Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

September 06, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, September 6, 2020
Using the Old Style calendar, it was on this day 400 years ago that the Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, England, bound for the New World.

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September 05, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, September 5, 2020
The classic novel,"On The Road" was published on this day in 1957. Jack Kerouac based his novel on road trips with his friend Neal Cassady.

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September 04, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Friday, September 4, 2020
It's the birthday of novelist Richard Wright, author of "Native Son" (1940), who said, "All literature is protest. You can’t name a single novel that isn’t protest.”

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September 03, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, September 3, 2020
It's the birthday of war correspondent Marguerite Higgins (1920-1966), who fought for her right to cover the Korean War and who died while covering Vietnam.

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September 02, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, September 2, 2020
It’s the birthday of Albert Goodwill Spalding (1850), a baseball player and a founder of the sporting goods company A.G. Spalding and Brothers.

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September 01, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Tuesday, September 1, 2020
It’s the birthday of Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875), who wrote "Tarzan of the Apes" and who bought a section of Los Angeles that's now known as Tarzana.

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August 31, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Monday, August 31, 2020
It's the birthday of pioneering educator Maria Montessori (1870-1952), who emphasized independence, self-directed learning, and learning from peers.

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August 30, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, August 30, 2020
It was on this day in 30 B.C. that Queen Cleopatra of Egypt killed herself with a snake rather than remain the prisoner of Octavian.

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August 29, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, August 29, 2020
It was on this day 15 years ago that Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast near New Orleans. More than 80% of the city was eventually flooded.

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August 28, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Friday, August 28, 2020
On this day in 1963, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

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