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00:49Sunday afternoon on Waltons Mountain was a time of quiet contemplation. We took it easy
01:14or else work to the slower pace and enjoyed a brief respite from the cares that beset
01:19us during the week. After we came home from church and had dinner, we permitted ourselves
01:25the luxury of play and relaxation. I remember one such Sunday in August.
01:32Mama, will you put a vinegar rinse over my hair?
01:55Please. Please.
01:56Please. Close your eyes.
02:03Too much washing takes out all the natural oils.
02:06At her age, Mary Ellen's got more natural oils than she knows what to do with.
02:13Where in the land of ghosts did this swatch come from?
02:17That's the dress John gave me after Ann was born.
02:20That's right. It got too snug when Jim Bob was on the way and split.
02:25My, wasn't he one big healthy baby.
02:27All my babies were healthy.
02:29Mama, what makes some babies bigger than others?
02:32Oh, inheritance. Size of the mother and father. The mother eats when she's pregnant.
02:38It's got nothing to do with it. It's what the good Lord intends.
02:45How's this look?
02:48Hey, pretty snazzy, but isn't it going to go stale before the county fair?
02:51Oh, this is just a sample. Try out Aunt Polly's old recipe.
02:54I'm going to make another one for the fair.
02:56I didn't have any almond flavor in though. Remind me next time we go to the store.
03:01Mama, how would I look with bobbed hair?
03:04Different.
03:06Oh, Mama.
03:09Stop right there.
03:11Get back.
03:14Stop.
03:19Get him out of here.
03:22Come on, get Rover and Penn.
03:24Time to heal. He heals better than reckless does.
03:27That's not saying much. Come on.
03:29Come on, Rover.
03:31Come on, Rover. Come on. Get going.
03:39I have a chance to make a dollar off him.
03:41How's that, son?
03:43Well, Mr. Godsey says nobody will donate a pig for the greased pig contest.
03:47But they still want to have it anyway. Just not give the pig away.
03:50That's an easy way to make a dollar.
03:52It won't hurt Rover being the greased pig, will it, Daddy?
03:54No. I doubt anybody will catch him, much less throw him.
03:58Didn't let Ben yells Rover.
04:00He sure grew. Still can't believe that Yancey would just give him to me.
04:06Yeah, well, what was it exactly that Yancey said, son?
04:10Well, he said he was walking through the woods and he saw this little pig standing there like it was lost and it sort of followed him home.
04:17Yeah, and he doesn't have any need for a pig and we're the first place he passed, so.
04:20Ben, what are you planning to do with the dollar that you get for the use of Rover there?
04:24Well, I was wondering. Daddy, do you reckon I can get a girl pig for a dollar?
04:28Might be able to get a runt for about a dollar.
04:30I never thought I'd have a son in the hog business.
04:33And about how many come in a litter?
04:35Six and twelve, sometimes more.
04:37And if they grow up as fast as Rover did, by next year they'd have...
04:41I guess the depression would be over for Ben Walton, wouldn't it?
04:46Look at that.
04:56You have such courtly manners, Oscar.
04:58So like you, dear Pop.
05:01Not good manners to snoop when guests are coming. Jason, turn off the radio.
05:05Who's the man out there, Mama?
05:07I don't know. I haven't seen him yet.
05:14Miss Mamie and Miss Emily, what a pleasant surprise. Come on in.
05:18We have a surprise for you, Olivia.
05:23He made his promise not to tell.
05:31It's been a long time, Olivia.
05:35Oscar Cockrell! My goodness!
05:40Olivia, you're more beautiful now than you were as a girl.
05:43Oh, I didn't know you knew Mr. Cockrell.
05:46Oh, his father was a lawyer, bosom friend of our father, the judge.
05:50Let me introduce you to my family. This is John, our oldest, named after his father.
05:54John, Oscar Cockrell.
05:56And you know John's mother.
05:58And this is our next, Jason.
06:00Glad to meet you, sir.
06:01And Aaron.
06:02Hi.
06:04Imagine that. You with three children.
06:08Three? I've got seven.
06:10I don't believe it.
06:12You'd believe it if you were over here at supper time.
06:14Mary Ellen!
06:15Mama, my hair!
06:17Nobody came to look at your hair. Come on.
06:22Mary Ellen, this is Mr. Cockrell.
06:25Mary Ellen, this is Mr. Cockrell.
06:27Hi.
06:30Such a beauty. She favors you, Olivia.
06:34Who do I favor?
06:35Oh, here, let me see.
06:37This is Elizabeth, our youngest.
06:39Oh, you don't favor anybody. You're just plain beautiful.
06:41When her face is clean.
06:43Miss Emily! Miss Amy!
06:45John, look who's here. Oscar Cockrell.
06:48Good to see you after all these years, John.
06:50Oscar, what brings you to Blue Ridge?
06:52He's running for the legislature from Jefferson County.
06:55And he's permitting us the pleasure of his company.
06:58While he campaigns in our district.
07:00Isn't that exciting?
07:02Having a member of the legislature practically in the family.
07:05Don't count on that, Miss Amy.
07:07My speeches haven't been going over all that well.
07:11You deliver such lovely speeches.
07:14Makes me wish I could vote twice.
07:16Well, if Papa were running, things you could have.
07:19Could have what, Mamie?
07:20Oh, now, sister.
07:21If you're going to engage in conversation, you must pay attention.
07:26Oh.
07:29Oscar, have you met these two boys of mine?
07:32You've probably met the rest of them.
07:33This is Jim Bob and this is Ben.
07:35Mr. Cockrell used to be a boyhood friend of mine.
07:37Mr. Cockrell was a suitor of your dear mother's.
07:39Before she married your father.
07:41Oh, now, that goes without saying.
07:45Well, they were rivals for your mother's hand.
07:48Oh, no, nothing like that, really.
07:50I never had a chance, I'm sorry to say.
07:55Daddy, can we go out now?
07:57Yes, son, go ahead.
07:58Scoot.
07:59Nice meeting you.
08:00Come on in, ladies, come on in.
08:02Oscar, have a seat.
08:04Grandma, put on the coffee.
08:07Heels too big.
08:08I'm working on her.
08:11Grandpa, aren't you going to go inside?
08:13No, I'd sooner sit here and whittle than listen to a politician sound off.
08:17Olivia, you're a splendid cook.
08:26She ought to be, she sure gets enough practice.
08:28Livvy's entering a cake like that in the state fair.
08:31Grandma's entering a patchwork quilt.
08:33I'm to be one of the judges, so they tell me.
08:36My sister and I are entering our Jenny.
08:38It's made from a secret recipe.
08:41Now, ladies, don't you think you're using a little undue influence?
08:45What, John?
08:46What, John? I don't know what you mean.
08:49I purely love John Walton, always teasing.
08:54Are you married, Oscar?
08:56Oh, yes, indeed.
08:57You remember Dodie Bowen?
08:59Bowen's, over by Carter Bridge.
09:01Yeah, she was, is quite a bit younger than the rest of us.
09:06How many children you have, Oscar?
09:08We haven't been blessed.
09:12Mrs. Cockrell is in Europe at present.
09:15She's visiting the Mediterranean countries.
09:17You know, John Keats particularly loved Italy. He died there.
09:20Oscar, John boy's going to be a writer.
09:23One of these days, we're all going to be quoting him.
09:27Thank you, Miss Mamie.
09:28A writer?
09:29Well, young man, perhaps we'd better have a talk about your future.
09:33Well, I think all this fame's a little early right now.
09:35I'd better concentrate on getting to college first.
09:38Oh, that'll be quite an undertaking. Depression times.
09:41Such a large family, perhaps I could...
09:43You know, I just reckon one step at a time is the best way for me.
09:48Well, that's good thinking.
09:50That's my theory, one step at a time.
09:53Mine too.
09:54My next step ought to be out to the bar and I got some chores to finish up.
09:58Nice to meet you.
09:59Thank you, nice to meet you.
10:00As much as I hate to leave, I think we'd all better be going.
10:03Famous politician has so many demands.
10:06On his time, don't you know?
10:08Please, I'm not famous and I don't even know if I'm a politician.
10:11I'm just trying my wings out here.
10:13On your show, take Jefferson County, Oscar.
10:17Thank you, John.
10:18It was lovely.
10:20It was a nice time.
10:22Thank you. Come back any time.
10:23Oscar, it's been a real pleasure.
10:25You're always welcome here, Oscar. You know that.
10:27Come back any time.
10:28Thank you, John.
10:29Goodbye.
10:30Come on, ladies, I'll help you in the car.
10:31Bye-bye, Oscar.
10:32Okay, see you.
10:34Goodbye, Uncle.
10:35Come on back.
10:36Bye, Oscar.
10:49Bye-bye.
10:52Oscar's turned out to be a good-looking man.
10:56If you'd been married to a politician, you'd play the cards right.
10:59I played the cards right.
11:02I thought you Baptists weren't allowed to play cards.
11:08Good luck.
11:20Please go to sleep, Mariela. I'm sleepy.
11:24Did GW say he liked it better short?
11:26Who cares what GW thinks?
11:28Someone I know whose initials are M-E-W.
11:39Miss Emily said they were rivals for Mama's hand.
11:42What's a rival?
11:43Who?
11:44Daddy and Mr. Cockrell.
11:45Mr. Cockrell said they weren't.
11:48I wonder if he ever kissed her.
11:50I said, what's a rival?
11:52Mama wouldn't do a thing like that.
11:54But she wasn't Mama then. She was just a girl like us.
11:57Well, I wouldn't let any old boy kiss me.
12:00Me either.
12:01Oh, wouldn't you?
12:02What if you were on a deserted island and he played his ukulele for you?
12:06And then he decided to put his arm around you and then...
12:09Well, just let him try it. He'll wish he hadn't.
12:11Nobody ever listens.
12:29What you doing?
12:31What am I usually doing?
12:33You know, if you're not careful, you might get good at that.
12:36Listen to this. This is fantastic.
12:38Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
12:42It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence whether there be a man behind it or no.
12:47Isn't that something?
12:48That's wonderful.
12:49Good, good. I wrote that.
12:53That Mr. Cockrell is rich, isn't he?
12:57Well, you've got to have money to get to the legislature.
13:00Grandpa says he inherited his.
13:02Abe Lincoln was poor.
13:05I reckon it must have been different in those days.
13:07I guess so.
13:10You reckon Daddy liked having Mr. Cockrell come by to see Mama?
13:13He came by to see them both, Jason.
13:15Yeah, but mostly Mama.
13:17I'm fed, Jason.
13:19Good night, Jason.
13:20Good night, John.
13:21Good night, Mama.
13:22Good night.
13:24You writing another story?
13:26I'm just making some notes.
13:28What are you looking at me like that for?
13:30You sure are beautiful.
13:31John boy, what a nice thing for you to say.
13:35You know, when Mr. Cockrell was here today, I was looking at you. It was like I suddenly saw you.
13:40You see me every day.
13:42That's what I mean. It was funny to be looking at you at the same time as someone who knew you before I was even born.
13:47You make me sound like I'm 100 years old.
13:49That just made me wonder what you must have been like as a girl.
13:52I was an ugly duckling.
13:54You?
13:55Well, I felt like one anyway.
13:57Skinny and shy and people were always teasing me about my red hair.
14:01I love your red hair.
14:02So do I. Now.
14:04Mama, are you happy with your life here?
14:06Of course I'm happy.
14:08I've got everything in the world to make me happy.
14:12Don't you ever wonder what it would have been like if you'd married someone else?
14:17Oh, John boy, everybody has a secret part of themselves.
14:21A place where all their dreams live.
14:23Of course, I sometimes wonder what big cities are like or what it would be like to wear store-bought clothes instead of making them.
14:32But if I had all that, I wouldn't have all of you.
14:35I guess what I'm really asking is if we're enough.
14:38I reckon I have more than most people dream of.
14:41Well, I'll tell you one thing. I'd sure hate never to have known you.
14:44Don't stay up too late.
14:46Good night, Mama.
14:48I'd never really thought about my mother and father as being anything but married to each other.
14:53And then today, I met a man who, under different circumstances, might have been my father.
15:08Why are you doing that?
15:10I don't know.
15:13Why are you doing that?
15:15Could have him looking good for the fair tomorrow.
15:17Rover's gonna be the star.
15:19That pig doesn't look like any star I ever saw.
15:22Don't call him a pig. Thinks he's a dog.
15:25When's Rover gonna have puppies?
15:27Pigs don't have puppies. They have little pigs.
15:31Why?
15:32Because. That's why.
15:34Oh.
15:36He just knows.
15:38I'm getting it.
15:54It's about another five minutes.
15:57What's the first prize for cakes?
16:00Five dollars.
16:03What's the first prize for cakes?
16:05Five dollars. They tell me.
16:08Yeah. What are you gonna do with it if you win?
16:12Oh, I thought I'd take me a trip to Europe.
16:16Well, that's it. It only took me three years.
16:21Just about the prettiest quilt you ever made, Grandma.
16:23Yeah, well, surprise winner if I ever sold one.
16:28I thought I'd decorate the cake with fresh raspberries.
16:33Slow down, child. There's cake in the oven.
16:35Mama, Ben needs some lard.
16:37All right.
16:39What does he want lard for?
16:41He's gonna grease Rover, see if we can catch him. Says he needs practice.
16:44You tell Ben I don't want you children rolling in the dirt with any greased pig.
16:47And furthermore, lard is too expensive these days.
16:50Oh, Mama.
16:51Don't you oh Mama me, Jimbob. Besides, who'd have to wash your clothes?
16:54You would.
16:55That's right. So don't get filthy and don't tear your clothes.
17:03Mama?
17:05Ike didn't have any almond. He says he doesn't get too much cult for fancy stuff like that.
17:09Oh, no. Aunt Polly's recipe distinctly calls for almond.
17:13Why don't you use vanilla or something like that?
17:15Then it'd be just an everyday cake. I want this cake to be zippy.
17:18Oh, Lord.
17:23Four minutes and we wouldn't have had to worry about flavoring.
17:26Is there anything I can do for you around here?
17:28No, you can go outside and check on the children.
17:44Livvy, now don't you tell a soul, but almond wasn't what Cousin Polly used in her icing.
17:51No? What did she use?
17:54Whiskey.
17:55What did she use?
17:57Whiskey.
18:00Rye whiskey.
18:03I don't like to say it, but it was delicious.
18:08Grandma, I'm surprised at you.
18:10Well, it's not against the law since prohibition's been repealed.
18:14Well, even so.
18:17Anyway, where could we possibly get a hold of whiskey except from the Baldwin sisters?
18:21And I'd never do that in a million years.
18:23Zeb's got some.
18:25I pretend I don't know that he has it because he likes to think he's got me fooled.
18:29But there's a pint bottle under his woolen socks in the old secretary.
18:35Think he'd let me have a tablespoon or two?
18:37I'm sure he would.
18:40But then I'd have to let him know that I know where he's gotten it.
18:45Well, I think a man should have a secret or two from his wife.
18:48That isn't much help to me, is it?
18:51It sticks.
18:54I'll get you a smidgen. He'll never know the difference.
19:05Mama, do you think maybe Yance the Tucker could have stolen that little pig he gave to Ben?
19:09Mary Ellen, what a thing to say.
19:11I just wondered.
19:12Well, don't. Yance is your father's best friend.
19:15Then why does Daddy always call him the old horse thief all the time?
19:18Your father's idea of a joke, I imagine.
19:24Bye.
19:32Hello, Oscar.
19:34If Renoir could have seen you three, he would have painted another masterpiece.
19:37Who's Renoir?
19:38Old French painter. He loved life and beauty.
19:44You girls be careful now and don't crush the big one so they'll bleed on the icing.
19:48It's quite a car you have there, Oscar.
19:50Well, Dodie doesn't like an open car. She prefers the LaSalle when she's at home.
19:56Well, I guess an open car like that, the Wynwood, must you have.
19:59Not Dodie's. She wears her hair short. Latest style.
20:03You have a picture of her?
20:05I've got one of the two of us.
20:07The newspaper sometimes won't let me.
20:12Well, I scarcely would have recognized her.
20:14She looks so woman of the world.
20:18Woman of the world.
20:21You could look chic with your hair like that, Olivia.
20:24John likes it the way it is.
20:27Olivia.
20:31Tell me about yourself. Are you all right?
20:35Of course, don't I look all right?
20:37You look better than you have any right to look.
20:39But it can't have been easy for you, having to work so hard.
20:43Well, I guess the depression's hit just about everybody.
20:46So many children?
20:48Yeah, and I'm lucky.
20:50Wouldn't you like to travel?
20:52Someday, maybe.
20:53Times are better. Children don't need us anymore.
20:56But right now, this is my world.
21:00Dodie doesn't seem to mind traipsing off all by herself.
21:04Sometimes I think she prefers it that way.
21:08Are you happy?
21:10Well, I thought I would be once I took to politicking, but I'm no good at it.
21:16I never caught the knack of reaching people.
21:27You're not supposed to eat the big ones.
21:29I need them to decorate my cake for the county fair.
21:33Oh, Oscar, now you know what it's going to look like.
21:36Yeah?
21:42And she had been melancholy when she came into the orchard.
21:46But now she stood in a shower of white petals from the crabapple tree,
21:51remembering another time, a lost love.
21:56And in that moment, she realized that everyone has a secret part of himself,
22:01a place where all one's dreams still live.
22:05And strengthened, she walked away from the orchard toward the place where she lived.
22:17Penny for your thoughts?
22:21Don't be so extravagant. Penny's worth more than that these days.
22:29Hasn't been easy for you, has it?
22:31It's...
22:33It's...
22:35It's...
22:37It's...
22:39It's...
22:41It's...
22:43It's...
22:44It's...
22:45It's...
22:48Well, it's so many things I want to give you.
22:52You've given me everything I want out of this life.
23:00Oscar could have given you another kind of life.
23:04Can you imagine me married to a politician?
23:10You did go out with him a few times.
23:13Just to make you jealous.
23:21You ever kiss him?
23:25John Walton, are you out of your mind?
23:42What?
24:13What?
24:34Fabio!
24:35What in the world are you doing?
24:37I was just trying to smell your breath, Esther.
24:39You're crazy.
24:42Is there anything wrong with my breath?
24:45No, it's about the same as usual.
24:48There's someone around this house tonight whose breath smells like whiskey.
24:53You're accusing me, old man?
24:55Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine.
25:13Hurry up, Libby.
25:15I want to get to the fair early and find a good spot for my quilt here.
25:19And your cake.
25:21I'm almost finished. Grandpa, will you hand me that kettle over there?
25:23No.
25:25Now, don't forget that plate. It was a wedding gift from Cousin Julia.
25:28I'll remember.
25:29It goes to Mary Ellen when she gets married.
25:33Come on.
25:35Yeah, Libby.
25:36What sort of flavoring you girls been using on that icing?
25:39Raspberries.
25:40I like the odor of fresh raspberries.
25:43Smells better than raspberries to me.
25:45I'll take it.
25:47Mother!
25:51Come on, you folks.
25:52We ought to get there. In you go.
26:04Morning, folks.
26:06On the way to the fair?
26:07Nice day for it, isn't it, Oscar?
26:09You look a little crowded up there.
26:11Can I give anybody a lift?
26:14John boy, why don't you go with Oscar and take the cake?
26:16It won't jiggle so much.
26:17I'll take the cake.
26:20Thank you, Oscar.
26:21Libby, come on. I'm coming.
26:32See you all later.
26:33See you there.
26:40Get back!
26:41Stay!
26:42Sit there!
26:43Hold it there, boy!
26:45Get back!
26:46Sit!
26:47Get back there!
26:52This is really a terrific car.
26:56I can't get too excited about it myself,
26:58but I suppose you're right.
27:01It looks good, anyway.
27:04Do you really want to get to the legislature?
27:06Young man, you've hit upon a sore point.
27:08I... I think I do.
27:10I'm trying to find something to give meaning to my life, so to speak.
27:16So you're going to be a writer?
27:18It's easy to call yourself a writer.
27:20Must be nice to know exactly what you want.
27:22I tell you, at first I thought that writers had to have names like
27:25Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon, Lord Byron.
27:28Then I decided, why shouldn't just a plain old John Walton Jr.
27:31stand just as good a chance?
27:33Do you know what you want to write about?
27:35Well, the family, mostly.
27:37You know, the way it is around here and
27:39what we do from day to day, struggling against the times.
27:42But underneath, you know, the way we feel about it.
27:44Sort of what we want out of life, that kind of thing.
27:47Look, I met an editor a couple of years ago in New York.
27:50Scribner's he's with.
27:52If you ever write a book, I might be able to get him to read it.
27:57That's a very generous offer, thank you.
27:59Generous?
28:00I'd do anything in the world for a boy of Olivia's.
28:04You should have seen your mother when we were young.
28:06Prettiest thing you ever saw.
28:08She still is, I reckon.
28:10Tell me, is there anything your mama doesn't have that she'd like?
28:16No, I don't think so.
28:20The fairgrounds are up here. Take the shortcut.
28:22It's the next turn on the right.
28:30All right.
28:56Here's your cake.
29:01Here, I'll give you a hand.
29:05Christ, he dirty up his hands.
29:07Oh, he's politicking.
29:12Hey, that's a nice fat hug you got there.
29:14Well, where was gonna be the greased pig?
29:16Huh? I hope he's feeling good.
29:18Well, the pig that ever ate slobs could outrun me.
29:21We'll see about that, George.
29:23Thanks for the help.
29:24Can you promise us all a dime?
29:26So I did.
29:28So I did.
29:29So I did.
29:30Oh, I want my dice back.
29:31Oh, I dropped one.
29:32You can get that back.
29:33All right, honey, all right, take it easy.
29:35Come on, let's head up towards the fair.
29:37Here you are, honey, come on.
29:38Who else?
29:39There's a quarter.
29:40Me!
29:42Come on, let's go.
29:58Come on, let's go.
30:06Oh, look, a bear!
30:10What is that?
30:11A train!
30:12A train!
30:19Hi, Johnny.
30:20Howdy.
30:21Nice piece of horse flesh there.
30:23Over here, over here.
30:29Hi!
30:34Move down, move down.
30:35I got one more teacher.
30:42Daddy, I want to go out on the merry-go-round.
30:44All right, who wants to go out on the merry-go-round?
30:46Me!
30:47Go, here you go, get it on.
30:48All right, let's go.
30:49Come on, Mom.
30:50I'm not going on that!
30:51I dare you!
30:52I want to kill you!
30:53I don't want that!
30:54Dad, right here!
30:58So you have a patchwork for us how nice took me three years
31:23I think of it now where we're gonna hang it right there where Grace Patterson's is
31:31that's an old one oh I don't think so we're only showing you work look I'd
31:35recognize that double wedding ring pattern anywhere she won with it back in
31:3929 that was the last fair we had before the depression oh I don't think mrs.
31:44Patterson would submit a blanket right look I have known her since before
31:48Garfield was shot don't talk to me about that woman don't you think we'd look
31:53nice over here looks fine right here give me a hand bring it right over oh
31:58look somebody else had the same idea what a coincidence I'm both so pretty
32:09Oh your name please mrs. John taste is a factor too mrs.
32:17Walton well which one is which one is Olivia's I am confused already the one
32:27on the left don't you dare ask I'd never forgive you we're trying to group our
32:35jellies by flavor is yours plum no I wouldn't think so well it's darker than
32:43strawberry so it is it tastes better too a combination perhaps of secret
32:52ingredients our own recipe now sister we must give your Papa credit it's only
32:58fair don't tell me your father was a jelly maker oh heavens no Papa was a
33:07judge but he had a recipe for jelly not precisely but he was inventive like
33:18Thomas Alva Edison the comparison would have pleased him sister
33:23well suppose we put your jelly over here in the family recipe section
33:30decision worthy of Solomon my dear I'll take that thank you thank you
33:36goodbye sister I feel like having our fortunes told I've never had much faith
33:47in gypsies since that one in Budapest saw that sea captain in my palm but if
33:53you want to Oh sister let's
34:00Oh
34:17teeth really here's where they store boy oh there's his own all right but
34:22sometimes seemed like he had more in his fair share you got close enough so tell
34:27Teddy Roosevelt always talked to all of us rough riders doesn't the high
34:31pollutant about him no sir he horsetail Bob nag no just common as an old shoe I
34:38remember one night just before San Juan Hills was sitting around the campfire
34:42and telling stories and singing we looked up all of a sudden and there he
34:47stood singing right along with it
34:51oh he was a nice man oh hi oh hello Martha Rose how's every little thing
35:00Marion every little thing is just fine Martha Rose entered her brownies they're
35:04the best I ever tasted I use cashews instead of walnuts I'm not partial to
35:10cashews myself I know some who are it's all kinds well what got into Marion gosh
35:18who knows well what charge was that San Juan Hill oh sure I was there right up
35:28behind him leading the charge and given the rebel yell yeah now you're fool back
35:34and he didn't get hit oh well no not till we got right up to the top of the
35:39ridge and then some Spaniard plucked me right knee no no I think it was the
35:44right knee well I reckon oh it's so long ago I almost forgot reckon we got two
35:49celebrities with us here today who's the other one Oscar Cochran him I hope
35:57you're not calling me a liar Esther Walton wouldn't think of it all I'm
36:02saying is that's the same quilt you showed back in 29 and I tell you it's
36:06one like it and I made it since it's beginning to fray see that swatch was
36:13frayed when I sewed it in ladies please
36:21yours is much prettier that's beside the point where's my husband
36:26he's over there talking to Samantha grandma I never knew he met Teddy
36:30Roosevelt during the Spanish-American War as far as I know he didn't but he's
36:34over there saying that he rode up right behind him on the charge up San Juan
36:37Hill Zeb was always a good storyteller the thing didn't happen he made it
36:41happen when he told it maybe that's where you get your talent it's not like
36:46Grace Patterson in her stories don't worry about it she hasn't won yet come
36:49on go get some coffee still watching the pig huh uh-huh why don't you go to the
36:55fair I'll keep him company listen Ben you I'll sit with him a while all right
37:00that's been my dime already anyway okay you wanna sure go on
37:05have a good time
37:35come on okay here oh my goodness you ready
37:47I guess I inherited my muscles from my mother
38:17all right I'll give it a try
38:40Wow
39:10Emily and miss Mamie is this what I think it is our secret recipe positively
39:29intoxicating
39:40Oh
40:11be another time for you mister but you mean like there was another time for you
40:17I wouldn't stoop I told you this is a new one made from the same pattern if
40:25it's so new where did that piece well see that must have been you say you
40:36forgot now I can remember every square inch in mine there's Libby's dress
40:41there's my old comforter there's Evelyn's wedding shirt there are my
40:45bloomers now they look alike and the texture is the same but there's
40:51something about this one the flavor of the icing I can't place it I can't either
40:58but it's habit-forming what do you think well there's no doubt in my mind at all
41:05this one here I couldn't agree with you more hurry what about you that makes it
41:10unanimous mrs. Bolton I hope you'll give me your recipe I will if you'll tell me
41:24where you have you hear them Burgess's Beauty Salon it's cold tell them this is
41:28Millicent thank you Olivia promise me one thing you send me a snapshot as soon
41:34as you get your hair I may be silly and vain but I want to try it at least one
41:49and having hard times here in Jefferson County like every place else but I think
41:55it's time we get somebody down there in Richmond who can speak up for us not
42:00much of a talker as you all know I'm gonna let mr. cock will speak for
42:04himself here he is mr. Oscar my good friends my good neighbors we have a
42:21friend in the White House these days he was sent to us when we were sorely tried
42:25and afraid he has brought us the NRA the CCC the WPA yes he's a good friend but
42:36one man alone cannot reach into every town every hamlet every mountain community come
42:44on Oscar where did you tell us something we don't already know he needs help help
42:51from men in every branch of government and you want to be that help the chance
42:58George we do need help down here go on Oscar I'll let him say what he means
43:02mister you out there I do want to be that help I grew up on these parts I
43:09know these dogwood hills the the red clay earth and the the air so clean and
43:16fresh you can hear a whipper will all the way to Lovingston we we are not
43:20strangers some of you out there have known me all my life right out there now
43:25is this miss Emily Baldwin and miss Mamie Baldwin there are the Waltons John and
43:36Olivia and their beautiful family I I feel that I know all of you and I I know
43:45some of the problems you have up here yes I want to break some balloons too I
43:49want to break some balloons in Richmond
43:56and if you've got problems I want to make them my problems too I want to get
44:02down in the state legislature and tell them your wants your needs and see to it
44:08that you get them
44:19there he is
44:33I'm going to get that man
44:35come on Mr. Porter
44:37I'm going to beat him
44:39I'm impeached
44:41my turn
44:43alright now you
44:45jump in
44:47jump in
44:53wait a minute
44:55come on
44:57come on
44:59come on
45:01come on
45:03come on
45:05come on
45:07come on
45:09come on
45:11you can do it
45:13come on
45:15come on
45:17come on
45:19come on
45:21come on
45:23come on
45:29come on
45:43where'd you get that pig boy
45:45it was a present
45:47that's some present that's my pig look here
45:49that's my mark
45:51George, you don't want to call Fenn here a thief, do you?
45:54I'm saying this here is my property.
45:57Yeah, he's right, Walton. Them's Porter's Marks, okay.
46:00Well, all right, George. Tell you what, I'll buy him from you. How much you want?
46:05Ten dollars.
46:07Ten dollars, George?
46:09That pig's not worth more than five dollars, George. Besides, you didn't fatten him up any.
46:13That's right. I'll give you five, George. Fenn here wants to go to the Hawkins.
46:18That's stealing!
46:21But I'll take it.
46:23I'll pay you next week. Come on.
46:25Next week? You pay me now. You want this pig? You pay me now.
46:28Gotta get far with it.
46:30Now, if you want the pig.
46:37Real neighborly of you to offer to wait, Mr. Porter, but there's no need.
46:41Here's the money we owe you.
46:43Here.
46:49Right there's the pig.
46:51Hold it, George. Thank you.
46:57You'd have that money for yourself.
46:59What could I buy that I haven't already got?
47:01Come on.
47:12Mama, will you teach me how to make brownies?
47:14Not right now.
47:16Olivia, John, it's been a great day, and I sure hope to see all of you real soon.
47:21Good luck. Thank you.
47:23All right, here we go. Now we'll meet you, Mr. Porter.
47:26We're all your constituents.
47:28Four votes.
47:32Come on back.
47:36Turn right. Turn right. Come on back.
47:39Hold.
47:41Good luck on the election.
47:43Thanks. I think I'm going to enjoy the fight.
47:45Enjoy it? You might even win it.
47:47I'm willing.
48:02Many people were to touch our lives.
48:05Hard times, sickness, and survival in a harsh decade were still ahead of us,
48:11but we weathered them and we endured them
48:14because the love of my parents for each other and for my brothers and sisters
48:18made our family invulnerable.
48:21I did not know it then, but they were the best days of our lives.
48:27Daddy, did you like brownies when you were a boy?
48:30Every little boy likes brownies.
48:32I wish you'd told me that. I might have popped the question sooner.
48:36Time you learned one of the facts of life, Mary Ellen.
48:39A boy seldom marries a girl on account of her brownies.
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