April 2nd, 7:30pm
\nKent State Performing Arts Center
\n330 University Dr NE, New Philadelphia, OH 44663<\/p>\n
Garrison Keillo<\/strong>r<\/strong>\u00a0did \u201cA Prairie Home Companion\u201d for forty years, wrote fiction and comedy, invented a town called Lake Wobegon where all the children are above average, even though he himself grew up evangelical in a small separatist flock where all the children expected the imminent end of the world. He\u2019s busy in retirement, having written a memoir and a book of limericks and is at work on a musical and a Lake Wobegon screenplay, and he continues to do \u201cThe Writers Almanac\u201d sent out daily to Internet subscribers (free).<\/p>\n He and his wife Jenny Lind Nilsson live in Minneapolis, not far from the YMCA where he was sent for swimming lessons at age 12 after his cousin drowned, and he skipped the lessons and went to the public library instead and to a radio studio to watch a noontime show with singers and a band. Thus, our course in life is set.<\/p>\n