Scrapbook of live radio shows from the cast and crew of A prairie home companion during their 1981 and 1982 tour of the United States, including performances by the Butch Thompson Trio, Robin and Linda Williams, the Klezmer Concervatory Band, the Odessa Balalaikas, and Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeco Band.

The Tufa have lived in the mountains of East Tennessee for as long as anyone can imagine. Their history is enigmatic and long forgotten. When Bronwyn Hyatt, who is of Tufa decent, returns from Iraq wounded, she is like a different person. She has lost touch with her people's traditions, and omens of tragedy hang over her every step.

At the age of ten, Liza Barton shot her mother in their New Jersey home while trying to protect her from her violent stepfather. Despite her stepfather's claim that the shooting was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident. Trying to erase every trace of Liza's past, her adoptive parents changed Liza's name to Celia. At the age of twenty-eight, she married a sixty-year-old widower, and they had a son. Before their marriage,...