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UPDATED JANUARY 8, 2012
Happy 2012!
To read our 2011
Christmas Gift,
"A Pine Ridge
Christmas Carol,"
CLICK HERE!
Our 2010 Christmas Gift is still
available if you CLICK HERE!
New Lum and Abner Song!
Longtime Lum and Abner fan Kurt Jensen has written
and recorded "Pine Ridge Bound," and you can read
about it and hear it if you CLICK HERE!
Lum and Abner Comic Strip in the
Columbia Journalism Review!
FirstArkansasNews.net was reviewed and a nice portion
of the article discusses the Lum and Abner comic strip!
CLICK HERE and be sure to click "Read more about
First Arkansas News" for the full article.
Lum and Abner® Meet Andy Griffith
By request, a 1989 article from an out-of-stock issue of
The Jot 'Em Down Journal has been reprinted for you in
the online Journal! CLICK HERE!
AUDIO JOT 'EM DOWN JOURNAL "VOLUME 2"
NOW AVAILABLE!
This service is designed for our blind friends. To read
more about this special product, please CLICK HERE.
Lum and Abner® comic strip
updates! Click here for the latest news!
Lum and Abner recently signed with The
Sentinel-Record (Hot Springs, Arkansas), The Standard
newspaper (Amity, Arkansas), The Saline Courier
(Benton, Arkansas), and continues to appear in The
Mena Star in Lum and Abner's home town! Click here
for the "Lum and Abner Comic Strip Group" on
Facebook!
Ralph Waldo Emerson III
We're sad to report the death of Mr. Emerson, the son of
Ralph Waldo Emerson II and Elsie Mae Emerson. The
Emersons were the composers of "Down on the Old
Party Line," the third and final theme song used on the
Lum and Abner radio series. Ralph III was a great friend
to the NLAS, and contributed information and photos to
our very last printed issue of The Jot 'Em Down Journal
(which is still available), the Summer 2007 issue. Mr.
Emerson had quite a career in broadcast audio, winning
an Emmy Award and developing one of the earliest
laugh track systems for live audio sweetening. We have
no other information on his death at this time, but wish
to offer condolences to the friends and family of Ralph
Waldo Emerson III.
PREVIOUSLY "SOLD OUT" BACK
ISSUES LOCATED AND FOR SALE!
53 DIFFERENT ISSUES (TOTAL)
AVAILABLE!
Click SALES and find out what is available in our series
of Jot 'Em Down Journal printed issues! The pages
showing covers and listing contents of the available
issues have been completed and are available to view
now. UPDATE: Some issues are close to selling out!
Lum and Abner® Festival Report!
The NLAS was pleased to participate in this June 3-4
event! To read more about it, check out our report by
clicking NEWS to read about it in our on-line Jot 'Em
Down Journal!
Howdy Lum and Abner® fans!
If you've been with us a while, you'll notice a change in
the appearance of our web site. The "wooden button"
navigation is being replaced with a simple system and
we're converting to a layout with mostly text in the left
column, photos and captions in the right. This should
make the site more accessible to our blind members. At
the same time, it will help our web master update things
more efficiently. He's a little slow and not very smart (are
ya, Cedric?) Not all pages have been updated yet, and
we appreciate your patience.
Try the navigation above! You're on the HOME page
now, of course. LINKS takes you to a page of links
relating to additional Lum and Abner® sites as well as
those of friends we have connected with. SALES will
help you find items we have for sale (check out our back
issues of The Jot 'Em Down Journal) to help us pay our
web-hosting fees. NEWS will take you to the online
version of The Jot 'Em Down Journal where we have
recent and archived articles. CONTACT takes you to an
e-mail address. COMICS takes you directly to the Lum
and Abner comic strip at FirstArkansasNews.net.
A CHANGE: We've removed the link to the "Mail Hack
Mail Sack" which was a type of forum. Why? Well, with
the Yahoo Lum and Abner group and Facebook being
able to offer more immediate chat, there didn't seem to
be a need for our page. If you want to read what was
archived there, please click here: MAIL HACK
Membership in the NLAS is FREE!
Just contact us!
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Lum and Abner played the Palace in Cleveland in 1936,
with their friend Jerry Hausner as emcee. Jerry played
several supporting roles on the radio program and his
wife Velma was secretary and assistant to "the boys"
for many years. What a show at the Palace!
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This is how Lum and Abner® looked in 1956
when their radio show started broadcasting in full
color. In fact, they were the only color radio
show on the air for many years.
NAH! Just checking to see
if you were paying attention! Ha!
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To visit the Lum and Abner comic strip at First
Arkansas News, click the link COMICS in the navigation
bar at the top or bottom of this page. There is a new
strip every Sunday as well as an OTR-style audio
version! Coffee mugs, tee shirts and mouse pads are
also available for sale.
Please note that the Lum and Abner comic strip is a
commercial venture and not a project of the National Lum
and Abner Society. It is a copyrighted publication of
FirstArkansasNews.net and is approved by the owners of
the trademark "Lum and Abner."
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