My Back to the Soil or, Farewell to Farms

152 pp. Illustrated by Jack Markow. "Pay heed... to the grim words of that old rural character, Colonel Stoopnagle. He's a man who turned a lavish Connecticut villa into a run-down red barn. He's a man who went insane looking for a corner in a silo. His travesty on farms, farmers, and farmer's daughters is a book to end all back-to-the-farm movements. You will find more horse laughs than chicken-cackles in it, and it is a perfect book with which to curl up in a hayloft." "Stoopnagle and Budd were a popular radio comedy team of the 1930s, who are sometimes cited as forerunners of the Bob and Ray style of radio comedy. Along with Raymond Knight (The Cuckoo Hour), they were radio's first satirists. Musician Wilbur Budd Hulick and former broker-lumberman Frederick Chase Taylor (1897-1950) were both announcers at Buffalo station WMAK (now WBEN) in 1930. The great-grandson of British-born Aaron Lovecraft of Rochester, New York, Taylor was a first cousin of author H. P. Lovecraft."