Velma Frye, Garrison Keillor, Tom Keith, Leo Kottke, Yale Russian Chorus.
Endearing young charms ( Garrison Keillor , Velma Frye ) Waltzing Godzilla ( Garrison Keillor , Yale Russian Chorus ) Little beaver ( Leo Kottke ) Kalinka (Yale Russian Chorus ) Saginaw, Michigan ( Leo Kottke )
Powdermilk Biscuits
The Boosters Club has a new motto, 'Onward Ever Higher.' Ralph has hung signs in the aisles. Darlene has left LW. At 5:00 pm on Christmas Eve, she left the Chatterbox and drove to Minneapolis to get a job and find her husband Arlen to divorce him. Senator K tried to persuade Darlene that maybe he was her destiny. He is reading a boxful of cheap trashy novels by Ramona Jean Jensen and it's affecting him. You pick one up in Ralph's and read a few pages and your ice cream melts. Next thing you know it's page 41. Ralph comes along and offers to put your meat in the cooler. Senator K sits in the Chatterbox and Darlene sensuously pours his coffee. He asks Darlene to go Florida with him. Darlene asks Senator K about his lady love in Maine. She has a new boy friend, Paul, and it looks as if their love affair is on the rocks. Pastor Inqvuist and his wife Judy have their reservations for the ministerial conference. They have missed the trip to Florida for the last three years. She dreams of lying around the pool and smoking one of the eight cigarettes that she will have this year. She doesn't have anybody in town since Chuck and Kate left town. At LW, she sits in the third row at the church and listens to David's sermon with a modest adoring look. He quotes her modest pious sayings incorrectly. Chuck and Kate were school teachers who told things like they really were. Soon nobody visited them. Kate opened a photo-developing business in her own home but nobody came. She finally got a job driving a school bus for $4.00 an hour. One day, she ran the school bus ran into the ditch. Kate left in the middle of the night and took the worst car. Reverend Bob, David's replacement, is a plodder. The story of the bell in the belfry. One day some Catholic boys took a Holstein in the belfry. It wouldn't come down. They hired a crane to lift the cow down and bought the bell because the crane was there already
Hazards of butane lighters. Garrison we only have 13 years left to get to the year 2000 and there are a lot predictions that need to be fulfilled in a short time. 10 Poems by Theodore Roethke read by Garrison and Leo Kottke.
Star Tribune Jan 4 1987 Star Tribune Sun Jan 4 1987
1987.01.03 Wisconsin State Journal
Archival contributors: Frank Berto, Ken Kuhl