toboggan in January and there was a prevailing wind out of the northwest which blew me down to Minneapolis and it just seemed like too much effort to go back. And they didn't seem as if they would miss me anyway so I stayed here.
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September 3, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon
Fall is in the air. The last of the gardens ...
Fall is in the air. The last of the gardens being brought in--bumper crops of tomatoes. Irene Bunsen had the great satisfaction this week of walking out of her back gate, out of her garden, and across the alley, and down the way, and into the back gate of her brother-in-law Clarence Bunsen.
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August 27, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon
It's gotten very cold there this last week. The temperature's ...
It's gotten very cold there this last week. The temperature's been highs in the 20s. Cold, bitterly cold weather. It's the kind of weather we're used to. The Northern Lights have been so beautiful--these tongues of green, tips of orange at night.
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August 20, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon
We've had snow out there. We had about a foot ...
We've had snow out there. We had about a foot and a half of snow here this last week, which just sort of killed some people who are just tired of winter. But it snowed anyway, despite their objections.
