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00:00🎵Jingle Bells🎵
00:30🎵Jingle Bells🎵
00:58🎵Music🎵
01:14Life on Walton's Mountain never seemed more stable than when I was 18 and in college.
01:20It was comforting to know that the family was always there,
01:24knowing exactly what they were doing and accepting it as the right and necessary way to live.
01:30Each of us has a secret life, private dreams and aspirations and fantasies
01:36that we are hesitant to share with others.
01:39I had always associated my mother with our home
01:43and thought the boundaries of her life were within the walls of that house.
01:47Then, one day, I happened to stumble across my mother's private dream.
01:53🎵Music🎵
02:16Ah!
02:17Chum boy, what do you mean creeping up on me like that? You could scare a body to death.
02:21I'm sorry, I just wanted to surprise you.
02:23You certainly did that.
02:24What's that?
02:25Give it to me.
02:26Can I see it?
02:27No, give it to me.
02:31This is good.
02:32It is not, now give...
02:35When did you take up painting?
02:37I didn't.
02:38It's just relaxing, that's all.
02:42Have you done any others?
02:44Two or three.
02:45Of what?
02:46The house, Elizabeth asleep under the oak tree, and this one, that's all.
02:51Can I see them?
02:52No, I threw them away.
02:53You threw them away? Why?
02:55Because it's just foolish doodling, now let's get home.
02:59All right.
03:00You got the car here.
03:02Art lessons?
03:03What would I do with art lessons?
03:05Learn, develop your talent.
03:08I don't have any talent.
03:10Are you telling a college man he doesn't know talent when he sees it?
03:14Well, supposing I did, and I don't, where would I take the lessons?
03:22In Charlottesville, at the high school, they have night classes for adults.
03:25We can't afford that.
03:27Night classes are free, all you do is supply the materials.
03:30Oh.
03:33Anyway, I don't have the time.
03:35One evening a week for a few hours.
03:39Well, I just can't go up and leave everybody.
03:41Mama, the children are old enough to put themselves to bed, even Elizabeth.
03:49Well, how would I get there?
03:54Well, you could drive my car, I'll teach you how to drive.
04:00Why not?
04:01Ha, ha, ha.
04:10And nobody will have to worry about getting whooping cough again.
04:12I'll believe that when I see it.
04:14Well, you'll see it in a year or two, Grandma.
04:16What's an injection?
04:18They stick a needle in your arm.
04:19Like a shot.
04:20I'd rather have the whooping cough.
04:22Oh, well, we've had tonight's disease.
04:24I wonder what tomorrow night's disease is going to be.
04:26Now, you boys stop teasing your sister.
04:28She's telling you things that are important to her.
04:30We know that, Daddy.
04:31She's better than Information Please on the radio.
04:34Well, you'll all sing a different tune when an epidemic sweeps over Walton's Mountain
04:38and they have to call me back from wherever I'm serving mankind
04:41to give you all injections to save your lives.
04:48John boy's going to teach me to drive.
04:51Good Lord.
04:52But you already know how to drive a bicycle.
04:54Well, good for you, Libby.
04:56You'll be ready to take off when this family gets to be too much for you.
04:59It's not funny, old man.
05:01Now, why do you have to learn how to drive?
05:03There's no place you need to go that one of the men can't take you.
05:06I'm going to go to night school.
05:08In Charlottesville.
05:09That's why I need to learn how to drive.
05:11Night school, but you've had plenty of schooling.
05:16John, you haven't said anything.
05:18What are you planning on studying, Lib?
05:21Painting.
05:24Oh, I remember you used to like to paint pictures.
05:26Haven't done that for a long time.
05:28I bet you'll be a famous artist.
05:30I doubt that, Jim Bob.
05:32I don't understand.
05:33Why do you have to take lessons to learn how to paint?
05:36There's a lot of things about painting I don't know and I enjoy learning them.
05:40And once you've learned them, what good will they do you?
05:42Excuse me.
05:43Why don't you paint a picture of me and I'll be immortalized.
05:46Wouldn't you like to pose with me, old girl?
05:51Mama, will you paint a picture of me?
05:52If I get good enough, I will.
05:54What would you paint?
05:56Oh, I'd paint you in your aviator's cab, standing outside watching an airplane go over.
06:01Mama, are you going to have to live in Charlottesville?
06:05No, honey, I'll only be gone for a few hours.
06:07One night a week.
06:09And then I won't leave till after supper.
06:11If you go to school, Mama, why don't you take a course that you can make money at?
06:14You could take lessons in sewing or gardening.
06:17Now, that might make some sense.
06:19Libby knows all she needs to know about those things.
06:23Remember the time I went on that fishing trip because I was feeling the need of a change?
06:27Maybe that's the way Libby feels about these lessons.
06:30That's exactly how I feel.
06:32Well, I just don't know what's gotten into people these days.
06:35Traipsing off to take up painting lessons and talking about being a traveling nurse or something?
06:41Well, as far as I'm concerned, I want things to be kept exactly the way they have been.
06:46Grandma, I've heard you complain before about doing the same thing day after day.
06:50Sitting at the table doing the chores.
06:52It's no different for me.
06:54I do need a change.
06:56I need to do something for myself.
06:58It doesn't mean I care any less for all of you.
07:01It just means that I want more.
07:03I want to be a more interesting person for myself.
07:07I think it'll be good for all of you, too.
07:20John boy.
07:24What does this mean?
07:25What?
07:26When two cars come to an intersection, the car to the right has the right of way.
07:30To the right of what?
07:31To the right of you. To your right.
07:33If the car is on your right, he goes first.
07:36If the car is on your left, you go first.
07:39Ow!
07:40Squeeze it, Aaron, and keep your eye on the needle.
07:43Because if he's on my left, then I'm on his right.
07:47That's right.
07:49That's only if you reach the intersection at the same time.
07:52If you reach the intersection last, he goes first.
07:55If he reaches the intersection last, you go first.
08:01How do I look?
08:02Very nice.
08:03What are you so gussied up for?
08:05I'm going walking with Don Millman.
08:07Don Millman? He thinks he's so great.
08:10Well, he is. Someday he's going to be a doctor.
08:12Ah, and you're going to be a nurse. That makes it very convenient.
08:17Evening, all.
08:18Good evening, Doctor.
08:19Come on in.
08:20Don and I are going for a walk now.
08:22Don't you two be late.
08:30You should see what Mary Ellen was doing today.
08:33She was sitting in front of the mirror saying,
08:35Doctor and Mrs. Don Millman.
08:37Mr. and Mrs. Don Millman.
08:39And she kept saying it over and over again.
08:42Well, don't you think it's disgusting?
08:46John Boy.
08:57John Boy.
09:00What does this mean?
09:09What are you doing?
09:10I'm going to be a painter like Mama.
09:12Mama.
09:14How do you like it?
09:16It's okay.
09:18Want me to do one for you?
09:20If you want to.
09:22I don't see why Mama has to go to school in order to paint.
09:25It's simple. All you've got to do is sit down and paint.
09:43Okay, Mama, let's go.
09:47Come on.
10:08Well?
10:09I can't even find art classes on this.
10:11You can't. Here they are, art classes right there.
10:14There are four of them.
10:15Yeah.
10:16Well, why don't you start with the simplest?
10:18This looks perfect to me.
10:19Beginner's watercolor classes, Tuesday nights from 7 to 9 p.m.
10:23That's it.
10:27So exciting.
10:28Yeah, we're going to have to concentrate on those driving lessons.
10:31It's going to be nothing but a dream if you can't get yourself back and forth.
10:36Okay, Mama, now make sure it's in neutral.
10:40Now it's in neutral.
10:42All right, turn your key.
10:44Okay.
10:45Push down on the clutch.
10:48Push down on the starter button.
10:53Lisbon!
10:54Come here!
10:55Lisbon!
10:56You stay still!
10:57Now push down on the accelerator.
10:59Not too much, not too much.
11:01Ease her into first gear.
11:03Ease her into first gear.
11:05Now, down on the accelerator and ease it up on the clutch.
11:08Ease up off the clutch.
11:09Okay, you put off the clutch easy.
11:11Ease it up, ease it up.
11:16Put the brake on.
11:17No, watch out!
11:18No, no, no!
11:19Put the brake on!
11:20No, put the brake on!
11:22Keep right on the guard!
11:26Mama, no, no!
11:27Brake! Brake it!
11:30Take it easy!
11:31Watch out for the tree!
11:33Grandpa, we got to get her out of there!
11:35Get her out of the tree!
11:38Oh, cowboy!
11:39What did you take so hard?
11:41Get back, get back, everybody!
11:43Turn that thing off, cowboy!
11:45You're not teaching her right, son!
11:46What do you mean I'm not teaching her right, daddy?
11:48This is a whole different thing from the truck.
11:50It's not the same at all.
11:51Don't tell me what's different.
11:52I've been driving longer than you've been alive.
11:53I know as much about cars as anyone on Walton Mountain.
11:55I drove the first one back in 1990.
11:57Oh, Grandpa, these new cars are very different from those old things.
11:59I may have forgotten what I knew, but I do know that you're not supposed to trip here.
12:02I know coordination is the main thing.
12:04I was just driving along.
12:05I'm sorry.
12:13Sign up yet, son?
12:17No, sir.
12:19See anything happen to him?
12:21Of course not, Elizabeth.
12:22He probably just had a long line at the license office.
12:27Estie!
12:28Come on out and see the fun!
12:30I have chores to do.
12:32Here they come!
12:35Jason!
12:36Who's driving?
12:37I can't tell.
12:38It's Mama!
12:39Mama's driving!
12:40Then get out of the way!
12:54Good job, honey.
12:56How about that?
12:57Is that a lady with a license?
12:59John Boyd, now can I go ahead and drive?
13:01Well, not tonight, Mary Ellen.
13:03Tonight, Mama's going into town for her first class.
13:08Bye, Mama.
13:09Bye.
13:10Have a good time.
13:11Be careful.
13:12Now you drive carefully, you hear?
13:14Bring home your pictures.
13:24Hey!
13:29Nope.
13:30That's the wrong way.
13:31Wrong way!
13:32That way!
13:33Bye-bye!
13:34Bye-bye!
13:35Mary Ellen!
13:59Come on.
14:04Hello.
14:05I'm Joshua Williams.
14:06And you're?
14:07I'm Olivia Walton.
14:14Olivia.
14:23Ladies and gentlemen, your attention, please.
14:25I want to introduce you to your new classmate,
14:28Olivia Walton.
14:30How do you do?
14:31Olivia, meet the rest of tomorrow's greatest painters.
14:36Why don't we put you back there?
14:45Put your pocketbook there.
14:49Let's put this on so you won't get your sweater dirty.
14:56Paint, brushes, board.
15:00Charcoal.
15:04We're working on apples.
15:06Have a seat, Olivia.
15:12Is everything all right?
15:13Oh, yes, thank you, Mr. Williams.
15:15Does it bother you that I called you Olivia?
15:17Oh, no.
15:19Well, yes, I suppose it does.
15:20I guess I...
15:22I guess I thought school would be more formal.
15:26All right.
15:27Mrs. Walton.
15:29That's too formal.
15:46It's only paper.
15:49It's so empty.
15:52It will be until you fill it.
15:55After you've made that first mark,
15:56you'll be much less scared than you think you are right now.
16:00I've never drawn apples before.
16:04What have you drawn?
16:06Well, I tried to paint a mountain once.
16:09Was it a real mountain?
16:10Oh, yes.
16:12Walton's Mountain.
16:13Named after my husband's family when they first settled there.
16:16It's...
16:18It's very pretty.
16:21Why do you want to paint it?
16:26Because it's so strong.
16:29And comforting.
16:31Seems to be saying,
16:33don't worry, I'll always be here,
16:36standing
16:38and watching over you.
16:45I'll try those apples now.
16:50He understands what I mean almost before I say it.
16:54It's the strangest thing, John.
16:56It's almost as if he has a special way of
16:59knowing.
17:01Guess that's what makes him a good teacher.
17:04Students sure like him a lot.
17:06Especially the women.
17:08He has a way with them.
17:10Them?
17:12How about you?
17:16Oh, John, he's just a baby.
17:18What'd you paint?
17:20Oh, I'm not good enough to paint yet.
17:22I'm still at the sketching stage.
17:24I drew a bowl of apples.
17:26I'd like to see that.
17:28Well, maybe when they're round like apples
17:30instead of flat like pennies, I'll show it to you.
17:40Hey, Ellen.
17:43Hey.
17:44Hey, Ellen.
17:49I don't know how many more nights
17:51I'm going to be able to stay up waiting for you.
17:57Oh, I'm sorry, Dad. The time just flew by.
18:00Mary Ellen, Don is a nice boy,
18:02but nine o'clock is your bedtime on weekdays.
18:05We're working people, honey, and school is your work.
18:08You're not going to be able to do it
18:09if you don't get enough sleep.
18:11Oh, at my age, I don't need much sleep.
18:15Well, at my age, I do.
18:18What are you and Don fine to talk about for so long, anyway?
18:23Sutures.
18:33Sutures.
18:37A lot of improvement. Good night.
18:41Good night.
18:45Oh, my goodness.
18:48Good night, Joshua.
18:50Good night, Janice.
18:52Florence.
19:00Olivia.
19:05I wanted to show you something.
19:10They're round.
19:12Olivia, the apples are round.
19:14Now you're ready to start painting.
19:16I know. I never thought I'd get it right.
19:19They're very good, too.
19:21Though you still could use a little work right here.
19:24A little more shading.
19:26Oh, sensitive.
19:28The mark of the true artist.
19:33Now, why don't you tell me
19:35why you really stayed after the others?
19:38I wanted to show you my mountain picture.
19:41I've been working on it at home, and I...
19:52I see what you mean.
19:55About the mountain being strong.
19:57It's very good, Olivia.
20:01Could be a lot better, though.
20:03Oh, of course it could be.
20:05But it shows spirit.
20:07And you can see the care that's going into the work.
20:09The qualities I see in you, I see in it.
20:14I worked really hard on it.
20:18You know, you should paint a lot more, Olivia.
20:21You have a lot of things to say,
20:23and you have the skill.
20:25You could express them beautifully
20:27if you really work on it.
20:29I don't have the kind of time it would take.
20:31Oh.
20:33If you enjoy it, then you must make the time.
20:35It's too much housework.
20:36Ah.
20:38Housework is for ordinary people.
20:40You don't understand.
20:42My time isn't my own.
20:44I have a family.
20:46Then you must get away from them
20:48to a quiet place where you can work.
20:50You really don't understand.
20:52When I say a family, I mean it.
20:54I've got seven children.
20:56Housework may be ordinary,
20:58but then so is my life.
21:00Olivia,
21:02do you ever think about a different kind of life?
21:04One where you could do
21:06whatever you wanted to do?
21:08You could paint whenever you wanted to.
21:10You could eat at any hour you chose.
21:12If you wanted to walk in the rain or the sunlight,
21:14all you'd have to do would be
21:16to walk out the door and start walking.
21:18Do you ever think about a kind of life
21:20where you could do exactly what you wanted to do
21:22when you wanted to do it?
21:24Yes, sometimes.
21:26Is that the kind of life you have?
21:28Oh, it's the way I'd want it to be.
21:32Sounds lovely.
21:34But I've chosen a different kind of life.
21:36But you do think about it?
21:38Yes.
21:40Sometimes.
21:43Come on.
21:45Let's go have a cup of coffee.
21:47Thank you, but I have to get home.
21:49No, no.
21:51Try doing just what you feel like doing.
21:53For a half an hour, anyway.
21:58All right.
22:03I don't know.
22:04The only problem is
22:06I get a little icky at the sight of blood.
22:08Oh, well, if you're going to be a doctor, Don,
22:10I mean, you know, you've got to overcome that type of thing.
22:12I mean, like, take me.
22:14I mean, I've been around blood all my life.
22:16You know, with the chickens and the...
22:18Mary Ellen, it's time to come in.
22:20Wait a minute, Grandma.
22:22Mary Ellen, it's late.
22:24I'll be right in.
22:26She's so old-fashioned.
22:28I don't know about that.
22:30I think your grandma's right.
22:32Women need looking after.
22:34You mean nurse.
22:36I've changed my mind.
22:38Mary Ellen, why are you trying to compete with me?
22:40Mary Ellen.
22:42Just a minute, Grandma.
22:44Listen, Don Millman, let me tell you something.
22:46I'm not the least bit interested in competing with you.
22:48I can be just as good a doctor as you, if not better.
22:50As far as I'm concerned, you can just go jump in a lake.
22:52Grandma, why do you have to keep yelling at me?
22:54Don and I are trying to have a serious conversation.
22:56Because it's late and I need my sleep.
22:58Well, why don't you go to bed?
23:00Because it's not proper for you to be out there
23:02with a young man without a grown person
23:04waiting up until he's left.
23:06Well, I don't know who's more old-fashioned, you or Don.
23:08I'm a grown person capable of making my own decisions.
23:10Well, not to me, you're not.
23:12Grandma, in just a few years, I'm going to be a doctor.
23:14A what?
23:16A doctor.
23:18Whatever you're talking about, Mary Ellen.
23:20Well, I've decided that the real medical world
23:22is doctoring, not nursing.
23:24There is no such thing as a lady doctor.
23:26There is two.
23:28Name one.
23:30Dr. Marie Currie, Dr. Clara Swain, Dr. Alice Hamilton,
23:32Dr. Emily Dunning-Berenger, Dr. Mary...
23:34If you keep throwing up,
23:36that sort of thing will have stopped happening.
23:38Now, will you please go to bed?
23:42And Dr. Mary Ellen Walton, M.E. Walton, M.D.
23:49Paul Gauguin.
23:51He had an ordinary life.
23:53Wife, children, a good job.
23:56But he wanted to paint.
23:58So he just got up one day and left everything behind.
24:01Where'd he go?
24:02Tahiti.
24:04Tahiti?
24:06My goodness.
24:08Only a man could do that.
24:10Oh?
24:12You're wrong, Olivia.
24:14There was a woman called Mary Cassatt.
24:16She left her home in Philadelphia
24:18and went to Paris to paint.
24:20And live.
24:22Paris?
24:24You know,
24:26there's a little square there
24:28in the shadow of the Sacré-Cœur.
24:29All the painters of Paris
24:31gather there and paint that lovely cathedral
24:33and all the small alleys
24:35and cafes and streets
24:37leading up Montmartre.
24:39My husband was there
24:41during the armistice.
24:44One day I'll live there.
24:49What would you say if I said,
24:51Olivia, come with me.
24:53We'll go to Paris.
24:55I'll paint in a garret
24:57and you can be my inspiration.
24:59I'd say he's going to feed the children
25:01and see that they get off to school on time.
25:06Oh, Olivia.
25:08There you go.
25:10Being ordinary again.
25:12I told you.
25:14I am ordinary.
25:20Paris, France.
25:30Children, I want you to have your breakfast
25:32before I leave. Now, hurry.
25:34Just once.
25:36When I ask them to hurry, they would.
25:38Good Lord, Olivia, it's only 7.30.
25:40I told them I had to leave early.
25:42Have a good time, Liv.
25:44I wish you were going with me.
25:46I'm not much for museums.
25:48Besides, I got a job to get done
25:50over in Scottsville.
25:52Anything I can do for you, John?
25:54No, thanks, Pop.
25:56You could get to that firewood out back, though.
25:57It's been a long time
25:59since I've been anywhere.
26:01You're not going anywhere,
26:03at least not today.
26:05You can't have everybody gallivanting
26:07all over the country.
26:09Grandma, Mr. Williams has gone to a lot of trouble
26:11to arrange this class trip to the museum
26:13and nothing in the world
26:15would stop me from going.
26:17Well, it's just plain foolishness,
26:19far as I can see.
26:21Imagine going all the way to Richmond
26:23and all the way back
26:25just to look at a couple of pictures.
26:27I can't, Grandma.
26:29You'll ruin your digestion.
26:31I can't, Grandma.
26:33Daddy's going to drop me and he'll be late.
26:35Because I'm using John Boy's car.
26:37That's okay, Mama.
26:39Well, it'll have to be this one time anyway.
26:41I'll be late.
26:43I'll be home after supper.
26:45I hope it won't be too late.
26:47That is, if I get out of here at all.
26:49Well, have a good time.
26:51Drive careful.
26:53Your car's in good hands.
26:55Thanks.
26:57Paul Gauguin.
26:59He was a Frenchman.
27:01He ran away from his wife
27:03to paint natives without much on
27:05on an island off somewhere.
27:07Tahiti.
27:09Some heathen place.
27:11I told you no good could come
27:13from this painting business.
27:15You're wrong, Esther.
27:17He was great, famous.
27:19More ways than one.
27:21Yeah, well, I'd like to hear
27:23his wife's side of that story.
27:25What kind of pictures does he paint, Mama?
27:27But I got it.
27:29There's plenty for everybody.
27:31Mary Ellen, will you get the toast?
27:33It's in the oven.
27:35Why do I have to?
27:37What am I, some kind of a slave around here?
27:39What is the matter with you?
27:41Well, what do you care?
27:43You don't have any time.
27:45You have to go off to that dumb museum.
27:47See?
27:49A woman's place is in the home.
27:51Grandma, I am only going to Richmond for the day.
27:53The way you're all acting around here,
27:55you'd think I was going to Tahiti forever.
27:58Come on.
28:13Mary Ellen, what's bothering you?
28:15It isn't important.
28:17You are making me very angry.
28:19Now, you know I have to leave,
28:21and you're deliberately not telling me
28:23what's on your mind.
28:25Now, what is the matter?
28:27It isn't important.
28:30Well, do you think it's all right
28:32for women to be doctors?
28:34Did you and Don Millman have a fight?
28:36Well, he had the nerve to tell me
28:38that he thought it was weird for me
28:40to want to be a doctor.
28:42I thought an interest in medicine
28:44was what you two had in common.
28:46It is. It was.
28:48What happened?
28:50Well, he told me he didn't want
28:52a woman to be a competitor.
28:54He thought of me more as an assistant,
28:55and he wanted me to go jump in the lake.
28:57Both.
28:59Why don't you tell him
29:01that you didn't mean to be rude?
29:03Well, do you think it's strange
29:05for a lady to be a doctor?
29:07No. They do most of the doctoring
29:09in the world as it is.
29:11It's high time they got a college degree
29:13and got paid for it.
29:15You better hurry, Mom.
29:17You're going to be late.
29:19I'll send the kids off to school.
29:21Thank you, Mary Ellen.
29:23Yeah, they are waiting on us.
29:25Well, it looks like
29:27we won't be a stag party after all.
29:29We're so sorry to be late,
29:31but we stopped by for Mrs. Coulson,
29:33but she was afraid her legs
29:35would swell up walking all day in the museum.
29:37Are we the only ones going?
29:39All the other men but me is working.
29:41Oh.
29:43I don't think we should wait any longer,
29:45Mr. Williams.
29:47Well, now I'm sure that Mrs. Walton
29:49is planning on coming.
29:51There she is.
29:58I'm sorry I'm late.
30:00I'm just glad you could make it.
30:02All right, here we go.
30:04Janice.
30:06Oh, me first.
30:08Mr. Evanston, I'll put you in back
30:10between these two lovely ladies,
30:12if you don't mind.
30:14No, sir.
30:16I haven't had a date like this
30:18for almost 30 years.
30:20Mr. Williams.
30:22I couldn't agree with you more, Mrs. Allitt.
30:29Everybody ready?
30:31Hold on to your hats.
30:41I want you all to look
30:43at each painting very carefully
30:45so we can discuss it
30:47when we get back to class.
30:48I just can't believe I'm really here.
30:54Can you do?
30:56Oh, isn't that amazing?
30:58Look at that.
31:00The painter caught the exact look
31:02of an older person who really loves life.
31:04It's in the eyes.
31:06John's father looks like that
31:08when he smiles.
31:10Oh.
31:16This one's by someone named
31:18Winslow Homer, 1872.
31:20Look at the color of that skin.
31:22Now, how does he make it look so real?
31:28I don't think I like this one very much.
31:30But those colors,
31:32you can almost feel
31:34how cold that water is.
31:36See the eye lining?
31:38Now that's how
31:40my bowl of fruit should look.
31:42Olivia, that's a bunch of onions.
31:44You're doing apples.
31:46Don't make fun of me.
31:48It's the same thing.
31:50It's what you were talking about.
31:52The lines disappear behind the objects.
31:54I give up.
31:57Look.
31:59Look at that.
32:01Look at that little boy
32:03pulling up his drawers.
32:05I sure couldn't do that.
32:07Excuse me.
32:15Oh, Joshua, it's beautiful.
32:18I knew you'd like it.
32:20It's just wonderful.
32:22Look at that shadow around her mouth
32:24and that tiny little smile.
32:26The way he's standing there looking at her,
32:28they could be right here in this room now.
32:30And his eyes.
32:32He's looking at her
32:34with his eyes so filled with love.
32:37Oh, Joshua, what a wonderful day.
32:40Yes.
32:42It is.
33:08Tom?
33:10How about my beating you
33:12at a game of checkers?
33:14Tonight you probably could, Bob.
33:16Yeah, let's go at it.
33:18Oh, for once,
33:20they're where they're supposed to be.
33:38Hey!
33:40Red or black?
33:42Black.
33:44Tom boy, what are you doing?
33:46Reading, same as you.
33:48That's not what I'm doing.
33:51It looks like what you're doing.
33:54This story's too hard.
33:58What story is that?
34:00The one about the mermaid who wants legs.
34:03Is that the one Mama's reading you?
34:05Yeah.
34:07Could you finish it?
34:10No, honey, uh...
34:13Look, you know, Mama'll be back,
34:15and I'm sure she wants to know how it ends herself,
34:18so wait till she gets home.
34:20She'll read it to you.
34:22Yeah, but Mama's not here.
34:24Elizabeth, she'll be back.
34:26She said she'd be home after dinner.
34:28We already ate.
34:30Okay, I'll finish it for you.
34:32No, when Mama gets home,
34:34I can tell her how it ends.
34:35Okay.
34:37John boy?
34:39Yes, sir.
34:41You taught your mama to drive.
34:43Did you teach her how to change tires?
34:45Uh-oh.
34:47I was planning on it.
34:50Planning's not doing, son.
34:53Sorry.
34:55Did Mama have a flat tire?
34:57I hope not, honey.
35:00Well, where were you up to?
35:03Out here.
35:05You sure?
35:07Okay.
35:20You know, Paul, maybe Libby's had trouble with the car.
35:23Maybe I ought to drive into Charlottesville.
35:25Oh, you know Libby well enough.
35:27She's any real trouble, she'd ask for help.
35:32Your move.
35:36Help keep your mind off the tide.
35:57I'll get these doors.
36:02Oh, thank you.
36:04Oh, yes, thank you.
36:06Next trip, New York.
36:08Yes.
36:10Maybe, Mr. Evanson, maybe.
36:12May I escort you ladies home?
36:14Oh, I would be delighted.
36:16Good night.
36:18Thank you so much.
36:20My family's gonna be worried sick.
36:22Why don't you leave your car here?
36:24You're tired, I'll drive you home.
36:26Oh, that would be lovely, but John boy will need the car in the morning.
36:28Olivia, it was a wonderful day.
36:29I think it was probably the most exciting day of my life.
36:42I've made my decision.
36:44I'm going to be a doctor.
36:46Don Millman can either like it or jump in the lake.
36:48That's good.
36:50Well, you'll feel different when you find yourself all alone at the end of the day
36:53with nothing to do but read a lot of books about diseases.
36:56Grandma, if women went along with that,
36:57they'd be doing nothing but folding clothes for the rest of their lives.
37:00I'll finish this up, Mama.
37:02You better hurry if you're going to go to your class.
37:05I'm not going tonight.
37:15All right, take that.
37:17Go upstairs and put them away.
37:19Come on.
37:28Liv?
37:30Why aren't you going to class tonight?
37:33I don't want to talk about it right now.
37:39All right.
37:49Joshua Williams is more interested in me than he should be.
37:52I don't know.
37:53Joshua Williams is more interested in me than he should be.
37:58I thought you said he was just a kid.
38:00He's ten years younger than I am.
38:03Uh-huh.
38:07It's just that he seems so attracted to me.
38:11You're a beautiful woman.
38:13You've dealt with men who looked at you before who were attracted to you.
38:17Well, not quite this way.
38:24If it's bothering you, Liv,
38:26maybe we'll bring it out in the open.
38:30That day we went to Richmond to the museum.
38:33We had such fun together.
38:36Well, I was vaguely aware that he was attracted to me,
38:39but I didn't think it would go any further than that.
38:43Did it?
38:46He kissed me.
38:48He what?
38:50Well, it wasn't planned.
38:51I mean, we really were having such a good time
38:53looking at the pictures and everything,
38:55and then we drove back to Charlottesville,
38:57and he walked me to the car,
38:59and it happened.
39:04I think he was more surprised than I was.
39:07What'd you do?
39:09Well, I got in the car and came home.
39:11What are you thinking?
39:13I'm thinking I'm glad I wasn't there.
39:15I don't like you being bothered like that.
39:18Well, I'm not going back there.
39:20Well, I'm not going back to the class,
39:22so there's no need worrying.
39:26I don't know why not.
39:28You're enjoying yourself, having fun.
39:31Just have a talk with this fella.
39:33Tell him how you feel, and he can go back.
39:35He's so young.
39:37Really.
39:39If I don't go back to the class, he'll get the point.
39:43Liv, it's not like you to back off
39:45before something's settled.
39:47I know.
39:50Then go back and get it straightened out.
39:53Well, I don't want to make more of it than there was,
39:56and he's a nice man, and I like him.
40:00Maybe that's what's bothering you,
40:02that you like him.
40:04Don't be silly, John.
40:06I'm not being silly. Why shouldn't you like him?
40:08He's interested in what you're interested in.
40:10He's attracted to you.
40:14I have to admit, it is kind of flattering.
40:20As long as you're aware of it,
40:22it can't be hurtful.
40:30I think you ought to go back there
40:32and straighten it out.
40:35I'll have to think about it.
40:41All right, Liv.
40:43You have it your way.
40:50Just a little more down here to emphasize the height.
40:53Oh, thank you.
41:19You're welcome.
41:50Anybody home?
41:54Olivia.
41:59Joshua, what are you doing here?
42:01I wanted to talk to you.
42:03I wanted to talk to you, too.
42:05Come on in.
42:07Mom!
42:09Mom!
42:11Mom!
42:13Mom!
42:16Mom!
42:17Mom!
42:20Mom!
42:21Sit down.
42:28Oh, that's my knitting.
42:29I always put it there.
42:31I can't tell you how many times I've sat on it myself.
42:33I'm sorry.
42:35Socks.
42:36I'm knitting them for the children.
42:42Would you like some lemonade?
42:43Yes, thank you.
43:08A wonderful kitchen.
43:10I don't think I've ever been in one quite like it before.
43:17Oh, these plants.
43:18I always forget to water them.
43:20I guess it's because they're so near the tap.
43:26How long have you lived here?
43:2820 years.
43:30John brought Whitney here when we were first married.
43:33I met him when I was 16 years old.
43:36Ever since that first day when I saw him,
43:38I wanted to come to this place and live here with him.
43:42I...
43:44I know you think I've never had any real chance
43:45to decide what kind of life I want.
43:48Or maybe you think that my life is boring,
43:51but it isn't.
43:52Olivia.
43:54Please let me finish.
43:57This house,
43:59that knitting that you almost sat on,
44:01those plants that I'm always forgetting to water,
44:03even that glass of lemonade,
44:06all those things are part of what I am.
44:12I can understand someone thinking
44:13that maybe I might want to leave here.
44:15I sometimes wonder
44:17what other kind of life I might have had.
44:19But that's not important.
44:21What is important
44:23is that I'm here because I want to be.
44:27I chose this life.
44:30And I like it.
44:35I'm very glad I came here.
44:39Olivia, I think I owe you an apology.
44:41You kept telling me all that.
44:43I guess I didn't want to believe it.
44:45I'm sorry.
44:49I...
44:51I feel so...
44:53foolish.
44:54Oh, please don't.
44:56I am and I always will be
44:58very flattered that you cared for me.
45:01Olivia?
45:03John, this is Joshua Williams.
45:05Joshua, my husband.
45:07How do you do?
45:08How do.
45:11I was just leaving.
45:13Mr. Walton,
45:15I'd like Mrs. Walton
45:17to consider coming back to my class.
45:19She's beginning to draw very well.
45:21Would you mind if she did that?
45:26I don't see why she shouldn't.
45:32Good afternoon.
45:34I look forward to seeing you in class.
45:37Tuesday.
45:50I'm glad you came by, John.
45:52So am I.
45:53Goodbye.
45:54Bye.
45:57Heard something of what you said, Liv.
45:59Did I do good?
46:01You did just fine.
46:11Hey, he's cute.
46:12Who is he?
46:13Joshua Williams,
46:14my painting teacher.
46:16Did he come to drag you back to class
46:17by brute force?
46:19Something like that.
46:23Hey, there's Don.
46:24Mama, what am I going to do?
46:27Why don't you wave here
46:28and see what he has to say?
46:36Don,
46:38Don.
46:43Hi, Mariella.
46:44Hi, Don.
46:45Listen,
46:46I would have given you a call,
46:47but you don't have a phone.
46:49Now tell me,
46:50how are you going to be a doctor
46:51without a telephone?
46:55You want to walk?
46:57Yeah.
47:08The Mountain Colored Our Lives
47:10When We Lived In Its Shadow
47:12And Even After
47:13When The Course Of Our Lives
47:14Led Us Far Away
47:16Wherever I May Be
47:18With The Coming Of Night
47:19Also Comes The Whisper
47:21Of Those Long Ago Voices
47:27What's going on in there,
47:28you girls?
47:29I'm not sure.
47:30I'm just a little tired.
47:31I'm going to bed.
47:32I'm going to bed.
47:33I'm going to bed.
47:34I'm going to bed.
47:35I'm going to bed.
47:36What's going on in there,
47:37you girls?
47:38Nothing, Mama.
47:39Sounded like somebody whistling.
47:41Mama, it's just Don.
47:42He promised he'd whistle
47:43goodnight to me from the road.
47:45I thought he was a doctor,
47:46not a mockingbird.
47:47Mama, will you make Ben shut up?
47:49Be quiet, Ben.
47:51Can I please whistle back, Mama?
47:54Go ahead, Mariella.
47:55Otherwise he'll be out there
47:56all night.
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