In later years he even went back to radio, appearing on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion radio program, on American Public Media radio, even picking up a fiddle from time to time.

He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion ( also known as Garrison Keillor's Radio Show on United Kingdom's BBC Radio 4 Extra, as well as on RTÉ in Ireland, Australia's ABC, and Radio New Zealand National in New Zealand ).

A film version of Garrison Keillor's public radio series A Prairie Home Companion was released in June 2006.

Anderson had worked as a standby director on A Prairie Home Companion for insurance purposes, and in the event the ailing 80-year-old Altman was unable to finish shooting.

A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

* Prairie Home

A Prairie Home Companion is a live radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor.

A Prairie Home Companion is known for its musical guests, especially folk and traditional musicians, tongue-in-cheek radio drama, and Keillor's storytelling segment, " News from Lake Wobegon ".

It is produced by Prairie Home Productions and distributed by American Public Media, and is most often heard on public radio stations in the United States.

It was named after the Prairie Home Cemetery in Moorhead, Minnesota, next to Concordia College.

A Prairie Home Companion was originally a morning show running from 6 to 9 am on Minnesota Public Radio.

On July 6, 1974, the first live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion took place.

A Prairie Home Companion at the 2011 Minnesota State Fair

In the fall of 1992, Keillor returned to the World Theater with ARC for the majority of the season, and the next year, the program officially reverted to the A Prairie Home Companion name and format.

Each show opens with the Spencer Williams composition " Tishomingo Blues " as the theme song, but with lyrics written especially for A Prairie Home Companion.

The Rhubarb Sisters singing on A Prairie Home Companion.

In addition to Garrison Keillor, several other performers frequently appear on A Prairie Home Companion:

A Prairie Home Companion Production Staff:

Unlike A Prairie Home Companion, there are no station breaks.

* A Prairie Home Album ( Minnesota Educational Radio )

* Garrison Keillor's Comedy Theater: More Songs and Sketches from A Prairie Home Companion CD ( 1996, HighBridge Company )

* A Prairie Home Companion Anniversary Album: The First Five Years cassettes ( 1988, PHC, Inc .)

* Pretty Good Bits From a Prairie Home Companion ( 2003 )

* Home on the Prairie ( July 2003 )

* A Prairie Home Companion official website

* A Prairie Home Companion: A Brief History

* A Prairie Home Companion: Podcast

* A Prairie Home Companion via streaming audio

* A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor at the Hollywood Bowl

Shapiro edited the prestigious magazine, Poetry ( see Poetry Magazine ) for several years, and he was a professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where he edited Prairie Schooner, and at the University of California, Davis, from which he retired in the mid-1980s.

In the beginning of modern Quebec history, the territory of La Prairie would be visited on numerous occasions by Iroquois and English settlers from New York, among others at the time of the Anglo-Iroquois expedition of Pieter Schuyler in 1691, who commanded two battles on August 11, 1691.

* Prairie dogs videos ( in English )

Exceptions to this are WSRN's " Audience of Two ", Garrison Keillor's work on Minnesota Public Radio: A Prairie Home Companion and Comedy College, and NPR's Car Talk, a comedy show thinly disguised as car advice, and Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me !.

These include Becker, Carpoolers, Comedy Central Presents, Committed, Desperate Housewives, Dinner for Five, Father of the Pride, Grounded for Life, Hot Properties, I Love the ' 70s, I'm with Her, In Plain Sight, Jimmy Kimmel Live !, Joey, Just Shoot Me !, L. A. Blues, Las Vegas, Less Than Kind, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Lovespring International, MADtv, Mr. Show, Odd Job Jack, Saturday Night Live, Scrubs, Sketch Pad, South Park, Testing Bob, The King of Queens, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The New Adventures of Old Christine, The Prodigious Hickey, Stargate Atlantis, The Tick, Tom Goes to the Mayor, What's Up Peter Fuddy ?, What's New, Scooby-Doo ?, Brothers & Sisters, Will & Grace, Hot in Cleveland, True Jackson VP, Eureka and Leverage.

* Historic maps of East Prairie in the Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection at the University of Missouri

The Arboretum is a teaching and demonstration site, and features the David Nuland Ground Cover Collection, the Trails West Iris Collection, the Diana Harms cottonwood Collection, the Panhandle Prairie Transition site, and various tree and woody plant groves.

In 1819 grasshoppers again destroyed the crop at `` the Forks '' ( Fort Douglas ) and in December 1819, twenty men left Fort Daer for the most northerly American outpost at Prairie Du Chien.

In 1923, he purchased a small house at 7244 South Prairie Avenue in the Park Manor neighborhood on the city's south side for USD $ 5, 500.

Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed the concept of the Usonian home, his unique vision for urban planning in the United States.

Like the Great Garden, the Berggarten also consists of several parts, for example the Paradies and the Prairie Garden.

Peter Filder's map of 1819 has the name " Minetobaw Lake " marked for the lake north of Portage la Prairie.

Prairie dogs are named for their habitat and warning call, which sounds similar to a dog's bark.

Anderson is perhaps best known for her role as Mary Ingalls on the NBC television series Little House on the Prairie, as well as for her film roles ; as Vivian in Midnight Offerings, as Ginny in the cult classic slasher Happy Birthday to Me, and as Alex in the ABC Afterschool Special, Which Mother Is Mine ?, for which she won the Emmy Award in 1979.

She was nominated for a 1978 Primetime Emmy Award for Best Leading Actress in a Drama Series for her work on Little House on the Prairie and won the Emmy Award for her performance in Which Mother Is Mine ?, which aired as an ABC Afterschool Special in 1979.

The Sioux comprise three major divisions based on Siouan dialect and subculture: Isáŋyathi or Isáŋathi (" Knife ," originating from the name of a lake in present-day Minnesota ), residing in the extreme east of the Dakotas, Minnesota and northern Iowa, and are often referred to as the Santee or Eastern Dakota ; Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋ and Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna (" Village-at-the-end " and " little village-at-the-end "), residing in the Minnesota River area, they are considered to be the middle Sioux, and are often referred to as the Yankton and the Yanktonai, or, collectively, as the Wičhíyena ( endonym ) or the Western Dakota ( and have been erroneously classified as “ Nakota ”); Thítȟuŋwaŋ or Teton ( uncertain, perhaps " Dwellers on the Prairie "; this name is archaic among the natives, who prefer to call themselves Lakȟóta ), the westernmost Sioux, known for their hunting and warrior culture, are often referred to as the Lakota.

The Blue package contained leases on land-lines and on studio facilities in New York, Washington, D. C., Chicago and Los Angeles ; contracts with talent and with about sixty affiliates ; the trademark and " good will " associated with the Blue name ; and licenses for three stations ( WJZ in New York, San Francisco's KGO, and WENR in Chicago — really a half-station, since WENR shared time and a frequency with " Prairie Farmer " station WLS, with which it would later merge under full ABC ownership in 1954 ).

The Japanese also produced many vans based on the American flat nose model, but also mini-vans which for the American market have generally evolved to the long-wheelbase front wheel drive form factor first pioneered by the Nissan Prairie and Mitsubishi Chariot.

" Prairie is the French word for meadow, but the ultimate root is the Latin pratum ( same meaning ).

Hadfield underwent basic flight training for the Royal Canadian Air Force at CFB Portage La Prairie in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba for which he was named top pilot in 1980.