Category: Wit and Wisdom

Pine Ridge “newspaper” from Spring 1936.

Adventures in Good Eating. A Duncan Hines Book. Good Eating Places Along the Highways of America.

The radio station storyline actually ran two different times, with slight variations. The first one began on April 7, 1947. Lum and Abner recycled the plot beginning on February 17, 1953.

This episode of Cedric and Abner working a crossword puzzle tickles me. I decided to try to recreate the crossword puzzle they are working but discovered that it’s harder than one might think.

Lum fancied himself a philosopher and was able to come up with an ol’ Ed’ards sayin’ appropriate for just about any circumstance.

This little booklet was published in about 1932, early in the series, before the characters were fully developed.

Years ago I was part of a Yahoo group of Lum and Abner fans. Several of us tried our hands at a writing a series of “fan fiction” episodes based on the premise that the old fellows had just got their first computer. I wrote Episode 5, in which Grandpap reads his email–out loud, of course–the way he always read the Almanac.

“Accordin’ to the almanac” tidbits as shared by Grandpappy Spears.