Remembering Gumby

No more "out of sight, out of mind." When I read that Art Clokey, Gumby's creator, had died, I could see that beloved little green guy (Gumby, not Art), hear his high little voice, and smell the rubbery fragrance of my bendable old friend.  (Wish I was still that limber).  What a great show.   He happily took what ever life threw at him with sweet Polky by his side.


 I didn't get acquainted with Clokey's other creation, Davey and Goliath (was he the first claymationator?) until I married a fan.

  Davey and Goliath were a couple of adventurers sponsored by the Lutheran Church Alot of American kids got their early moral lessons from these two "scamps," (yeah, folks talked like that.)

Here's one in honor of Martin Luther King Day coming up next Monday. Hokie???? Of course, but there are worse things in the world!