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Good morning from Collegeville,

 No more “Morning Show”.  Yesterday was the final broadcast of “The Morning Show” with Dale Connelly and Jim Ed Poole.  It was a live broadcast from The Fitzgerald Theater with standing room only.  I was not able to be there but a friend of mine and his wife went wearing black, in mourning for “The Morning Show”.  They reported that it was an awesome show. 

 In 1969 Garrison Keillor started doing a morning drive show from here at Collegeville.  In the February 1973 issue of Preview, the fore runner for Minnesota Monthly Magazine, the show was listed as “A Prairie Home Companion”.  In March of 1973, Garrison took a month’s vacation and the Preview magazine listed “Morning Program” as the replacement for APHC.  In April Garrison came back on the air.  He did the morning drive version of APHC until he started the Saturday late afternoon show and then he probably changed it to “The Morning Show”.  In 1983, he turned the show over to Jim Ed Poole and Dale Connelly.  It is safe to say there will never be any thing that will compare, however Dale is doing a show online for MPR.  He can be heard online at www.radioheartland.org every morning from 6 AM until 9 AM, Monday thru Friday.   Jim Ed is retiring to his wood working shop.  They will be greatly missed. 

 The APHC show this week is once again from the Town Hall in New York City.  Special guests include cellist and founder of the Silk Road Project, Yo-Yo Ma, legendary lyric soprano Renee Fleming and California wild man of the modern mandolin Chris Thile.  Bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer and top violist Nicholas Cords will also perform.

Enjoy the show.

 “You must not think that feeling is everything.  Art is nothing without form.”  Gustave Flaubert

 

 

Gary M. Osberg   on the web at www.garyosberg.com