A resolution congratulating "A Prairie Home Companion" on its 40 years of engaging, humorous, and quality radio programming.

Whereas, for 40 years, A Prairie Home Companion has brought listeners from around the country to the fantastic town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota;

Whereas, in 2014, A Prairie Home Companion is a 2 hour radio variety program performed live that airs on Saturday afternoons ;

Whereas over 600 radio stations carry A Prairie Home Companion to 4,000,000 listeners each week;

Whereas A Prairie Home Companion was created by and is hosted by a Grammy Award winner who received the award in 1998 for Lake Wobegon Days;

Whereas 12 people were in the audience for the first broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion on July 6, 1974, at the Janet Wallace Auditorium at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota;

Whereas, in 2014, A Prairie Home Companion is broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, a historic building that is over 100 years old and was named after United States citizen and author F. Scott Fitzgerald;

Whereas A Prairie Home Companion has won a Peabody Award;

Whereas A Prairie Home Companion has broadcast from Canada, Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, Iceland, and nearly every State in the United States;

Whereas A Prairie Home Companion inspired a movie by the same name, which itself won 4 international awards; and

Whereas in Lake Wobegon all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average: Now, therefore, be it