That's right, 35n. Well, I don't know. My Dad was violently attacked for holding Appalachian people and family members up to ridicule in his writing. Being one of those family members I didn't and don't think that was the intent or the right reading. I once expressly gave him permission to write anything he wanted to about anything having to do with me. I had no illusions about how that might've gone, either, but was saved from disgrace by not being a very interesting subject.
   On the contrary, I think my father's seriousness about representing a particular heritage actually weakened his writing in some places, bogged it down in not wanting to be misunderstood by anyone, in that way. So, I still think Keillor's world is his own mythology, nothing anyone has to necesarily feel reflects on them well or poorly.