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UPDATED APRIL 25, 2012
Audio Jot 'Em Down Journal
Volume Three Now Available!

This service is designed for our blind friends. To
read more about this special product, pleas
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CLICK HERE
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April 2012: Lum
and Abner
Month!
NLAS Featured
on April 8 Show!
Tune in Same Time, Same Station
for Interviews and Rare Programs!
Click here to listen to the NLAS interview.
The NLAS was contacted for interviews and recordings
to be contributed to John and Larry Gassman's weekly
radio program, and you're in for a treat! For a listing of
program contents, times, radio stations and URLs,
please
CLICK HERE. We now have all the April shows
listed.

Lum and Abner Festival 2012!
Things are heating up in Mena, Arkansas for this year's
festival!
CLICK HERE for information on the 2012 Lum
and Abner Car, Truck and Motorcycle Show!

What's New?
Sorry folks! I've been busy with the Lum and Abner
comic strip and other freelance art jobs. I'll try to get
back here and update you soon! Meanwhile, Here is
some info on motels if you'd like to meet comic book
legend Nicola "Nick" Cuti who will be the guest of honor
of the Popeye Fanclub at the 2012 Popeye Picnic:
CLICK FOR NICK!

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!



Lum and Abner® comic strip
updates!
Click here for the latest news!
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.

45 DIFFERENT BACK ISSUES OF THE
JOT 'EM DOWN JOURNAL
ARE STILL
AVAILABLE - SOME ARE SELLING OUT!
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.
Some issues are in very low supply!

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 has been 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!
The Palace Theatre in Cleveland, 1936,
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!
A color image of Lum and Abner from a movie poster
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!
This is the logo panel of the Lum and Abner comic strip.
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."
A Lum and Abner comic strip mug from FirstArkansasNews.net
A Lum and Abner comic strip  tee shirt from FirstArkansasNews.net
A Lum and Abner comic strip mouse pad from FirstArkansasNews.net
Art: Lum and Abner painting by Donnie Pitchford saying
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Lum and Abner Associates
and is used by permission.
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The National Lum and Abner® Society logo was
designed by Bobb Lynes.

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