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Garrison Keillor to Retire From 'Prairie Home Companion'

Posted Mar 16th 2011 at 09:15 PM by Tracey Harrington McCoy

Longtime host of public radio's 'A Prairie Home Companion,' Garrison Keillor is talking about retiring, The New York Times reports. Keillor has hosted of the weekly radio show, which features music and humorous observations of life in fictional town Lake Wobegon, since he created it in 1974. In an interview with The Bulletin, a publication of AARP, Keillor revealed he was planning on stepping ...

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'Prairie Home' Host Suffers Mild Stroke

Posted Sep 9th 2009 at 03:25 PM by PopEater Staff

'Prairie Home Companion' yarn-spinner Garrison Keillor is being treated at a Minnesota hospital for a minor stroke. Karl Oestreich, a Mayo Clinic spokesman, told reporters Keillor suffered the stroke Sunday morning and is currently being treated at Saint Marys Hospital on the Mayo campus in Rochester. "He is up and moving around, speaking sensibly, working at a laptop, and it's expected he'll ...