Sound effects artist Fred Newman creates sound during a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion from Macalester College in St. Paul, July 2015. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Jonathunder.

Prairie Home Companion host Chris Thile reads audience members' greetings during a broadcast at the Fitzgerald Theater in January 2016. Thile hosted the show after Garrison Keillor's departure. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Jonathunder.

Sound effects artist Tom Keith, voice actors Tim Russell and Sue Scott, and Garrison Keillor perform during a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion from Lanesboro, Minnesota, in June 2007. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Jonathunder.

Longtime house pianist and music director Richard Dworsky plays during a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion at Macalester College in St. Paul, July 2015. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Jonathunder.

An advertisement for Powdermilk Biscuits (undated), one of A Prairie Home Companion’s many fictional sponsors.

Sound engineer and sound effects man Tom Keith and Lynne Cruise mix sound during a performance of A Prairie Home Companion at the Fitzgerald Theater, ca. 1985.

A poster advertising A Prairie Home Companion band members and several fictional sponsors, ca. 1970s.

Garrison Keillor reads a Prairie Home Companion script before a live show at Macalester College, 2015. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Jonathunder.

A Prairie Home Companion’s founder and longtime host, Garrison Keillor. Photograph by Prairie Home Productions, 2009.