"Arrival of the dean fleet", showing the garrison of Malta in 1565 and the Ottoman invasion force.

Garrison (various spellings) (from the French garnison, itself from the verb garnir, "to equip") is the collective term for a body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it, but now often simply using it as a home base. The garrison is usually in a city, town, fort, castle or similar. "Garrison town" is a common expression for any town that has a military base nearby.

Arab garrison[link]

"Garrison towns" (Arabic: حصون ‎) were used during the Arab Islamic conquests of Middle Eastern lands by Arab-Muslim armies to increase their dominance over indigenous populations.^[1] In order to occupy non-Arab, non-Islamic areas, nomadic Arab tribesmen were taken from the desert by the ruling Arab elite, conscripted into Islamic armies, and settled into garrison towns as well as given a share in the spoils of war. The primary utility of the Arab-Islamic garrisons was to control the indigenous non-Arab peoples of these conquered and occupied territories, and to serve as garrison bases to launch further Islamic military campaigns into yet-undominated lands. A secondary aspect of the Arab-Islamic garrisons was the uprooting of the aforementioned nomadic Arab tribesmen from their original home regions in the Arabian Peninsula in order to proactively avert these tribal peoples, and particularly their young men, from revolting against the Islamic state established in their midst.

British and Irish garrison[link]

In the United Kingdom, "Garrison" also specifically refers to any of the major military stations such as Aldershot, Catterick, Colchester, Tidworth, Bulford and London, which have more than one barracks or camp and their own military headquarters, usually commanded by a Colonel, Brigadier or Major-General, assisted by a Garrison Sergeant Major. In Ireland, Association football (as distinct from Gaelic football) has historically been termed the 'garrison game' or the 'garrison sport' for its connections with British military serving in Irish cities and towns.^[2]

Israeli garrison[link]

In Israel, a "garrison unit" (Hebrew: חיל מצב‎) is a regular unit defending a specified Israeli zone in need of protection from attack from combatants. Israeli garrison units placed in the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria/West Bank are recognized under UN Resolution 242 as occupied pending peaceful recognition by all regional combatants.

References[link]

• Nouveau petit Larousse illustré, 1952 (French encyclopedic dictionary)

Mike Gillis
Born	(1958-12-01) December 1, 1958 (age 53) Sudbury, ON, CAN
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	195 lb (88 kg; 13 st 13 lb)
Position	Left Wing
Shot	Left
Played for	Colorado Rockies Boston Bruins
NHL Draft	5th overall, 1978 Colorado Rockies
Playing career	1978–1984

Michael David Gillis (born December 1, 1958 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current president and general manager of the Vancouver Canucks.

Playing career[link]

Mike Gillis spent his junior hockey career with the Kingston Canadians of the OMJHL from 1975–1978, playing in 111 games, and scoring 132 points (39 goals-93 assists). He added on 18 points (4G-14A) in 12 playoff games. Gillis missed most of the 1976–77 season due to a leg injury. He was drafted in the 1st round, 5th overall by the Colorado Rockies in the 1978 NHL Entry Draft.

In 1978-79, Gillis played 2 games with the Philadelphia Firebirds of the AHL, getting no points, and spent 30 games with the Rockies, getting 8 points (1G-7A). He split the 1979–80 season with the Rockies, getting 9 points (4G-5A) in 40 games, and the Fort Worth Texans of the CHL, with 22 points (9G-13A) in 29 games. Gillis started the 1980–81 season with Colorado, and had 18 points (11G-7A) in 51 games before being sent to the Boston Bruins for Bob Miller. Gillis then had 6 points (2G-4A) in 17 games, for a total of 24 points (13G-11A), which would be his career high. Gillis also appeared in a playoff game, going pointless.

In 1981–82, Gillis then registered 17 points (9G-8A) in 53 games, and earned 3 points (1G-2A) in 11 playoff games. He spent the majority of the 1982–83 season with the Baltimore Skipjacks of the AHL, getting 113 points (32G-81A) in 74 games, good for 4th in AHL league scoring. He also played 5 games with Boston, earning an assist, then played 12 playoff games for the Bruins, earning 4 points (1G-3A). Gillis split the 1983–84 season with the Bruins, getting 17 points (6G-11A) in 50 games, and with the Hershey Bears of the AHL, getting 29 points (8G-21A) in 26 games. He played 3 playoff games with Boston, getting no points.

Gillis retired from hockey in the summer of 1984.

Post-playing career[link]

Agent[link]

Upon retiring from playing hockey, Mike Gillis coached the Queen's University Golden Gaels hockey team in 1985–86. He earned a law degree from Queen's University in 1990, and became a player agent. His clientele over the years included Pavel Bure, Markus Näslund, Bobby Holík, and Mike Richter among others.

General manager[link]

With the firing of Vancouver Canucks general manager Dave Nonis at the end of the 2007–08 season, Gillis was introduced by the organization as Nonis' successor on April 23, 2008.^[1] Entering into the free agent market as a general manager for the first time in July 2008, Gillis made immediate changes. He chose not to re-sign former client and longtime Canucks captain Markus Naslund, nor forward Brendan Morrison. He made an aggressive pitch for unrestricted free agent center Mats Sundin with a two-year, $20 million offer. The deal would have made him the highest paid player in the league.^[2] Sundin decided against signing with any team until midway through the subsequent season, but eventually accepted a one-year, pro-rated $8.6 million offer on December 18, 2008.^[3] Several months later, before the 2008–09 NHL trade deadline, Gillis re-signed emerging forward Alexandre Burrows to a four-year, $8 million contract on March 3, 2009, substantially raising his $525,000 salary.^[4] Burrows was in the midst of a career-season and ended the campaign with what was a personal best 28 goals and 51 points.

After winning a Northwest Division title and making it as far as game six of the second round in 2009, Gillis continued to re-sign key players. With the Canucks' leading scorers Daniel and Henrik Sedin set to become unrestricted free agents on July 1, 2009, Gillis flew to Sweden to negotiate with the twins, signing them to identical five-year, $30.5 million deals hours before free agency period was set to begin.^[5] Soon thereafter, negotiations began with star goaltender Roberto Luongo, who was entering the final year of his original four-year deal with the Canucks, signed with Gillis' predecessor, Nonis. Several days after Luongo gave the Canucks a September 13 deadline to come to an agreement before ceasing negotiations for the upcoming season, Gillis signed him to a 12-year, $64 million contract extension on September 2.^[6] Other significant signings in the 2009 off-season included unrestricted free agent Mikael Samuelsson from the Detroit Red Wings and Canucks prospect Sergei Shirokov from the Kontinental Hockey League.^[7][8] His first noteworthy trade occurred on August 28, 2009, when he sent prospect forwards Patrick White and Daniel Rahimi to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for defencemn Christian Ehrhoff and Brad Lukowich. Of the two defencemen acquired, the younger Ehrhoff proved to be the centerpiece of the deal. San Jose's primary motivation to send him away was to clear salary cap space in anticipation of the their acquisition of star forward Dany Heatley from the Ottawa Senators. For the Canucks, Ehrhoff's acquisition addressed the need for a puck-moving defenceman to move play out of the defensive zone.^[9] Ehrhoff went on to lead the Canucks defencemen in scoring that season.

In the midst of Gillis' off-season transactions, the Canucks were involved in a pair of tampering incidents with Toronto Maple Leafs management. The first incident occurred in late June 2009 when Leafs head coach Ron Wilson publicized the club's intentions to pursue the Sedin twins if Gillis could not re-sign them before the free agency period began.^[10] Several months later in September, a Leafs TV documentary covering June's 2009 NHL Entry Draft featured Leafs general manager Brian Burke indicating that Gillis had pursued the Tampa Bay Lightning's second overall pick for a package consisting defenceman Kevin Bieksa, forward Alex Burrows and their first-round selection.^[10] Although the segment was eventually pulled off the air, Gillis filed tampering charges against the Leafs near the beginning of the 2009–10 season for both incidents.^[11] The NHL fined Wilson US$10,000 for his part in tampering with the Sedins, while Burke and the Leafs management were given a warning for the draft incident.^[10]

The Canucks went on to win the Northwest Division title, but lost in the second round to the Blackhawks in 2009–10, both for the second consecutive year under Gillis. In the off-season, Gillis made significant defensive acquisitions, trading for Keith Ballard from the Florida Panthers (in exchange for a first-round draft pick, Michael Grabner and Steve Bernier), and signing Dan Hamhuis ($27 million over six years). Gillis also signed third-line centre Manny Malhotra. While Hamhuis and Malhotra became integral parts of the Canucks' successful season in 2010–11, Ballard struggled to remain in the lineup with injuries and numerous bouts of healthy scratches. Meanwhile, Grabner became a Calder Memorial Trophy nominee that season as the league's top rookie. In goal, Gillis had re-signed prosect Cory Schneider in the off-season, as well. Backing up Luongo as a rookie, the duo won the William M. Jennings Trophy as the goaltending tandem with the least goals against in the league. Gillis' transactions were instrumental in the Canucks' first Presidents' Trophy, leading the NHL with the best regular season record in 2010–11. He was awarded with the league's inaugural NHL General Manager of the Year Award.

Career statistics[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Mike Gillis's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database
• Mike Gillis's biography at Legends of Hockey

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Matt Garrison
Background information
Birth name	Matthew Garrison
Born	(1970-06-02) June 2, 1970 (age 42) New York City, New York, United States
Origin	New York City, New York, United States
Genres	Jazz, jazz fusion
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Bass
Years active	1993–present
Labels	GarrisonJazz Productions
Associated acts	Jimmy Garrison, John McLaughlin, Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock, John Scofield, Scott Kinsey, Arto Tuncboyaciyan
Website	musiccenter.garrisonjazz.com
Notable instruments
Fodera Guitars, Inc Epifani Custom Sound

Matthew Garrison (born June 2, 1970)^[1] is an American jazz bassist, son of Jimmy Garrison.^[2]

He is noted for playing his signature series Fodera bass and for having created and developed a pizzicato technique which uses four fingers.^{[citation needed]} He founded his own recording label and production company in 2000 called GarrisonJazz Productions, through which he has released two CDs and a live performance DVD.

Discography[link]

As leader[link]

• Matthew Garrison – Matthew Garrison (2001)
• Matthew Garrison – Matt Garrison Live (2004)
• Matthew Garrison – Shapeshifter (2004)
• Matthew Garrison - "ShapeShifter Live 2010 Part 1 - Matthew Garrison Solo" (2010)

As sideman[link]

• New York Jazz Guerrilla - Method To The Madness *part 1 (1992 / 1998, with Torsten de Winkel, John Arnold, Gary Thomas, Henry Hey)
• Pat Metheny – Stone Free (1993)
• Bob Moses – Time Stood Still (1994)
• Nando Lauria – Points of View (1994)
• Steve Coleman – The Tao of Mad Phat (1995)
• Joe Zawinul – My People (1996)
• Steve Coleman – Def Trance Beat (1997)
• John McLaughlin – The Heart of Things (1997)
• Rocco Zifarelli – Lyndon (1998)
• Harry Sokal – Full Circle (1998)
• Andy Milne – Forward to Get Back (1998)
• Jim Beard – Advocate (1999)
• John McLaughlin – The Heart of Things - "Live in Paris" (2000)
• Dennis Chambers – Outbreak (2002)
• Herbie Hancock – Future 2 Future Live (2002)
• Anders Mogensen, Niclas Knudsen – Anders Mogensen & Niclas Knudsen feat. Matt Garrison (2002)
• Revolution Void – Increase the Dosage (2004)
• World Saxophone Quartet - Experience (2004)
• Wallace Roney – Prototype (2004)
• Me'shell Ndegeocello – The Spirit Music Jamia: Dance of the Infidel (2005)
• Gary Husband's Force Majeure – Live At The Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (2005) - DVD
• Wallace Roney – Mystical (2005)
• John McLaughlin – Industrial Zen (2006)
• Alex Machacek, Jeff Sipe - "Improvision" (2007)
• Terri Lyne Carrington "More To Say" 2009
• Gergo Borlai - "M.M.M." (2010)
• Ranjit Barot - "Bada Boom" (2010)
• Pino Daniele - "Boogie Boogie Man" (2010)
• Human Element - "Human Element" (2011)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Matt Garrison official website
• Matt Garrison on Myspace
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Ward 21 are group of dancehall musicians and producers hailing from Kingston, Jamaica, named for the psychiatric ward at the University College Hospital in Kingston.^[1] Ward 21 are renowned producers and have created hit dancehall riddims like "Badda badda", "Da Joint", "Bellyas", and "Volume" as well as hit singles like "Haters" and "Judgement Day". In 2005, the group went on a tour through Europe, playing shows in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Romania, Switzerland, Italy and Spain. They also performed at Europe's biggest reggae festival, Summerjam, later that year.^[2]

In addition to countless singles (released mostly on King Jammy's label) and tracks on compilations, Ward 21 have released three albums on the reggae label Greensleeves. The band had participated in 311's remix of Amber song in Supa Dups Remix.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• Mentally Disturbed (album) (2001)
• U Know How We Roll (2003)
• King of the World (Ward 21) (2006)
• Genesis (Ward 21 album) (2009)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Greensleeves website
• Ward 21 Music Official website
• Mentally Disturbed review at BBC.co.uk
• / Ward 21 Music Marketing Team | KaliReviews.com
• Ward 21 Music | Bada Bada Gang Official Blog

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Garrison Keillor
Birth name	Gary Edward Keillor
Born	(1942-08-07) August 7, 1942 (age 69) Anoka, Minnesota
Medium	Radio, Print
Nationality	American
Years active	1969–present
Genres	Observational comedy, Satire
Subject(s)	American culture (esp. the Midwest); American politics
Spouse	Mary Guntzel (1965–1976) Ulla Skaerved (1985–1990) Jenny Lind Nilsson (1995–present)
Notable works and roles	Himself, Guy Noir, Lefty, Bob Burger, and Lake Wobegon narrator in A Prairie Home Companion

Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, and radio personality. He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion (also known as Garrison Keillor's Radio Show on United Kingdom's BBC Radio 4 Extra, as well as on RTÉ in Ireland, Australia's ABC, and Radio New Zealand National in New Zealand).

Personal life[link]

Keillor was born in Anoka, Minnesota, the son of Grace Ruth (née Denham) and John Philip Keillor, who was a carpenter and postal worker.^[1][2] The family belonged to the Plymouth Brethren, an Irish fundamentalist Christian denomination Keillor has since left. He is six feet, three inches (1.9 m) tall^[3] and has Scots ancestry. Keillor is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.^[4] In 2006 he told Christianity Today that he was attending the Episcopal church in Saint Paul, after previously attending a Lutheran church in New York.^[5][6] He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in English in 1966. While there, he began his broadcasting career on the student-operated radio station known today as Radio K.

Keillor has been married three times:^[7]

• To Mary Guntzel, from 1965 to 1976. The couple has one son, Jason, born in 1969.
• To Ulla Skaerved (a former exchange student from Denmark at Keillor's high school whom he famously re-encountered at a class reunion), from 1985 to 1990.
• To violinist Jenny Lind Nilsson (b. 1957), who is from his hometown of Anoka, since 1995. They have one daughter, Maia Grace Keillor, born December 29, 1997.^[8]

Between his first and second marriages, he was also romantically involved with Margaret Moos, who worked as a producer of A Prairie Home Companion.^[9]

The Keillors maintain homes on the Upper West Side of New York City and in Saint Paul, Minnesota. One of his brothers, the historian Steven Keillor, is also an author.^[10] In the summer of 2001, Keillor had mitral valve surgery on his heart.

On September 7, 2009, Keillor was briefly hospitalized after suffering a minor stroke.^[11]

Ancestors[link]

In his book Homegrown Democrat (2004), Keillor mentions some of his noteworthy ancestors, including Joseph Crandall,^[12] who was an associate of Roger Williams (who founded the first American Baptist church as well as Rhode Island); and Prudence Crandall, who founded the first African-American women's school in America.^[13]

Career[link]

Keillor in 2010, wearing his signature red shoes

Radio[link]

Garrison Keillor started his professional radio career in November 1969 with Minnesota Educational Radio (MER), now Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) and distributing programs under the American Public Media (APM) brand. He hosted The Morning Program in the weekday drive time slot of 6 to 9 a.m. on KSJR 90.1 FM at St. John's University in Collegeville, which the station called "A Prairie Home Entertainment." The show's eclectic music was a major divergence from the station's usual classical fare. During this time he also began submitting fiction to The New Yorker, where his first story, "Local Family Keeps Son Happy," appeared on September 19, 1970.^[14]

Keillor resigned from The Morning Program in February 1971 to protest what he considered an attempt to interfere with his musical programming. The show became A Prairie Home Companion when he returned in October.^[15]

Keillor has attributed the idea for the live Saturday night radio program to his 1973 assignment to write about the Grand Ole Opry for The New Yorker, but he had already begun showcasing local musicians on the morning show, despite limited studio space for them, and in August 1973 The Minneapolis Tribune reported MER's plans for a Saturday night version of A Prairie Home Companion with live musicians.^[15][16]

A Prairie Home Companion debuted as an old-style variety show before a live audience on July 6, 1974, featuring guest musicians and a cadre cast doing musical numbers and comic skits replete with elaborate live sound effects. The show was punctuated by spoof commercial spots from such fictitious sponsors as Jack's Auto Repair ("All tracks lead to Jack's where the bright shining lights show you the way to complete satisfaction") and Powdermilk Biscuits, which "give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done."^[15] Later imaginary sponsors have included Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery ("If you can't find it at Ralph's, you can probably get along without it"), Bertha's Kitty Boutique, the Ketchup Advisory Board^[17] (which touted "the natural mellowing agents of ketchup"), the American Duct Tape Council, and Bebop-A-Reebop Rhubarb Pie ("sweetening the sour taste of failure through the generations"). The show also contains parodic serial melodramas, such as The Adventures of Guy Noir, Private Eye and The Lives of the Cowboys. After the show's intermission, Keillor reads clever and often humorous greetings to friends and family at home submitted by members of the theater audience in exchange for an honorarium.

Also in the second half of the show, the broadcasts showcase a weekly monologue by Keillor entitled The News from Lake Wobegon. The town is based in part on Keillor's own hometown of Anoka, Minnesota, and in part on Freeport and other towns in Stearns County, where he lived in the early 1970s.^[18] Lake Wobegon is a quintessential but fictional Minnesotan small town "where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." A Prairie Home Companion ran until 1987, when Keillor decided to end it; he worked on other projects, including another live radio program, "The American Radio Company of the Air" — which had almost the same format as A Prairie Home Companion's — for several years. In 1993 he began producing A Prairie Home Companion again, in a format nearly identical to the original's, and has done so since.^[19] On A Prairie Home Companion, Keillor receives no billing or credit (except "written by Sarah Bellum," a joking reference to his own brain); his name is not mentioned unless a guest addresses him by his first name or the initials "G. K.," though some sketches feature Keillor as his alter ego, Carson Wyler.

A Prairie Home Companion regularly goes on the road and is broadcast live from popular venues around the United States, often featuring local celebrities and skits incorporating local color. In April 2000, he took the programme to Edinburgh, Scotland and gave two performances in the city's Queen's Hall. These were broadcast by BBC Radio on 1 and 8 April. He also toured Scotland with the program to celebrate its 25th anniversary.

Keillor also sometimes gives broadcast performances of a similar nature that do not carry the "Prairie Home Companion" brand, as in his 2008 appearance at the Oregon Bach Festival.^[20]

In a March 2011 interview with the AARP Bulletin, Keillor announced that he would be retiring from A Prairie Home Companion in 2013^[21], but in a December 2011 interview with the Sioux City Journal, Keillor told the interviewer "The show is going well. I love doing it. Why quit?"^[22] His publicist later confirmed that "He doesn't have any specific plans to retire. He's still having a lot of fun doing the show."^[23]

Keillor is also the host of The Writer's Almanac which, like A Prairie Home Companion, is produced and distributed by American Public Media. The Writer's Almanac is also available online^[24] and via daily e-mail installments by subscription.^[25]

Writing[link]

Keillor in 2007 in Lanesboro, Minnesota

Keillor has written numerous magazine and newspaper articles and more than a dozen books for adults as well as children. In addition to writing for The New Yorker, he has written for The Atlantic Monthly and Salon.com.

He also authored an advice column at Salon.com under the name "Mr. Blue." Following a heart operation, he resigned on September 4, 2001, his last column being titled "Every dog has his day":^[26]

Illness offers the chance to think long thoughts about the future (praying that we yet have one, dear God), and so I have, and so this is the last column of Mr. Blue, under my authorship, for Salon. Over the years, Mr. Blue's strongest advice has come down on the side of freedom in our personal lives, freedom from crushing obligation and overwork and family expectations and the freedom to walk our own walk and be who we are. And some of the best letters have been addressed to younger readers trapped in jobs like steel suits, advising them to bust loose and go off and have an adventure. Some of the advisees have written back to inform Mr. Blue that the advice was taken and that the adventure changed their lives. This was gratifying. So now I am simply taking my own advice. Cut back on obligations: Promote a certain elegant looseness in life. Simple as that. Winter and spring, I almost capsized from work, and in the summer I had a week in St. Mary's Hospital to sit and think, and that's the result. Every dog has his day and I've had mine and given whatever advice was mine to give (and a little more). It was exhilarating to get the chance to be useful, which is always an issue for a writer (What good does fiction do?), and Mr. Blue was a way to be useful. Nothing human is beneath a writer's attention; the basic questions about how to attract a lover and what to do with one once you get one and how to deal with disappointment in marriage are the stuff that fiction is made from, so why not try to speak directly? And so I did. And now it's time to move on.

In 2004 Keillor published a collection of political essays, Homegrown Democrat, and in June 2005 he began a column called "The Old Scout",^[27] which ran at Salon.com and in syndicated newspapers. The column went on hiatus in April 2010 "so that he [could] finish a screenplay and start writing a novel".

Keillor wrote the screenplay for the 2006 movie A Prairie Home Companion, directed by Robert Altman. (Keillor also appears in the movie.)

"Common Good Books, G. Keillor, Prop." in St. Paul

Bookselling[link]

On November 1, 2006, Keillor opened an independent bookstore, "Common Good Books, G. Keillor, Prop."^[28] in the Blair Arcade Building at the southwest corner of Selby and N. Western Avenues in the Cathedral Hill area in the Summit-University neighborhood of Saint Paul, Minnesota.^[29] The bookstore's opening was covered by the St. Paul Pioneer Press.^[30] In April 2012, the store moved to a new location across Snelling Ave from Macalester College in the Macalester-Groveland neighborhood^[31]

Voiceover work[link]

Probably owing in part to his distinctive North Central accent, Keillor is often used as a voiceover actor. Some notable appearances include:

• Voiceover artist for Honda UK's "the Power of Dreams" campaign. The campaign's most memorable advertisement is the 2003 Honda Accord commercial Cog, which features a Heath Robinson contraption (Rube Goldberg Machine for those in the USA) made entirely of car parts. The commercial ends with Keillor asking, "Isn't it nice when things just work?"^[32] Since then, Keillor has voiced the tagline for most if not all UK Honda advertisements, and even sang the voiceover in the 2004 Honda Diesel commercial "Grrr".^[33] His most recent ad was a reworking of an existing commercial with digitally added England flags to tie in with the World Cup. Keillor's tagline was "Come on, England, keep the dream alive."
• Voice of the Norse god Odin in an episode of the Disney animated series Hercules.
• Voice of Walt Whitman and other historical figures in Ken Burns's documentary series The Civil War and Baseball.

Controversies[link]

In 2005, Keillor's attorneys sent a cease-and-desist letter to MNSpeak.com regarding their production of a T-shirt bearing the inscription "A Prairie Ho Companion."^[34]

In 2006, after a visit to a United Methodist Church in Highland Park, Texas, Keillor created a local controversy with his remarks about the event,^[35] including the rhetorical suggestion of a connection between event participants and supporters of torture and a statement creating an impression of political intimidation: "I walked in, was met by two burly security men ... and within 10 minutes was told by three people that this was the Bushes' church and that it would be better if I didn't talk about politics." The security detail is purportedly routine for the venue, and according to participants, Keillor did not interact with any audience members between his arrival and his lecture.^[36] Supposedly, before Keillor's remarks, participants in the event had considered the visit to have been cordial and warm.^[37]

In 2007, Keillor wrote a column that in part criticized "stereotypical" gay parents, who he said were "sardonic fellows with fussy hair who live in over-decorated apartments with a striped sofa and a small weird dog and who worship campy performers."^[38] In response to the strong reactions of many readers, Keillor said

I live in a small world -- the world of entertainment, musicians, writers -- in which gayness is as common as having brown eyes .... And in that small world, we talk openly and we kid each other a lot. But in the larger world, gayness is controversial ... and so gay people feel besieged to some degree and rightly so .... My column spoke as we would speak in my small world, and it was read by people in the larger world and thus the misunderstanding. And for that, I am sorry. Gay people who set out to be parents can be just as good parents as anybody else, and they know that, and so do I. ^[39]

In 2008, Keillor created a controversy in St. Paul when he filed a lawsuit against his neighbors' plans to build an addition on their home, citing his need for "light and air" and a view of "open space and beyond". Keillor's home is significantly larger than others in his neighborhood and would still be significantly larger than his neighbors' with its planned addition.^[40] Keillor came to an undisclosed settlement with his neighbors shortly after the story became public.^[41]

In popular culture[link]

His style, particularly his speaking voice, is often the subject of parody. The Simpsons parodied Keillor in an episode in which Homer is shown watching a Keillor-like monologist on television; Homer hit the set exclaiming "Stupid TV! Be more funny!".^[42]

One Boston radio critic likens Keillor and his "down comforter voice" to "a hypnotist intoning, 'You are getting sleepy now'," while noting that Keillor does play to listeners' intelligence.^[43] Keillor rarely reads his monologue from a script.

One of the audio bumpers that begin each hour of Dennis Miller's radio talk show features a short clip of Keillor introducing a broadcast of APHC, followed immediately by snoring.

In the bonus DVD material for the album Venue Songs by band They Might Be Giants, John Hodgman delivers a fictitious newscast in which he explains that "The Artist Formerly Known as Public Radio Host Garrison Keillor" and his "legacy of Midwestern pledge-drive funk" inspired the band's first "venue song."^[44]

Pennsylvanian singer-songwriter Tom Flannery wrote a song in 2003 entitled "I Want a Job Like Garrison Keillor's."^[45]

The Cleveland Show once mentioned Keillor as an exemplar of humor so subtle as to be inscrutable. ^[46]

The Homestar Runner cartoon "Date Nite" features an Easter egg found by clicking on the period in "end." at the end of the cartoon. In it, a Public Radio wrestling event is advertised in which Keillor "...wrestles his own soothing voice in a steel cage." ^[47]

Awards and other recognition[link]

• Keillor received a Medal for Spoken Language from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1990.^[48]
• In 1994, Keillor was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame.^[49]
• He received a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1999.^[48]
• "Welcome to Minnesota" markers in interstate rest areas near the state's borders include statements such as "Like its neighbors, the thirty-second state grew as a collection of small farm communities, many settled by immigrants from Scandinavia and Germany. Two of the nation's favorite fictional small towns -- Sinclair Lewis's Gopher Prairie and Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon -- reflect that heritage."^[50]
• In 2007, The Moth, a NYC-based not-for-profit storytelling organization, awarded Garrison Keillor the first The Moth Award - Honoring the Art of the Raconteur at the annual Moth Ball.^[51]
• In September 2007, Keillor was awarded the 2007 John Steinbeck Award, given to artists who capture "the spirit of Steinbeck's empathy, commitment to democratic values, and belief in the dignity of the common man."^[52]
• Keillor received a Grammy Award in 1988 for his recording of Lake Wobegon Days.^[48]
• He has also received two CableACE Awards and a George Foster Peabody Award.^[48]

Bibliography[link]

Keillor's work in print includes:

Lake Wobegon[link]

• Lake Wobegon Days (1985), ISBN 0-14-013161-2; a recorded version of this won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Album in 1988
• Leaving Home (1987; collection of Lake Wobegon stories), ISBN 0-670-81976-X
• We Are Still Married (1989; collection including some Lake Wobegon stories), ISBN 0-670-82647-2
• Wobegon Boy (1997), ISBN 0-670-87807-3
• Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 (2001), ISBN 0-571-21014-7
• In Search of Lake Wobegon (Photographs by Richard Olsenius, 2001), ISBN 0-670-03057-8
• Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon (2007), ISBN 0-670-06356-8
• Liberty: A Novel of Lake Wobegon (2008), ISBN 0-670-01991-7
• Life among the Lutherans (2009), ISBN 978-0-8066-7061-4
• Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance (2009), ISBN 978-0-670-02109-3

Other[link]

• Happy to Be Here (1981), ISBN 0-06-811201-7
• WLT: A Radio Romance, (1991), ISBN 0-670-81857-7
• A Visit to Mark Twain's House audio (1992), ISBN 0-942110-82-X
• The Book of Guys (1993), ISBN 0-670-84943-X
• The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (with Jenny Lind Nilsson, 1996), ISBN 0-7868-1250-8
• Me, by Jimmy "Big Boy" Valente (1999), ISBN 0-670-88796-X
• Good Poems (2002), ISBN 0-670-03126-7
• Love Me (2003), ISBN 0-670-03246-8
• Homegrown Democrat (2004), ISBN 0-670-03365-0
• Good Poems for Hard Times (2005), ISBN 0-670-03436-3
• Daddy's Girl (2005), ISBN 978-1-4231-0514-5
• 77 Love Sonnets (2009), ISBN 0-14-311527-8
• A Christmas Blizzard (2009), ISBN 978-0-670-02136-9
• Good Poems, American Places (2011), ISBN 0-670-02254-3

[edit] Contributions to The New Yorker

See also[link]

• A Prairie Home Companion

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Garrison Keillor

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Garrison Keillor

• Garrison Keillor at the Internet Movie Database
• A Prairie Home Companion radio website Garrison Keillor's public radio show
• A Prairie Home Companion movie website The movie written by Garrison Keillor and directed by Robert Altman
• Minnesota Zen Master - a detailed profile of Garrison Keillor, published in The Guardian, March 6, 2004.
• Kingdom of the Frown - A feature article from The Reykjavík Grapevine on Garrison Keillor
• At Home With Garrison Keillor: Where All the Rooms Are Above Average New York Times June 1, 2006
• Garrison Keillor Charlie Rose interviews
• Garrison Keillor at City Arts & Lecture on Fora.tv
• An interview with Garrison Keillor (www.everydayyeah.com)
• Garrison Keillor - The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes PBS American Masters
• Speech by Keillor at Concordia University February 15, 2011

• Works by or about Garrison Keillor in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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