Honoring an Early TV Star

“Son, change that channel, Herb Shriner is about to come on.” (BTW: Some readers may have served, like me in my childhood years, as a manual TV channel-changer.) This column will introduce a lesser-known early TV humorist/ comedian/musician—Herb Shriner.

Herb Shriner was born in Ohio, but his family moved across the state line to Indiana in his early years. There he quickly became an adopted and be…