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Opinion
New Marlborough, Mass.
On a bright blue-gold October day, the leaves just turning, Garrison Keillor appeared at the Meeting House in this Berkshire town. For weeks there had been mutterings and protests: Why should the New Marlborough Village Association give a platform to a man who had been accused of “inappropriate behavior” two years ago and fired from Minnesota Public Radio?
True, his case had been minor compared with those of, say, Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose and #MeToo’s Great Satan, Harvey Weinstein. And it was never clear what Mr. Keillor’s offenses had been, or how bad. No matter—Mr. Keillor, 77, is enrolled among the sinners. The director of the Village Association threatened to resign unless the show was canceled. “Unfortunately,” one local woman wrote, “men of ego, hubris and entitlement continue to behave in such ways while being elevated in business and society with little consequence.”
Despite such complaints, the show went on. Some showed up to hear Mr. Keillor interviewed by the author Simon Winchester. They filled every pew in the former Congregational church. Mr. Winchester expected trouble. None came.
I sat in the rear. Instead of angry politics, we got something more interesting—90 minutes of Mr. Keillor’s muted Minnesota Zen, a comedic art form, contiguous to religion, that he invented a long time ago.
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