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 )

* A Prairie Home Companion: English Majors: A Comedy Collection for the Highly Literate CD ( 2008, HighBridge Company )

* Home on the Prairie ( July 2003 )

At the site of what was originally the Johann D. C. Thiessen mansion and ranch, now Locomotive Park, so named because of the retired locomotive Steam Engine 92 and Camas Prairie RR Caboose on display in the middle, large trees and pathways are decorated with lights from Thanksgiving to New Year's.

In the 1990s, the statue was reinstalled near 18th Street and Prairie Avenue, close to its original site, at the time of the revival of the Prairie Avenue Historic District.

The site of the Civil War battle at Prairie Grove is now a Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park | state park.

This show, along with another on which Raitt with her band in October 2006, is archived on the Prairie Home Companion web site.

Prairie Grove was the site of the Battle of Prairie Grove during the American Civil War.

Since 1837, MacGregor had been operating a ferry across the Mississippi River between Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin and the present site of McGregor, Iowa.

The village is the site of the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as " Wolf's Prairie " in reference to the 1, 000-acre prairie in which it was situated.

Prairie Ronde Township has one site listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1855, J. J. Brackett, a Saint Paul lumber baron and mail carrier using the road, decided to plat a site halfway between St. Paul and St. Peter on a lake he named Prairie Lake.

* Long Prairie -- Visitor Information site

* Long Prairie / Grey Eagle Schools site

* Just north of the Hitching Post Motel was the site of a Minnesota Highway Department historic marker which had this inscription: " Through this point from southeast to northwest extended the Indian Boundary as defined by the Prairie du Chien Treaty of 1825 as surveyed and marked by the government.

Indian Henry was one of those who, in 1889, guided the town's founder, Thomas C. Van Eaton, from Mashell Prairie to the present site of Eatonville.

At the dawn of the 20th Century, Pleasant Prairie with its then-700 residents was the site of a 190-acre Dupont de Nemours blasting-powder plant of forty buildings that had an ongoing record of explosions.

Today the site is the location of many residential homes and the Pleasant Prairie Ball Park where many children play recreational softball and soccer.

As a result, he decided to establish a trading post upriver at the then still unsettled site of Prairie La Crosse.

This way headed north from the lake at the site of Fort William, Ontario up the Kaministiquia and Dog Rivers to Cold Water Lake, crossed the divide by Prairie Portage to Height of Land Lake, then went west by way of the Savanne, Pickerel, and Maligne Rivers to Lake La Croix where it joined the present border.

* Little House on the Prairie original site near Independence, Kansas

The US was slow to present any authority over Prairie du Chien, but late in the War of 1812 when the government realized the importance of holding the site to prevent British attacks from Canada, it began construction of Fort Shelby in 1814.

The fort was the site of the negotiations and signing of the Treaty of Prairie du Chien ( 1825 and 1829 ), by which the Fox and Sauk ceded much of their land to the US.

* University of Nebraska site on Nine Mile Prairie