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.

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 )

* 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

For many years the Northwest Company had its southern headquarters at Prairie Du Chien on the Mississippi River, some 300 miles southeast of present-day St. Paul, Minnesota.

In September 1817 at Fort Daer ( Pembina ) Dickson met the noble lord whom, with the help of a band of Sioux, he escorted to Prairie Du Chien.

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.

Hercules L. Dousman, fur trader and merchant at Prairie Du Chien, contracted to supply Selkirk's people with some 300 head of cattle, and Alexis Bailly and Francois Labothe were hired as drovers.

They would attempt to bring supplies from St. Louis or Prairie Du Chien at `` great expense as well as danger ''.

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.

Yarn drying after being dyed in the early American tradition, at Conner Prairie living history museum.

On September 20, 1805, near the western end of the Lolo Trail, he found a small camp at the edge of the camas-digging ground that is now called Weippe Prairie.

The current tribal lands consist of a reservation at, comprising parts of four counties in northern Idaho, primarily in the Camas Prairie region.

Prairie dogs at a burrow entrance

Prairie dogs live mainly at altitudes ranging from 2, 000 to 10, 000 ft above sea level.

Prairie dogs that were in captivity at the time of the ban in 2003 were allowed to be kept under a grandfather clause, but were not to be bought, traded, or sold, and transport was permitted only to and from a veterinarian under quarantine procedures.

Unfired " green ware " pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum

The featured performance was culled from a concert filmed at the Nokia Theater in Grand Prairie, Texas on November 1, 2007.

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.

From there it went southwest to Camas Prairie and ended at Old Fort Boise on the Boise River.

Some subspecies, such at Attwater's Prairie Chicken and the Cantabrian Capercaillie, and some national and regional populations are also in danger.

Spinning wool on a great wheel at a demonstration in the Conner Prairie living history museum loom house

" The campus was landscaped by van der Rohe's close colleague at IIT, Alfred Caldwell, " the last representative of the Prairie School of landscape architects.

* The Hitch-Hiker at Prairie Ghosts

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.