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Garrison Keillor is coming to Newark’s Midland Theatre in March

Garrison Keillor is coming to Newark’s Midland Theatre in March
Garrison Keillor performs Saturday, May 2, 2015, during the live taping of "A Prairie Home Companion" at the Goshen College Sauder Concert Hall. SBT Photo/GREG SWIERCZ

What Garrison Keillor wished to converse about was gratitude.

“With getting old, when your existence comes into much clearer viewpoint,” Keillor mused. “I consider again to the many years of my so-known as profession and it was so frantic, so occupied. I don’t forget certain situations, but I recall my adolescence and childhood much more clearly, much more than what I was doing in the several years with the radio method, and the tours, and the vacation. I was consumed with ambition, and the upcoming thing, and the issue just after that…”

But now, encountering growing older and boundaries: “You just feel gratitude for anything. What’s still left is really attractive. My spouse and I engage in Scrabble each individual working day. When I was so bold, I did not have time for that, but now I do.”

I was asking the observed author, performer, and soon-to-be 3rd-time-guest on the Midland Theatre stage, about preaching and sermons and storytelling. It was an interview as a extended-time enthusiast I’d imagined lots of moments right before, and like Lake Wobegon it didn’t quite seem true, besides there was no mistaking the voice on the other conclusion of the mobile phone advising me on the rigidity amongst preparing and shipping and delivery in speaking to an audience.

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“If you sit down and generate out what you are going to say, you locate out that when you get up and go out to provide that manuscript by coronary heart, you will keep in mind what you require to,” explained Garrison Keillor. 

“Memory is a great editor.”

A fixture on community radio for numerous years with his “Prairie Household Companion” Saturday night system, a yr immediately after he chose to finish his weekly appearances on the air and switch issues above to a new host, a former coworker accused Keillor of inappropriate conduct in the office. His public radio employers speedily slash all ties with him, and a settlement was achieved.