Prairie Home Cemetery is an old area cemetery located in Moorhead, Minnesota on South 8th St. It is the origin of the name for the long-running radio show A Prairie Home Companion.
Famous quotes containing the words prairie, home and/or cemetery:
“To the cry of “follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land,” Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stampede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.”
—For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“You may be used to a day that includes answering eleven phone calls, attending two meetings, and writing three reports; when you are at home with an infant you will feel you have accomplished quite a lot if you have a shower and a sit-down meal in the same day.”
—Anne C. Weisberg (20th century)
“I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)