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The history of lake wobegon, minnesota, population 942, is interwoven with presentday events, the narrators childhood and adolescence, and his musings on the significance of being a wobegonian. Lake wobegon days by keillor, garrison and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Paired essays on towns and change lake wobegon days. Download lake wobegon days is about the way our beliefs, desires and fears tail off into abstractionsand get renewed from time to time. The lake wobegon trail was once an abandoned railroad corridor. Keillor did a great job of bringing me into the townthat i wish was my hometown, and watching the antics of the residents. Lake wobegon is full of hardstock people of norwegian and german descent, brimming with endearing quirkiness. Garrison keillor is the consummate storyteller, gifted with the rare abilityboth in print and in performanceto hold an audience spellbound with his tales of ordinary people whose lives contain extraordinary moments of humor, tenderness, and grace.
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Promote and enhance the trail and the communities and businesses on the trail. Keillor chronicles a series of panicky anticlimaxes thwarted hairpin turns in the pioneer movement west. It is funded by donations and proceeds from three annual cycling events. Keillor is the host of the popular a prairie home companion radio show.