Lepus, Every bio I have ever seen says Keillor's family was from Anoka & that he grew up there. Where did you get that he's from Brooklyn Park?

Rustic, wasn't Red Barn a chain of Hamburger joints? I think they got pushed out by the big chains. There was one near 50th & France S. that's not there anymore. As to what's on Highway 65, some of those numbered roads don't follow the same routes they used to. US 10 has been moved for sure. Parts of Central that were 65 might not be anymore; I get confused around there all the time. My sister moved from Spring Lake Park to Hamm Lake a year ago. (Talk about urban sprawl from 83rd to 150th!) She was right near the 65, 10, University Ave. Central Ave stuff. It was different every time I was there with the traffic worse all the time. I doubt I will ever go to Northtown again.

I posted earlier about some factual information I thought Guest had wrong. Many people have said they do not care, but no one was challenging the actual events. I don't much care about the opinion of someone who does not listen to the show & wants a forum to complain in. I do care that people who like the show may be led into believing there are some events that just did not happen.

Yes he dumped Margaret Moos for another woman. I make no excuses for him. She was not younger, however. I have yet to see any evidence, rather than assertions, of child abandonment. And I have checked the Star/Trib web site where I did find a breif mention of Moos & Keillor.

Keillor has a love/hate relationship with the press. Big deal, what star wouldn't? His personal life became more public than he wanted it to be. It got too hot so he left town. I'll post a Keillor quote at the end.

The Twin Cities are like urban areas all over the US. Urban sprawl has turned small towns into suburbs all over the country. I was in High School there 1968-1972. At the time the biggest school districts population wise outside of Mpls & St. Paul were probably Bloomington and Robbinsdale. They were the only suburban districts at the time with more than one high school. I believe that if Anoka-Hennepin is now the largest district, it must be that it is geographically much larger than the inner ring districts & the urban sprawl has driven the population up.

I was not in Minnesota in the 1950's, but I'd bet even western parts of Bloomington were still pretty rural then. Eden Prarie still was when I worked on the Northrup King experimental farm in 1970-72.