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Table of Content Shipping and handling October 24, 2015 rebroadcast with Ellie Dehn, Kate Beahen, the Anoka High School Pep Band, and the Seventh Avenue Singers A Prairie Home Companion: News from Lake Wobegon The Lake Wobegon effect Although Lake Wobegon does not exist, Microsoft Virtual Earth now returns a location northeast of St. Cloud when it is entered into its search engine. The programs distributed at live performances of A Prairie Home Companion in 2005 had a map showing Lake Wobegon about two miles north of Holdingford, northwest of St. Cloud. The fictional settlement Lake Wobegon resembles many small farm towns in the Upper Midwest, especially western Minnesota, North Dakota, and to some extent, northern Iowa, Wisconsin, eastern South Dakota and northeastern Montana. These are rural, sparsely populated areas that were settled only in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, largely by homesteading immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia. One of these, Holdingford, Min...