cb@hlwpc.UUCP (Carl Blesch) (04/29/85)
On Saturday, April 27, as part of its fund raising night, WNYC ran a special program called "Westminster Town Meeting," featuring Garrison Keillor as guest speaker. After doing a monologue, Keillor entertained questions from the audience, and one of these really got to me -- the Q&A follows: ***** Questioner: To what do you attribute the widespread national appeal of the rural focus on A Prairie Home Companion? Keillor: Well, there are Minnesota exiles all over the country. We're a major exporter of people here in the midwest. Some of them may be listening right now, and . . . I hope you're happy where you are. We kinda could use you around here, but I guess that's your own business. No, I think they tune in out of guilt, I think probably every week, so they can claim not to have completely abandoned the midwest. ***** Posted by a Wisconsin (that's next to Minnesota!) native who's been living in New Jersey and Illinois for the past nine years, and is somewhat happy where he is, but tunes in every week out of guilt . . . Carl Blesch "You can take the Badger out of Wisconsin, but you can't take Wisconsin out of the Badger."