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2016 Blashfield Address

Photo courtesy of Prairie Home Productions, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo courtesy of Prairie Home Productions, via Wikimedia Commons

The 2016 Blashfield Address, entitled “My Legacy, the Limerick,” was delivered  by Garrison Keillor at the Ceremonial on May 18, 2016.  Mr Keillor, host of A Prairie Home Companion and author of The Writer’s Almanac, won the Medal for Spoken Language in 1990.  He was elected to membership in 2001.