Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

  • The Writer's Almanac - Tuesday, March 10, 2020
    Harriet Tubman died on this day in 1913. Over 10 years and at least 13 trips, Harriet Tubman led some 300 souls out of slavery into freedom in Canada.

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    5 min
  • The Writer's Almanac - Monday, March 9, 2020
    Today is the birthday of Vita Sackville-West (1892), who said, "It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.”

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, March 8, 2020
    It’s the 60th birthday of Jeffery Eugenides, author of “The Virgin Suicides” (1993) and “Middlesex” (2002), both of which employ unique grammatical points of view.

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, March 7, 2020
    It's the anniversary of the first March from Selma to Montgomery (1965). Footage of policemen attacking these marchers helped shift public opinion on the civil rights movement.

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Friday, March 6, 2020
    It’s the birthday of writer Gabriel García Márquez (Aracataca, Colombia, 1927) and of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Durham, England, 1806).

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, March 5, 2020
    It’s the 250th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, during which colonists taunted and threw ice and oysters at British soldiers, who responded with muskets.

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, March 4, 2020
    On this day in 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated. He brought with him Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the first female cabinet member, who enacted important progressive policies.

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Tuesday, March 3, 2020
    It was on this day in 1931 that "The Star-Spangled Banner" became the official national anthem of the United States.

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Monday, March 2, 2020
    Today is the birthday of the children’s author who wrote, “A person's a person, no matter how small.” Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss (1904).

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, March 1, 2020
    It’s the birthday of Ralph Ellison (1914), who once typed the sentence, “I am an invisible man”—and then wrote a classic book about a character who might say that.

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    5 min

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