Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

August 17, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Monday, August 17, 2020
It's the birthday of American folk hero Davy Crockett (1786), who served in the Tennessee state legislature and died in the Battle of the Alamo.

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August 16, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, August 16, 2020
It's the birthday of English philosopher and playwright Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679), who taught herself to read and write when she was a child.

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August 15, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, August 15, 2020
It's the birthday of essayist Thomas de Quincey (Manchester, England, 1785), who arguably invented the "drug memoir" genre.

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August 14, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Friday, August 14, 2020
It's the birthday of cartoonist Gary Larson (1950), who created the popular single-panel comic "The Far Side."

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August 13, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, August 13, 2020
The Lebanese-born Dr. Michael Shadid established the first cooperatively owned and operated hospital in the United States on this date in 1931.

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August 12, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, August 12, 2020
It's the birthday of Katharine Lee Bates, who wrote: "O beautiful for spacious skies, / For amber waves of grain, / For purple mountain majesties / Above the fruited plain!"

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August 11, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Tuesday, August 11, 2020
It's the birthday of Alex Haley (1921-1992), who wrote both "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" (1965) and "Roots" (1976).

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August 10, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Monday, August 10, 2020
It's the birthday of Joyce Sutphen, Poet Laureate of Minnesota, whose poem "Happiness" we are featuring today.

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August 09, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, August 9, 2020
It’s the birthday of author P.L. Travers (1899-1996), who described her popular Mary Poppins series as “both a joy and a curse.”

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August 08, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, August 8, 2020
The first refrigerator was patented in the United States on this date in 1899. The company Frigidaire was founded 19 years later.

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