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Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio

Randal L. Hall
4.9/5 (34947 ratings)
Description:In the 1930s radio stations filled the airwaves with programs about rural Americans struggling through the Great Depression. One of the most popular of these shows was Lum and Abner, the brainchild of two young businessmen from Arkansas. Chester "Chet" Lauck and Norris "Tuffy" Goff based Pine Ridge, the community they created on the air, on the hamlet of Waters, Arkansas. The title characters, who are farmers, local officials, and keepers of the Jot 'Em Down Store, manage to entangle themselves in a variety of hilarious dilemmas. In "Lum and Abner: Rural America and the golden Age of Radio," historian Randal L. Hall contributes an extended introduction explaining the history and importance of the program, its creators, and its national audience and then presents a treasure trove of twenty-nine previously unavailable scripts from the show's earliest period.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio. To get started finding Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
276
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Release
2015
ISBN
0813156459

Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio

Randal L. Hall
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Description: In the 1930s radio stations filled the airwaves with programs about rural Americans struggling through the Great Depression. One of the most popular of these shows was Lum and Abner, the brainchild of two young businessmen from Arkansas. Chester "Chet" Lauck and Norris "Tuffy" Goff based Pine Ridge, the community they created on the air, on the hamlet of Waters, Arkansas. The title characters, who are farmers, local officials, and keepers of the Jot 'Em Down Store, manage to entangle themselves in a variety of hilarious dilemmas. In "Lum and Abner: Rural America and the golden Age of Radio," historian Randal L. Hall contributes an extended introduction explaining the history and importance of the program, its creators, and its national audience and then presents a treasure trove of twenty-nine previously unavailable scripts from the show's earliest period.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio. To get started finding Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
276
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Release
2015
ISBN
0813156459

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