That Time of Year by Garrison Keillor

Author:Garrison Keillor
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781951627706
Publisher: Arcade
Published: 2020-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

The Hopeful Gospel Quartet, Robin, Linda, Kate, GK.

I loved my house on Goodrich and wish I had held on to it. Minnie Pearl came up from Nashville with her husband, Henry Cannon, and did her act on the show (Brother went in and applied for a job and the man said, “We can start you at thirty dollars a week and in five years you can be earning five hundred.” And Brother, he says, “I’ll be back in five years.” ) and she sat on that front porch with a bunch of us and reminisced about her friend Hank Williams, the saddest man she ever knew, drunk, dosed with morphine, dead at 29 in the back seat of a car heading for Canton, Ohio, and she recalled when Red Foley sang “Old Shep” and then introduced his guitarist Mr. Chester Atkins, who played “Maggie,” and afterward Minnie walked up and kissed him and said, “You’re a wonderful musician, you’re just what we’ve been needing around here.” Her face shone as she told stories. She was a shining presence. Comedy was only part of it: she loved people with her whole heart, and that was the heart of her act—she was the happiest person on stage that you ever saw in your life, and she told those jokes so well you almost forgot how old they were, and nobody ever looked at you with so much joy as Minnie did, except maybe your grandma if you were lucky.

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