<p>Irvin S. Cobb was a beloved celebrity and jack-of-all-trades in early 20th-century America. Journalism humor writing acting . . . you name it he could do it. In the 1920 non-fiction comedy <em>The Abandoned Farmers</em> he describes his latest profession&mdash;farming. What could go wrong when a couple of city dwellers go back to the land to renovate an abandoned farm? A lot apparently. A trail-blazer in American agrarian humor <em>The Abandoned Farmers</em> is a gentle parody of the city-country divide.</p>