Well, I loved looking through the travel links. I read about the Alaskan cruise from your essay this fall, pre-election. I believe it was just after our "Fair Gov" stepped onto the national stage. You spoke of waiting out the campaign in the Hinterlands.

Have you ever thought of doing the S.E. Ak, State Fair? Haines would be a most welcoming summer performance date. I think you'd love the famed Chilkat Performing Arts Center. It's like a mini Town Hall. Consider it?

Also, I see the long awaited Sonnets volume has been released. Hope to purchase it soon Sir. Can hardly wait.

My wife and I were there as well, on our honeymoon (fourteen years after we were married), and nearly ten years from the first PHC we saw live in Spokane, Washington. Seems PHC has been a part of our lives and our marriage and has always been a good thing. Thank you Mr. Keillor.

I was tickled by Elvis Costello's bits on this episode. I was most excited to hear the rhyming of 'Ypsilanti' with 'panties' in one of his delish little numbers. There are Eastern Michigan University alumni (Ypsilanti,. MI) gasping in secretive pleasure everywhere:).
Praise Buttermilk biscuits & the sanity this brings to me when I am working late in the classroom! NPR is one indulgence we arent blocked from in public schools!