03672nam 2200553Ia 450 991046025300332120200520144314.00-8166-7535-X(CKB)2670000000069691(EBL)635550(OCoLC)698116869(SSID)ssj0000472261(PQKBManifestationID)11318771(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000472261(PQKBWorkID)10434183(PQKB)10327799(MiAaPQ)EBC635550(Au-PeEL)EBL635550(CaPaEBR)ebr10440585(EXLCZ)99267000000006969120100409d2010 uy eengur|n|---|||||txtccrA porch sofa almanac[electronic resource] /Peter SmithMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20101 online resource (149 p.)"This is a book of short essays about small things. Most of them aired as commentaries on Minnesota Public Radio's Morning Edition with Cathy Wurzer"--Pref.0-8166-7232-6 Contents; Preface; Porch Sofas; Off to College: A Parental Spreadsheet; School Starts This Morning; We Want to Go Back, Too; In Praise of Small-Town Football; Conflicted; Autumn Golf; An Open Letter to the City of Hopkins; Hudson's Bay Blankets; Splitting Wood; The Menu Changes; Good Autumn Reads; Darn Packers Fans; Election Night Radio; No-Bleeping-Vember; Thanksgiving Road Game; A Thanksgiving Lesson; An Amusing Pastime; North Country Fashion Statement; Winter Wimps; Together Again for the Holidays; Sulking in a Winter Wonderland; A Christmas Shopping Memory; Now It Can Be ChristmasAlas, Poor TaurusDog Days in the Ice Fishing Shack; The Inscrutable Finn; Crows; Real World Valentine's Day; A Timeless Saga; Split-level Shack-whacky; Contemplating Gutter Gloves; Thinking Ill of the Literate; Jogging Again; Talk about Your Golf Drives; Cooking with Grandma; Are You with Us? Or Are You One of Them?; Planting Corn; A Little Frugality, Por Favor; Lilac Season; Meditation on a Green Minivan; They're Back; What's the Rush?; A Tiny Discrepancy; Is Ambivalence the Perfect Father's Day Gift?; Tacky, Tacky, Tacky; People Watching at Lake Calhoun; Little League. Big Problem.Thanks, MomMeditation on a Lawnmower; A Minnesota Must; On Finding a Bungee Cord; In Praise of Municipal Golf; Who Turned on the Air Conditioning?; Homegrown Tomatoes; Still Going Out for the Team; Start the State Fair without Me; A Fifties Flashback; Acorns and Toyotas; 4 SaleFor Peter Smith, the assignment from Minnesota Public Radio was simple: try to do something about Minnesota . So he began exploring the simple, everyday Minnesota things he came across and sharing them with listeners each Tuesday morning. The result is a hilarious, often wry, and always remarkable portrait of everyday life in the Land of 10,000 Lakes that will resonate with Minnesotans from the state's biggest cities to its smallest towns. A Porch Sofa Almanac is the first collection of Smith's essays for MPR-stories that keep close to the ground and reflect on the common experiences of being American essaysMinnesotaAnecdotesElectronic books.American essays.977.6Smith Peter1946 Nov. 19-890036Minnesota Public Radio.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460253003321A porch sofa almanac1988484UNINA