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Good chilly morning from Collegeville,

The onboard temp showed 2 degrees as I drove by the frozen lake this morning. Yuk!!! APMG/MPR does have public radio stations in both Florida and California. But, my children and grandchildren are here in Minnesota. All of this because my mother’s grandmother Anne Oien bought the story that Fredrick Anderson, a farmer near Cushing, Minnesota, told her in a letter that he wrote to her in Folldal, Norway. Anne and her sister took a steamer to New York City and then they boarded a train which took them to Chicago. There they transferred to a north bound train which arrived in Minneapolis. The Anderson brothers, a couple of Norwegian bachelor farmers, met them at the train station and before they could get back on the train to head south, they whisked them off to a justice of the peace. Oh, that they would have boarded the wrong train in Chicago and landed in Kentucky instead. I could have been a racing horse trainer or a bourbon whiskey taster.

The APHC show this week is at the other end of Minnesota. The show will be performed at the Mayo Civic Center Taylor Arena in Rochester. Special guests include the spirited bluegrass quintet Steep Canyon Rangers, Rochester’s own Choral Arts Ensemble, pianist Jane Belau and the APHC staff blues singer Hilary Thavis. (named after Father Hilary who offices next to me on the third floor of Wimmer Hall.) Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and Fred Newman will join Garrison in a variety of skits. The newly named November Boys Orchestra will fill the bill. The News From Lake Wobegon will weave stories of life in a small town near Upsala.

“I have never seen a man who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom he is working.” Charles M. Schwab