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Article: Lake Wobegone Adieu; The Man Who Put the Heart Back in the Heartland
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- The Washington Post
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- May 31, 1987
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IT USED to be said that American humorists, along with other
creative people, were engaged in a lifelong "revolt against the
village," and particularly a revolt against the midwestern village,
and even more particularly a revolt against the churchy, Protestant,
Boy Scout, front-porch, Bible school and family dinner-table aspects
of the midwestern village. But when you encounter Garrison Keillor,
you think humorists may have changed.
After June 13, you won't any longer encounter Keillor on public
radio; he is bringing his "Prairie Home Companion" to a halt, after
almost 13 years of news from Lake Wobegon, to resume being a shy
person. But presumably he will continue, out of the depths of ...