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Lum and Abner
Randal L. Hall
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Description for Lum and Abner
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. This work explains the history and importance of the program, its creators, and its national audience. Num Pages: 248 pages, 14 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APWD; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 549.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813124698
SKU
V9780813124698
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About Randal L. Hall
Randal L. Hall, managing editor of the Journal of Southern History at Rice University, is the author of William Louis Poteat: A Leader of the Progressive-Era South.
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