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Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties. By Sara K. Eskridge. (University of Missouri Press, 2018, Pp. 242) Reviewed by Tim G. Nutt Some of the most fondly remembered television shows in syndication today are the rural comedies which aired on the Columbia Broad-casting System (CBS) during the mid-late 1960s. In Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties, Sara … [Read more...] about Book Review. Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties
Zero the Hero; or, From Factory Worker to Superhero in Sixty Days By Phillip Howerton The orientation for my new job consisted of the supervisor handing me a hardhat, telling me I was required to wear white, and showing me how to operate the time clock. At 4:30 the next morning, March 4, 1984, I began my first day of work at Mid-America Dairymen in Lebanon, Missouri. … [Read more...] about Zero the Hero; or, From Factory Worker to Superhero in Sixty Days
Queen of the Hillbillies: Writings of May Kennedy McCord. By May Kennedy McCord. Edited by Patti McCord and Kristene Sutliff. (University of Arkansas Press, 2022, Pp. 336) Reviewed by Leigh Adams May Kennedy McCord may never have written her own book, but her granddaughter Patti McCord and Missouri State University emeritus professor Kristene Sutliff have edited a … [Read more...] about Book Review. Queen of the Hillbillies: Writings of May Kennedy McCord
Those Little Brown Cows Once upon a time we milked little brown cows, rather than big black and white ones. When I was a small boy in the early 1950s, docile, doe-eyed Jerseys dominated Ozarks pastures, joined by that other Channel Island breed, Guernseys with their big, white spots on coats of amber brown. Both produced gallons of rich yellow milk that was markedly … [Read more...] about Four Essays by Jim Hamilton