A Prairie Home Companion

The News from Lake Wobegon for June 23, 2012

A lot of heat at the beginning of the week and storms — sheets of rain coming down — it was a beautiful, beautiful thing.

Lake Wobegon celebrates Father’s Day, Lake Wobegon Lutheran church celebrates the baptism of Roger Hedlund’s granddaughter, and the sounds of the town interrupt the Sunday service.

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The News from Lake Wobegon for June 16, 2012

It was very brutally, brutally hot here this last week and the deerflies came in, which is a form of plague.

Powerful storms roll into Lake Wobegon, Luanne Peterson copes with the arrival of a new patient in the pediatric intensive care unit, and a story to comfort Luanne when she breaks down under an overpass during the storm.

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