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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, Minnesota, which Keillor said is "most Wobegonic", is on Stearns County's Lake Wobegon Regional Trail and advertises itself as the "Gateway to Lake Wobegon", even hosting a "Lake Wobegon Cafe." Lake Wobegon was called "the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve." The first item of news is a recounting of the weather and its effects on the Lake Wobegon residents. From there, details about what the residents have been doing are provided. For events and conversations that Garrison was not directly a witness for, he stated "I have my sources".
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The authors of a study suggest that what they consider the “Lake Wobegon effect” can in some cases negatively affect doctors' treatment advice when, in planning treatment, doctors portray the patients as “above average”. For more than 35 years, as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of listeners with his weekly News from Lake Wobegon monologues. A Prairie Home Companion is heard on hundreds of public radio stations, as well as America One, the Armed Forces Networks, Sirius Satellite Radio, and via a live audio webcast.
So he began to say it was in "central Minnesota, near Stearns County, up around Holdingford, not far from St. Rosa and Albany and Freeport, northwest of St. Cloud", which he says is "sort of the truth, I guess." Add a library card to your account to borrow titles, place holds, and add titles to your wish list. Keillor often refers to a cafe in downtown Lake Wobegon called the "Chatterbox Cafe". There was a real cafe and gas station in Olivia by that name, but it is now closed and abandoned, with nothing remaining to identify it but one sign.
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In Season 7, episode 7, of The Office ("The Christening") Erin Hannon tunes into A Prairie Home Companion on the car radio when picking up Michael Scott, Andy Bernard and a church kid from the side of the road. Some say that Lake Wobegon is intended to be near Holdingford, Minnesota. This whimsical sign is located at the Holdingford trailhead. LivestreamHigh-performing audio live, without limits.
Many haven't been heard since about 1987 thus this collection can be treated as a new Lake Wobegon story collection. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities. When not touring, he resides in St. Paul, Minnesota. Keillor has said that people often ask him if it is a real town, and when he replied that it was not, they seemed disappointed because "people want stories to be true".
A Prairie Home Companion: News from Lake Wobegon
Lake Wobegon is a fictional town created by Garrison Keillor as the setting of the recurring segment "News from Lake Wobegon" for the radio program A Prairie Home Companion broadcast from St Paul, Minnesota. The fictional town serves as the setting for many of Keillor's stories and novels, gaining an international audience with Lake Wobegon Days in 1985. Described as a small rural town in central Minnesota, the events and adventures of the townspeople provided Keillor with a wealth of humorous and often touching stories. WhenA Prairie Home Companionwent national in 1980, Garrison Keillor started turning his vignettes, updates, and letters from Lake Wobegon into a full-fledged story each week. Stearns County was predominantly German and Catholic in the 1970s, and the second-most Catholic county in the US .
The nearest good-sized town referred to in Keillor's monologues is St. Cloud. Lake Wobegon is sometimes compared favorably to a rival fictional town called Millet; a real town called Rice lies 20 miles north of St. Cloud. The Lake Wobegon effect, a natural human tendency to overestimate one's capabilities, was named in honor of the fictional town. The characterization that "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average" has been used to describe a real and pervasive human tendency to overestimate one's achievements and capabilities in relation to others. To support the view that people in general need to believe that they are above average one author points out that in a survey of high school students, only 2% of the students reported that they were below average in leadership ability.
To balance the religious and ethnic demography of Stearns County with the rest of Minnesota, Keillor "imported" Lutheran and Scandinavian elements into the town, making it more recognizable and therefore more interesting to the rest of the state. Cleared payment cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab. HighBridge Audio is a division of Recorded Books, Inc. Publisher of unabridged audiobooks , including public radio favorites Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, Car Talk, and NPR Driveway Moments. Lake Wobegon is the county seat of Mist County, Minnesota, located near the geographic center of Minnesota, on a lake of the same name. Unfortunately, due to the incompetence of surveyors who mapped out the state in the 19th century, the town does not generally appear on published maps.
It has been described by Garrison Keillor as a place "Where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and all the children are above average." Its city motto is "Sumus Quot Sumus" ("We are what we are"). The "News From Lake Wobegon" is a report by Garrison Keillor of the recent events taking place in Lake Wobegon during the week. It was included in the second half of each A Prairie Home Companion radio show Garrison created and is typically preceded by announcing, "It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, my hometown, out on the edge of the prairie", sometimes with "my hometown" being said at the end. The 1993 The Simpsons episode Marge on the Lam opens with the Simpson family watching public television; a Keilloresque host delivers a monologue about Badger Falls with the closing words, "Where the men are pink-cheeked, the women are robust, and the children are pink-cheeked and robust." Keillor chronicles a number of bizarre incidents in the fictional town's early history, akin to the events in Black River Falls in Wisconsin Death Trip. These stories will enchant you today as much as they did four decades ago.
The Minnesota Rails and Trails project began creating the Lake Wobegon Trail in 1998. It now stretches from Waite Park, Minnesota just west of St. Cloud, to Freeport, Minnesota, where it forks; one trail heads northwest to Osakis, Minnesota, the other northeast to Holdingford, Minnesota and Bowlus, Minnesota, and on across the Mississippi River. Keillor participated in the trail opening ceremonies and said that Holdingford was the most "Wobegonic" town in his mind. The Lake Wobegon Trail Marathon takes place every year in May on the trail. Runners leave from Holdingford and run to St. Joseph, Minnesota.
If you receive an error message, please contact your library for help. Please sign in again so you can continue to borrow titles and access your Loans, Wish list, and Holds pages. In the 1984 Garfield animated TV special "Garfield in the Rough", Garfield, Jon, and Odie hear a radio news bulletin about a panther that has escaped from a local zoo earlier that morning and been reported in the "Lake Wobegon area".
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The report usually concludes with, "And that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good looking, and the children are above average." Will usually ship within 1 business day of receiving cleared payment. Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the fall season.
Estimated delivery dates - opens in a new window or tab include seller's handling time, origin ZIP Code, destination ZIP Code and time of acceptance and will depend on shipping service selected and receipt of cleared payment. Delivery times may vary, especially during peak periods. Lake Wobegon is occasionally said to be near St. Olaf, Minnesota, another fictional town referred to in The Golden Girls television series. (There is actually a St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.) The town's school and amateur sports teams compete against the Uff-das of Upsala, a real town in southwest Morrison County, which is close to Holdingford. The town residents drink Wendy's Beer, brewed in St. Wendel, a real town in northeast Stearns County.
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