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.

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 )

* 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

As these Swiss were moving from the Selkirk settlement to become the first civilian residents of Minnesota, Dousman of Michilimackinac, Michigan, and Prairie Du Chien was traveling to Red River to open a trade in merchandise.

Alberta was once the smallest of the three Prairie Provinces by population in the early 20th century, but by 2009, Alberta's population was 3, 632, 483 or approximately three times as much as either Saskatchewan ( 1, 023, 810 ) or Manitoba ( 1, 213, 815 ).

Chicago gave its name to the Chicago School and was home to the Prairie School, movements in architecture.

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.

After U. S. ownership of the region was confirmed in the Treaty of Ghent ( 1814 ), the U. S. built or expanded forts along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, including adding to Fort Bellefontaine, and constructing Fort Armstrong ( 1816 ) and Fort Edwards ( 1816 ) in Illinois, Fort Crawford ( 1816 ) in Prairie du Chien Wisconsin, Fort Snelling ( 1819 ) in Minnesota, and Fort Atkinson ( 1819 ) in Nebraska.

Like other architects who viewed the Wasmuth Portfolio and its associated exhibit, Mies was enthralled with the free-flowing spaces of inter-connected rooms which encompass their outdoor surroundings as demonstrated by the open floor plans of the American Prairie Style work of Frank Lloyd Wright.

He won a football scholarship to Prairie View A & M University, where he majored in mathematics, but was expelled after his first year.

One of these was the Prairie Network, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory from 1963 to 1975 in the midwestern US.

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.

On November 28, 2007, Corel announced that the office in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, where Paint Shop Pro was created, would be shut down, with development moving to offices in California and China.

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

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.

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.

Louis Henry Sullivan ( September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924 ) was an American architect, and has been called the " father of skyscrapers " and " father of modernism " He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.

Louis Sullivan was highly influential amongst Prairie School architects and Griffin was a great admirer of his work, and also of his philosophy of architecture which stressed that design should be free of historical precedent.

In 1867 part of the Kansas group negotiated the Treaty of Washington with the Potawatomi in which the Kansas Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation split and part of their Kansas land was sold, purchasing land near present-day Shawnee, Oklahoma, becoming the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.