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A few highlights from this weekend’s season opener and street dance, with music by RIch Dworsky and the Shoe Band (“Tennessee Tumble”)
[More videos from the September 15, 2012 broadcast, including Pat Donohue’s ode to “Meat Loaf,” Ira Glass in “Guy Noir,” and “Café Boeuf”]
The News from Lake Wobegon for August 4, 2012
It’s been warm out there—what we call warm. It’s been in the 90s. It’s been good tomato-growing weather.
Irene Bunsen grows a crop of unique tomato plants and a potential buyer bartends at the Sidetrack Tap to get a feel for the place, allowing Wally to enjoy some time on his pontoon boat, in a monologue from 1999.
The News from Lake Wobegon for July 28, 2012
It’s been warm out there this week. Been up in the 80s—unusual for October. The trees are at their peak and everybody should’ve been happy.
Clint Bunsen endures a talkative duck hunting companion, the Lake Wobegon High School football team faces a feared rival, and Pastor Liz chooses between three very different sermon topics, in a monologue from October 2011.
“The Parting Glass”
Fresh Air’s very above-average online wrangler Mel Kramer is heading off for new adventures, so here’s a toast to all her great work inspiring us other public radio people here on the ‘webz. Good luck, Mel!
"Out of curiousity but not nosy-ness..."
We recently inquired here about what you’re doing while you listen to the show, and that question just popped up again on Mrs. Sundberg’s Facebook page. Head over there to join the discussion!
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.
“Super Mario Bros. Theme” — Portland Cello Project
Koji Kondo’s iconic theme… played by six cellos.
[From the 6/16 broadcast in Eugene, Oregon]
The News from Lake Wobegon for June 9, 2012
It’s been warm there — what we would consider warm. It’s been up in the 80s and it’s been kind of rough on these Scandinavians.
The high school graduation ceremony moves out of the air-conditioning-less gymnasium, the students are disappointed by the transit of Venus, Hannah Rasmussen overuses a metaphor in her valedictorian speech, and the Mueller children return to Lake Wobegon for their mother’s funeral.
We're gonna miss those Car Talk fellas!
They’ve made their way into a few APHC scripts over the years, including a brief look at pledge week from 2010 and as part of a sinister kidnapping plot in the May 12th edition of Guy Noir.
The News from Lake Wobegon for June 2, 2012
It’s been beautiful. It’s been dry. It’s been in the 70s, a little breeze coming in, very low humidity.
The class of 1962 returns for a reunion, the class of 2012 plans their senior prank, the story of an epic food fight, a tent caterpillar infestation hits Lake Wobegon, and Corrine Tollerud discusses Kierkegaard and Christianity with Pastor Liz.
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