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	Lake Wobegon Trails - Hiking, Biking, Walking, Blading, Skiing, Snowmobiling
		This will link the Lake Wobegon Trail to the Central Lakes State Trail and create a 121 mile fltopped separated bike path; probably the longest of its kind in the United States.
		A groundbreaking ceremony was held on Tuesday, July 12, 2005 with trail users and officials from the City of Holdingford, Holding Township and Stearns County in attendance.
		Construction on this portion of the trail is expected to be finished sometime this fall.
	www.lakewobegontrails.com /news.htm (415 words)

	LakeWobegon
		Yet, nowhere to be found in the glorified Lake Wobegon tales or nostalgic wrapped narratives of colonial settlement on the American frontier, is mention of the historical tensions that erupted between Native American tribes and the immigrant farmer.
		Woven into the script of Lake Wobegon are all the heartfelt dreams, riches, and promises of the land that settlers held dearly upon their arrival to the fresh heartland of America.
		Lake Wobegon is a fictional, all-American portrait of the early colonial Midwest staged in the American heartland.
	home.att.net /~xochime/research/lakewobegon.htm (372 words)

	Lake Wobegon - RecipeFacts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lake Wobegon is a fictitious town in the U.S. state of Minnesota, claimed to have been the boyhood home of Garrison Keillor.
		Lake Wobegon is the seat of Mist County, a tiny county near the geographic center of Minnesota that supposedly does not appear on maps because of the incompetence of surveyors who mapped out the state in the 19th century.
		The Catholic parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility and the Lake Wobegon Lutheran Church are there, although Keillor identifies the founders of Lake Wobegon as New England Unitarian missionaries who came to convert the Native Americans through interpretive dance.
	www.recipeland.com /facts/Lake_Wobegon (469 words)

	Fisheries Lake Surveys: Minnesota DNR
		Lake surveys consist of periodic monitoring of fish populations, water chemistry, and fish habitat.
		Lake survey data is used to track fish population trends, evaluate the effectiveness of management actions such as stocking, and establish realistic management goals for a given lake.
		If you cannot find a record for a lake that you are interested in, it is possible that the lake has not yet been surveyed, or it was surveyed many years ago and the data has not yet been entered into the database.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /lakefind/surveys.html (1452 words)

	A Prairie Home Companion from American Public Media
		Minnesota has tens of thousands of lakes and the great man could've driven up to one, rented a boat, and had himself a splendid day on the water and nobody the wiser.
		In Lake Wobegon lives a good Lutheran lady who is quite prepared to die and wishes to be cremated and her ashes placed inside a bowling ball and dropped into the lake, no prayers, no hymns, thank you very much.
		The Lake Wobegon calendar is filled with farming facts, moon cycles, important events and birthdays, as well as inspirational quotes from Garrison Keillor.
	prairiehome.publicradio.org (2737 words)

	Lake Wobegon Rail Trail, Stearns County, Minnesota, National Recreation Trails and greenways
		The Lake Wobegon Trail travels through the heart of the mythical land celebrated in the Prairie Home Companion radio show; read Garrison Keillor's remarks at the trail opening.
		At the grand opening of the Lake Wobegon Trail and in an article he wrote for the National Geographic in December 2000, he confirmed that Lake Wobegon is located in rural Stearns County.
		Morrison County on the north end of the Wobegon Trail has asked that the trail be extended north to connect to the Paul Bunyan Trail.
	www.americantrails.org /nationalrecreationtrails/trailNRT/LakeWobegon-MN.html (492 words)

	Lake Wobegon, het fictieve dorp in Minnesota
		In het boek, Lake Wobegon Days, vertelt hij hoe een auto die in 1952 door het ijs was gezakt nu ieder jaar in maart op het ijs wordt gezet met een stevig touw om zijn achteras, waarbij de bewoners kunnen inzetten op de datum dat hij erdoorheen zakt.
		Desgevraagd zei Keillor altijd dat Lake Wobegon in de buurt lag van Stearns County, ongeveer in het midden van Minnesota.
		In 1998 doopte de county een fietsroute de Lake Wobegon Trail, aanleiding voor Keillor en fotograaf Richard Olsenius om eens te gaan kijken of de dorpen en stadjes hier inderdaad de vergelijking met Keillors fictieve wereld konden doorstaan.
	www.amerika.nl /reizen/html/staten/central/wobegon.htm (1232 words)

	ItascaWeb.com Guide to Jessie Lake, Minnesota
		Lake Jessie Township has a lake of this name and another called Little Jessie Lake, probably either for the daughter of surveyor Taylor, who was in the area, or for timber cruiser Jessie Harry, who died in Grand Rapids in 1955.
		Jessie Lake, the largest in the Watershed, is the eighteenth largest of the 950 lakes in Itasca County.
		Because of the aesthetic beauty of the lake and its surrounding area, as well as its status as a premier walleye fishery, Jessie Lake is the recreational destination of hundreds of visitors and area residents throughout the year.
	www.itascaweb.com /JessieLake.htm (916 words)

	CD Baby: LAKE WOBEGON® BRASS BAND: Bravura!
		The Lake Wobegon® Brass Band, Michael Halstenson, conductor, of Anoka, Minnesota, was formed to showcase the unique sound and style of the British brass band's instrumentation, and by performing those compositions written, arranged or transcribed for this unique instrumentation.
		The Lake Wobegon® Brass Band is sponsored by the Anoka Brass Band Association, Inc., and Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids, Minnesota.
		Lake Wobegon® Brass Band conductor/composer Michael Halstenson describes his composition: "During a trip to Denmark I visited a Viking graveyard outside the city of Aalborg.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/wobegon (925 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Lake Wobegon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lake Wobegon is a town in Minnesota, claimed to have been the boyhood home of Garrison Keillor, who reports the News from Lake Wobegon on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion broadcast every Saturday afternoon over Minnesota Public Radio and NPR stations throughout the US.
		Keillor describes Lake Wobegon as a place where "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."
		Garrison Keillor has also written several semi-autobiographiCAL books about life in Lake Wobegon.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/la/Lake_Wobegon (175 words)

	CD Baby: LAKE WOBEGON® BRASS BAND: Bravura!
		The Lake Wobegon® Brass Band, Michael Halstenson, conductor, of Anoka, Minnesota, was formed to showcase the unique sound and style of the British brass band's instrumentation, and by performing those compositions written, arranged or transcribed for this unique instrumentation.
		The Lake Wobegon® Brass Band is sponsored by the Anoka Brass Band Association, Inc., and Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids, Minnesota.
		Lake Wobegon® Brass Band conductor/composer Michael Halstenson describes his composition: "During a trip to Denmark I visited a Viking graveyard outside the city of Aalborg.
	cdbaby.com /cd/wobegon (936 words)

	A quiet weekend in Lake Wobegon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Participants in the first-ever Wobegon Weekend, the brainchild of Lake Wobegon creator Garrison Keillor, said their only disappointment was the mild weather, something the humorist was most apologetic for.
		The Wobegon weekenders were overwhelmingly white, middle-class and middle-aged couples in their 40s, 50s and 60s.
		The weekend Lake Wobegoners also learned he prefers mittens to gloves and that a good warm hat with flap-down earmuffs is a must.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/2002/02-11-wobegon.htm (1115 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Lake Wobegon Days: Original Radio 4 Broadcast (Radio Collection): Books: Garrison Keillor (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Often funny, sometimes sad, his detailed reminiscences of Lake Wobegon captured the public's imagination when it was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
		Lake Wobegon's not a real place, but it may as well be by the time you've finished the book.
		Lake Wobegon Days is more a collection of quaint tales that don't particularly relate to one another.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Lake-Wobegon-Days-Broadcast-Collection/dp/0563494425 (1215 words)

	Word Spy - Lake Wobegon effect
		In 1987, John Cannell completed a study later popularized as the Lake Woebegone effect.
		The public is getting an overly rosy picture of American schools from standardized achievement tests that allow most districts to claim their pupils are above average, a top Education Department official said Tuesday.
		This effect is most often seen in educational test scores, where some teachers, schools, or school districts claim that all of their students score above average, a mathematical impossibility.
	www.wordspy.com /words/LakeWobegoneffect.asp (447 words)

	CNN.com - Books - Keillor reveals location -- sort of -- of Lake Wobegon - November 20, 2000
		Lake Wobegon is based on Keillor's memories of living in Stearns County, in central Minnesota.
		The Sidetrak Tap in Lake Wobegon was modeled after Freeport's Pioneer Inn, Keillor reports, "a gloomy smoke-filled sour-smelling tavern, cluttered with neon beer signs and deer heads and mottoes (Don't Sleep in Our Bar, We Don't Drink in Your Bed), except the Pioneer Inn has been cleaned up and remodeled and the sourness expunged."
		And it was in the Pioneer Inn that Keillor found Lake Wobegon.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/books/news/11/20/wobegon.found.ap (648 words)

	Tanglewood version of 'A Prairie Home Companion' takes a lovely trip to Lake Wobegon - The Boston Globe
		In the background stood a white frame two-story house surrounded by trees and hung with Fourth of July bunting -- and the porch light was left on.
		Keillor himself enlivened his dark blue suit with a red tie and matching sneakers, and when he settled on a high stool to deliver the news from Lake Wobegon, it became clear he was wearing high red sox too.
		His monologue was about the Fourth of July parade in Lake Wobegon and involved Siamese twin flag-bearers, the village elders costumed as the Founding Fathers, a water-skiing Superman, a parachuting Elvis, and a wall of flaming fireworks.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2006/07/03/keillor_prairie_are_at_home_at_tanglewood (556 words)

	Todd County/Lake Wobegon Trail
		In Osakis, the Lake Wobegon Trail meets the Central Lakes Trail and a paved trail continues to Fergus Falls.
		I have cycled most of the miles along both trails and there are some gorgeous segments, especially through the lakes area to the northwest and the Albany to St. Joseph section of the Lake Wobegon Trail.
		The Lake Wobegon Trail parallels a county road that runs from Osakis to Sauk Centre.
	www.lpleader.com /nature/tcwobegon.html (1488 words)

	Minnesota Trails - Cental Lakes Trail - Lake Osakis Minnesota Fishing Resorts
		The Central Lakes Trail is now Minnesota's 23rd state trail and runs from Osakis to Fergus Falls.
		The Central Lakes Trail is an all season recreational trail that provides a 14' wide bituminous surface for safe off road non-motorized travel by biking, walking or rollerblading in the spring, summer and fall.
		It also connects to the Lake Wobegon Trail which covers 60 miles from Osakis to St. Joseph, Minnesota.
	www.lakeosakismn.com /central_lakes_trail (301 words)

	Lake Wobegon Days Summary
		Garrison Keillor (born 1942), host of public radio's popular A Prairie Home Companion and author of the best-selling Lake Wobegon Days, has made a career of telling stories about the fictional Minnesota town of Lake Wobegon and the lives of its residents...
		Lake Wobegon Days, written by Garrison Keillor, is a humorous, fictional account of life in small-town Minnesota.
		Set in the (fictitious) quintessential heartland town of Lake Wobegon (motto: "Where the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all...
	www.bookrags.com /Lake_Wobegon_Days (203 words)

	'In Search of Lake Wobegon'
		The Sauk River was nearby, to canoe on, and Lake Watab to swim in.
		It was a land of well-tended hog and dairy farms on rolling land punctuated by tidy little towns, each one with a ballpark, two or three taverns, and an imposing Catholic church, and a cemetery behind it where people named Schrupps, Wendelschafer, Frauendienst, Schoppenhorst, and Stuedemann lay shoulder to shoulder.
		One of them said that Watab Lake, east of there, is 180 feet deep and home to some mighty pugnacious fish, none of which he had caught lately.
	events.nytimes.com /2001/08/26/books/chapters/26-1stkeillnf.html?pagewanted=print&position= (2442 words)

	Sola Gratia in Lake Wobegon
		Garrison Keillor, whose news from the fictional town of Lake Wobegon will come to an end on June 13 after more than a dozen years on Public Radio, frequently can be as funny as any humorist you could name.
		You might, for example, be reading Keillor’s book Lake Wobegon Days (Viking Penguin, 1985) to your wife in the car, and suddenly find that you can’t get a passage’s funniest phrases out of your mouth.
		Especially effective, however, is the way that Keillor, without ceasing to be a humorist, gets inside the mind of a worshiper, exaggerating, tossing off choice phrases, exposing the wandering mind and the human frailty, but still not mocking, not observing from outside, not repudiating.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=1025 (2197 words)

	Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 - Garrison Keillor
		A recent television interview with Keillor revealed that "Lake Wobegon Summer 1956" is a sandwich of autobiographical incidents placed between two slices of fiction.
		"Lake Wobegon Summer 1956," takes us back to a time that reminds us growing up is never easy, regardless of the year or societal rules.
		While most of the men in Wobegon are handsome, alas, poor Gary, the self-described "tree-toad," and nerd of the first waters is not.
	www.businessknowhow.com /Writers/criticscorner/ccwobegone.htm (1079 words)

	Amazon.com: Lake Wobegon Days: Books: Garrison Keillor,Mike Lynch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Part town history, part family remembrance, Lake Wobegon is imbued with a warm, sly humor that picks at the silliness and the earnestness that are woven so tightly together in small town American life.
		Another twenty years have now passed and we've come to know the characters of Lake Wobegon intimately: the locally wealthy Krebsbach family, Pastor Ingqvist and Father Emil, Herman Hochstetter and the annual Living Flag, the Sons of Knute, and the rules for visiting on front porches.
		His style is reminiscent of Mark Twain and Will Rogers as he tells stories of Lake Wobegonians that reflect the human condition, the joys and frustrations of growing up in a small town, the agony that is adolescence, the desperation of a young man to escape of his past and his struggles when he does.
	www.amazon.com /Lake-Wobegon-Days-Garrison-Keillor/dp/0140131612 (1419 words)

	Baseball Prospectus \| Unfiltered
		The Lake Wobegon effect is the human tendency to overestimate one’s achievements and capabilities in relation to others.
		It is named for the fictional town of Lake Wobegon from the radio series A Prairie Home Companion, where, according to Garrison Keillor, “all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average”.
		It’s important to emphasize that avoiding the Lake Wobegon effect is a necessary but not sufficient condition of a good projection system.
	www.baseballprospectus.com /unfiltered/?p=171 (651 words)

	CNN - Books: "Wobegon Boy" by Garrison Keillor -Feb. 23, 1998
		John Tollefson has escaped Lake Wobegon but he can never bury his Minnesota roots.
		Though Keillor's "Wobegon Boy" takes you far from Minnesota, it is quick to provide the news from Lake Wobegon.
		Lake Wobegon was a rough town then, where, all on one block, for less than five dollars, you could get a tattoo, a glass of gin, and a social disease, and have enough left over to get in a poker game, but Lutherans civilized it.
	www.cnn.com /books/beginnings/9802/23/index.html (3835 words)

	A long way from Lake Wobegon: UMNnews: U of M.
		As part of her research, Adrian--who was raised a Catholic in White Bear Lake, Minn.--also attended up to four Lutheran services each Sunday for the past three years.
		Huie 's most well known work is Lake Street USA, an exhibition of 675 photographs that transformed six miles of a Minneapolis thoroughfare into a remarkable public art project.
		"A Mighty Fortress Far from Lake Wobegon" is free and runs through Dec. 29 in the Elmer L. Andersen's atrium gallery; viewing hours are weekdays 8 to 4:30 p.m.
	www.umn.edu /umnnews/Feature_Stories/A_long_way_from_Lake_Wobegon.html (1257 words)

	Yakima Herald Republic Online - Home Page - Yakima, Washington News, Classifieds, Information, Advertising
		She held a hard-bound copy of "Wobegon Boy" while her daughter, Carolyn Williams of Portland, who was visiting her mother while on a business trip, had a paperback version of Keillor's most recent book, "Homegrown Democrat."
		Although not everyone who turned out Wednesday was as familiar with the 64-year-old entertainer as "Prairie Home" aficionados are, the house seemed delighted with his Lake Wobegon monologue.
		Later, after singing a song he wrote to bless and remember the aunts he fondly recalled as angels of mercy in his Minnesota upbringing, Keillor morphed into the man from Lake Wobegon, the fictional town he revisits every week on his radio show.
	www.yakima-herald.com /page/dis/287297788893236 (763 words)

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