A book forty years in the making! To celebrate our fortieth anniversary The Nutty Nut News Network is proud to announce the publication of a FREE ebook!

FROM SMALL ACORNS:

FORTY YEARS OF THE NUTTY NUT NEWS NETWORK

By Mike David and Dean McKeown

Spanning the first forty years of The Nutty Nut News Network, From Small Acorns: Forty Years of The Nutty Nut News Network, has over two hundred and fifty pages and is split into three parts.

Part One details the formation and early years of The Nutty Nut News Network and features an interview with Nutty Nut News Network founder Guido Cipriani and co-founder Mike David's memories of Guido and those early years.

Part Two features transcripts from some of our most popular interviews with Sons of the Desert and stars from the golden age of cinema, many of whom had links to Laurel and Hardy, Hal Roach Studios and Our Gang, such as Jean Darling, Payne Johnson, Felix Knight, Henry Brandon and Jacqueline White.  Also featured for the first time is an informative interview Mike David conducted with silent screen star Harold Pavey.

Part Three covers the online years of The Nutty Nut News Network and includes a look back at some of the news stories we have featured over the years.

This ebook is dedicated to the man who conceived The Nutty Nut News Network, Mr Guido Cipriani, and is offered freely in keeping with Guido's desire for Sons everywhere to have the opportunity to keep in touch and enjoy the sharing of material related to Stan and Ollie.

This free ebook is offered in PDF format and is just under 9MB in size, the free ebook will be emailed so please ensure your mail box can receive a file of this size and that your digital device, computer etc. can open Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

We aim to email the ebook to you within 24 hours.

Send your email address to nuttynutnewsnetwork@gmail.com to get your FREE copy today!

NEW WEBSITE

'A Lot of Fun Writers, a blog dedicated to researching and sharing some of the unheard stories of the many talented people who worked as gag and story writers at Hal Roach Studios.'

For further information please visit https://roach-writers.blogspot.com

24th International Convention:  San Diego 2026

San Diego has been chosen as the recipient city of the 2026, 24th International Sons of the Desert convention! It will be held at the Legacy Hotel, Resort and Spa from Sunday, June 21, 2026 till Thursday, June 25, 2026.

More details to follow from The Saps at Sea Tent of San Diego

Bowler Dessert Online

2025 Calendar

For further information please visit https://www.bowlerdessert.com

Bernie Hogya writes:

Major Announcement (To us anyway)! Our book—five years in the making—is coming this fall from Schiffer Publishing.

"Collecting Laurel & Hardy," an impressive 9"x12" 300-page hardcover tome, combines more than 1,000 full-color photos of artefacts and memorabilia with film history, fun stories, and painstaking research on every item featured in the book.

A feast for the eyes and another fine mess for the soul. It's a virtual museum in print!

Autographs, posters, toys, dolls, games, trading cards, comic books, costumes, props and anything you can think of—the rarest of the rare with many items having never been seen before!

"Collecting Laurel & Hardy" has been written and compiled by two of the world's foremost authorities on the subject. A must-have for any fan of Laurel and Hardy, film memorabilia or classic Hollywood. With a Foreword by legendary film critic and historian Leonard Maltin.

Available for pre-order from anyplace you buy books—local, regional, national, and international.

Check out www.collectinglaurelandhardy.com for more information.

2023 seen The Nutty Nut News Network celebrate its 40th anniversary.

The Nutty Nut News Network Show was a long running audiotape series of Laurel and Hardy related material conceived by the late Guido Cipriani, Grand Sheik of the From Soup to Nuts Tent in Norwich, Connecticut, USA. The show was established as a way for all members of the Sons of the Desert to keep in touch since, when the series began in 1983, there was no worldwide web as we know it today.

Speaking to Steve Wichrowski Jr. at the 1986 Valley Forge International Convention Guido Cipriani said:

'The first show I mailed out twenty-five tapes, three months later I mailed out another fifty! What I did was I put on the tape that I was looking for help and I asked other Tents to send a message on tape. That’s the way the thing got started.'

In 2005 The Nutty Nut News Network moved online to continue to offer this audio material freely to all fans of Laurel and Hardy whilst preserving it for future generations.

1983-2023