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Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio (New Directions in Southern History) - Hardcover

Book 4 of 33: New Directions in Southern History

Hall, Randal L.

 
9780813124698: Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio (New Directions in Southern History)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0813124697 ISBN 13: 9780813124698
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, 2007

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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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Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0813124697
ISBN 13 
9780813124698
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
280