Lum and Abner : rural America and the golden age of radio
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Lum and Abner : rural America and the golden age of radio
（New directions in southern history / series editors, Peter S. Carmichael, Michele Gillespie, William A. Link）
University Press of Kentucky, c2007
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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.
Table of Contents
The Morgan Affair and Its Consequences
The Origins of Antimasonry
Beginnings in New York, 1827-1829
New York, 1830-1835
Wirt's Presidential Candidacy of 1832
Vermont, 1829-1836
The "Union" Ticket of 1832
Pennsylvania, 1834-1843
Massachusetts, 1828-1836
Coalition Politics in Rhode Island
Coalitions on the Periphery
The Elections of 1836 and 1840
The Blessed Spirit
by "Nielsen BookData"
