Garrison Keillor recites poetry at the 11th Annual National Book Festival on the National Mall on September 25. An estimated 200,000 book-lovers gathered for the two-day Library of Congress sponsored event. "A Prairie Home Companion" became a live radio broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio in 1974. Keillor also hosts the daily radio show "The Writer's Almanac," during which he reads poems and recounts the day in history.
Noted author, historian David McCullough at the National Book Festival. (Sept. 25, 2011)
Daredevil engineer Dave Megerle attaches ropes to te top of the Washington Monument on Sept. 27 from which four people will rappel down the sides to survey the extent of damage sustained to the monument from the August 23 earthquake.
