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We have raided the vault and assembled the fourth chronological look at the origin stories of Lake Wobegon!When A Prairie Home Companion went national in 1980, Garrison Keillor started turning his vignettes, updates, and letters from Lake Wobegon into a full-fledged story each week. In this vintage collection, you can hear America’s favorite storyteller hone his craft in front of a live audience, regaling them with stories about what takes place in “the little town that time forgot and decades could not improve.”

These stories will enchant you today as much as they did four decades ago. Many haven't been heard since about 1987 thus this collection can be treated as a new Lake Wobegon story collection. It's time to return to your favorite small town.

From the Archives: The News from Lake Wobegon

The newest collection features the best monologues from 1983 and is the fourth in the 'From the Archives' series.
Behind the scenes of the 'From the Archives' series, the Prairie Home staff members sort through old recordings of "A Prairie Home Companion" broadcasts, thoughtfully cull the best monologues, browse contemporary photos and press clippings, and remaster the audio files to modern specifications. This volume includes some of the best Lake Wobegon stories from 1983. The residents complain about overly warm spring weather, the Lake Wobegon economy is running on loyalty, deism, and nepotism, and the juniors prepare the prom for the seniors--kind of like social security. Rumors go around about Ms. Berge's torrid romance, and the host muses that telling lies about people is better than ignoring them completely. Lyle desperately tries to avoid needing his brother-in-law Carl's help starting his car in winter, and the quiet people of Lake Wobegon show they're having a good time at Christmas by humming and perhaps tapping their feet a little bit. All in all, it's a collection of stories you will come to treasure.

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