[Rufii]

Pigeon Forge was the home of Tom Anderson, editor of Farm and Ranch magazine and a conservative pundit and commentator in the 1960's and 1970's. In 1972, when Rep. John Schmitz (R-Calif.) ran for president as the American Party candidate, Anderson was his running mate.

The American Party established its headquarters in Pigeon Forge in 1973. Three years later, Anderson ran for president as its candidate but lost to Jimmy Carter.

[SharpRightTurn]

“Tom Anderson, editor of Farm and Ranch magazine”

Good memory, Rufii.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Tom Anderson, editor of Farm and Ranch magazine ***

As a teen in the early 1960s, we read his ARKANSAS FARMER magazine. he was a person who, in his editorials, called Martin Luther King, Martin Luther Coon.

The farm part of his magazine was good. His commentary on political things was a hoot.

He reminded me of a local character, now dead, who used to write long diatribes against local politics and post them in his store window on mail street so everyone in town could read them. No one took him seriously.