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Lake Wobegon

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Lake Wobegon is a fictional town created by Garrison Keillor to provide the setting for the long term radio broadcast, Prairie Home Companion. [1]

71 relations: A Prairie Home Companion, Albany, Minnesota, Avon, Minnesota, Bing Maps Platform, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, Catholic Church, Chevrolet, Cold Spring, Minnesota, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, Collegeville Township, Stearns County, Minnesota, County (United States), County seat, David Myers (academic), Ford Motor Company, Forensic Files, Fort Myers, Florida, Freeport, Minnesota, Garrison Keillor, Germans, Germany, Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, Holdingford, Minnesota, Hotdish, Ice fishing, Interpretive dance, Iowa, Kidney stone disease, Lake Ore-be-gone, Lake Wobegon Days, Lake Wobegon Trails, Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories, Lutefisk, Lutheranism, Minnesota, Minnesota Public Radio, Montana, Morrison County, Minnesota, National Geographic, Native Americans in the United States, New Orleans, North Dakota, Norway, Norwegians, Ojibwe, Olivia, Minnesota, Plymouth Brethren, Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon, Prairie, Rice, Minnesota, Richmond, Minnesota, ..., Rockville, Minnesota, Scandinavia, South Dakota, St. Cloud, Minnesota, St. Joseph, Minnesota, St. Olaf College, St. Rosa, Minnesota, St. Stephen, Minnesota, St. Wendel Township, Stearns County, Minnesota, Stearns County, Minnesota, The Golden Girls, Uff da, Unitarianism, Upper Midwest, Upsala, Minnesota, We Are Still Married: Stories & Letters, Whippet, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Death Trip, Worthington, Minnesota, 30th Annual Grammy Awards. Expand index (21 more) »

A Prairie Home Companion

A Prairie Home Companion is a weekly radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor that aired live from 1974 to 2016.

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Albany, Minnesota

Albany is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States.

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Avon, Minnesota

Avon is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States.

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Bing Maps Platform

Bing Maps Platform (previously Microsoft Virtual Earth) is a geospatial mapping platform produced by Microsoft.

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Black River Falls, Wisconsin

Black River Falls is a city in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Chevrolet

Chevrolet, colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM).

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Cold Spring, Minnesota

Cold Spring is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States.

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College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University

The College of Saint Benedict (CSB), a women's college, and Saint John's University (SJU), a men's college, are private liberal arts colleges respectively located in St. Joseph and Collegeville, Minnesota, United States, near St. Cloud.

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Collegeville Township, Stearns County, Minnesota

Collegeville Township is a township in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States.

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County (United States)

In the United States, an administrative or political subdivision of a state is a county, which is a region having specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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David Myers (academic)

David Guy Myers (born 20 September 1942) is a professor of psychology at Hope College in Michigan, United States, and the author of 17 books, including popular textbooks entitled Psychology, Exploring Psychology, Social Psychology and general-audience books dealing with issues related to Christian faith as well as scientific psychology.

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Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as "Ford") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

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Forensic Files

Forensic Files is an American documentary-style series that reveals how forensic science is used to solve violent crimes, mysterious accidents, and outbreaks of illness.

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Fort Myers, Florida

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Freeport, Minnesota

Freeport is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States.

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Garrison Keillor

Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality.

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Germans

Germans (Deutsche) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album

The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since 1959.

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Holdingford, Minnesota

Holdingford is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States.

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Hotdish

A hotdish is a casserole which typically contains a starch, a meat, and a canned or frozen vegetable mixed with canned soup.

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Ice fishing

Ice fishing is the practice of catching fish with lines and fish hooks or spears through an opening in the ice on a frozen body of water.

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Interpretive dance

Interpretive dance is a family of modern dance styles that began around 1900 with Isadora Duncan.

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Iowa

Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers to the west.

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Kidney stone disease

Kidney stone disease, also known as urolithiasis, is when a solid piece of material (kidney stone) occurs in the urinary tract.

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Lake Ore-be-gone

Lake Ore-be-gone is a artificial lake, formed by the flooding of three open-pit iron ore mines, within the city limits of Gilbert, Minnesota, USA.

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Lake Wobegon Days

Lake Wobegon Days is a novel by Garrison Keillor, first published in hardcover by Viking in 1985.

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Lake Wobegon Trails

The Lake Wobegon Trails are two paved recreational rail trails in central Minnesota, named after the fictional Lake Wobegon in Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion".

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Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories

Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories is a short story anthology written by Garrison Keillor, a humorous fictional account of life in small-town Minnesota set in the fictitious heartland town of Lake Wobegon.

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Lutefisk

Lutefisk (Norwegian) or lutfisk (Swedish) (pronounced in Northern and Central Norway, in Southern Norway, in Sweden and in Finland (lipeäkala)) is a traditional dish of some Nordic countries.

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Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestant Christianity which identifies with the theology of Martin Luther (1483–1546), a German friar, ecclesiastical reformer and theologian.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.

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Minnesota Public Radio

Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), is a public radio network for the state of Minnesota.

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Montana

Montana is a state in the Northwestern United States.

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Morrison County, Minnesota

Morrison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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National Geographic

National Geographic (formerly the National Geographic Magazine and branded also as NAT GEO or) is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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North Dakota

North Dakota is a U.S. state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Norwegians

Norwegians (nordmenn) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Norway.

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Ojibwe

The Ojibwe, Ojibwa, or Chippewa are an Anishinaabeg group of Indigenous Peoples in North America, which is referred to by many of its Indigenous peoples as Turtle Island.

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Olivia, Minnesota

Olivia is a city in Renville County, Minnesota, United States.

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Plymouth Brethren

The Plymouth Brethren are a conservative, low church, nonconformist, evangelical Christian movement whose history can be traced to Dublin, Ireland, in the late 1820s, originating from Anglicanism.

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Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon

Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon is a novel by Garrison Keillor, a humorous fictional account of life in the fictitious heartland town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota.

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Prairie

Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.

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Rice, Minnesota

Rice is a city in Benton County, Minnesota, United States.

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Richmond, Minnesota

Richmond is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States.

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Rockville, Minnesota

Rockville is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural and linguistic ties.

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South Dakota

South Dakota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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St. Cloud, Minnesota

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St. Joseph, Minnesota

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St. Olaf College

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St. Rosa, Minnesota

Saint Rosa is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States.

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St. Stephen, Minnesota

Saint Stephen is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States.

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St. Wendel Township, Stearns County, Minnesota

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Stearns County, Minnesota

Stearns County is a county located in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning seven seasons.

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Uff da

Uff da (sometimes also spelled huffda, uff-da, uffda, uff-dah, oofda, ufda, ufdah, oofta, or uf daa) is an exclamation or interjection expressing bafflement, surprise, or dismay.

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Unitarianism

Unitarianism (from Latin unitas "unity, oneness", from unus "one") is historically a Christian theological movement named for its belief that the God in Christianity is one entity, as opposed to the Trinity (tri- from Latin tres "three") which defines God as three persons in one being; the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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Upper Midwest

The Upper Midwest is a region in the northern portion of the U.S. Census Bureau's Midwestern United States.

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Upsala, Minnesota

Upsala is a city in Morrison County, Minnesota, United States.

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We Are Still Married: Stories & Letters

We Are Still Married: Stories & Letters is a collection of short stories and poems by Garrison Keillor, including several set in the fictitious heartland town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota.

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Whippet

The Whippet (also English Whippet or Snap dog) is a dog breed of medium-size.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.

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Wisconsin Death Trip

Wisconsin Death Trip is a 1973 non-fiction book by Michael Lesy, based on a collection of late 19th century photographs by Jackson County, Wisconsin photographer Charles Van Schaick – mostly taken in the city of Black River Falls – and local news reports from the same period.

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Worthington, Minnesota

Worthington is a city and county seat of Nobles County, Minnesota, United States.

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30th Annual Grammy Awards

The 30th Annual Grammy Awards were held March 2, 1988, at Radio City Music Hall, New York City.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon

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