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Hi everyone, Thankyou to all of you who dropped by my site to vote again this week for your favourite episode. Grandma Comes Home came out on top, followed by The Scholar. We're into the Grand Finals now, and you should go back to the site and vote once again. Only three choices this time to make things a bit easier. Your final choices for the best Waltons episode EVER are:
The poll will stay open for 2 weeks and hopefully everyone will stop by to cast their vote. I'll talk to you all again next week. Goodnight everyone, Karen.
Good evening Karen: I just got home from work, and exploring my e mail. The stores here in Oakville ( Toronto) are doing the some, the Christmas stuff is all out in full force. We haven't even had Thanksgiving yet. { for us it is next weekend} The leaves are now starting to turn into there nice fall colors. Karen there was a comment about Mary Ellen. When Mary Ellen married Jonesy, she was in a car accident, that left her unable to have any more children. So I guess that they adopted the kids. And for the rest of the Walton clan Ben and Cindy's daughter was all ways called Jenny, it was Cindy's mother that called her Virginia. That's all for now Karen I'll write later, with Thanksgiving coming up next weekend, I will be real busy at work Brenda KAREN'S COMMENT: I always thought that Thanksgiving was in November? Anyway Brenda, enjoy your celebrations. We are left to assume that Mary Ellen and Jonesy probably did adopt any later children but it is not spelt out as such. I think that Ben and Cindy probably called their daughter Ginny, rather than Jenny, but it does often sound like that. In Forrest Gump I could never quite work out whether Forrest's friend was Ginny or Jenny, so it must just be the accent causing confusion!
<<Mary Ellen was shown as having a little boy about 10 years old named Clay, and a little girl>> I thought that after her car accident she couldn't have anymore children? Marni KAREN'S COMMENT: Confusing isn't it? We guess they were adopted.
The unusual pronunciations of "about" and other such words is often referred to as The TideWater accent. It is common in northern Virginia, as well as some areas of North Carolina. My former supervisor of English for Knox County, TN schools (Jacque Bradford) lived here in Knoxville for 30 plus years and never lost the accent. She retired back home to the Washington, DC area of Virginia over the summer. I wonder if she picked up any of the TN accents!! Also, in reply to the question about the controversy over Erin babysitting for a young widower: it would have been considered immoral for a young woman to be unsupervised in an unmarried man's home for any reason. Erin certainly showed her spirit when she refused to give up that second job! The controversy was not resolved since Erin held to her beliefs that she was doing the right thing. G'night all! Debbie P.S. For the couple looking for the recipe----be very careful if you should actually buy the "white lightening". Number one----it is illegal to buy the stuff, and number two----sometimes it is made under unsanitary conditions; people used to die from "bad batches" of the stuff---even getting lead poisoning if they used lead pipes instead of copper. Also if you go back in the woods looking, you just might get shot by some wary moonshiners. Buy yourself some legal and mighty fine Tennessee sippin' whiskey Jack Daniels. KAREN'S COMMENT: Good on Erin for sticking up for herself. She did that quite a bit as she grew older. Sounds like good old Jack Daniels might be a better option! We don't want any Walton Digest members shot just for a sip of the recipe. :-))
Hi all, I was glad to see that someone had asked about Earl Hamner's "accent". I live in Virginia and have never heard that "accent" before anywhere I have gone. It must indeed be a very regional thing. Most often, if you run into someone born and raised in Virginia, the accent is much more Southern sounding. Earl Hamner doesn't sound very Southern to me, so I found this to be particularly interesting. Nancy in Virginia KAREN'S COMMENT: Nancy, as you've no doubt seen, Debbie's letter has explained that it is indeed a regional thing. It's fascinating though. We don't really have regional accents here in Australia, although sometimes you can just pick up a bit of a twang when certain words are pronounced.
Dear Karen, First of all , thanks for all the digests that you've sent over the months. I would have to say that my all time favorite episode is the one where Olivia and John celebrate their Wedding Anniversary , and John builds a gazebo up on the mountain . It's just brilliant. Can anyone tell me if there were any episodes that were made and not shown in Britain ? Baz KAREN'S COMMENT: That is a lovely episode and Olivia has her first sip of alcohol in it! John was very romantic wasn't he. Now I can only speak from an Australian view, but all of the episodes that were made have been screened at one time or another in Australia. I suspect it is the same with Britain, but I'm sure someone will confirm that. It seems to have been that in the USA two episodes were not shown on one of the cable networks which aired the show, thinking that the topics of these shows did not fit in with their philosophy. They have since been aired on TNN. I'm assuming that these episodes were also aired on free to air TV during the original run of The Waltons.
Something happened to me yesterday that made me smile, but it would be lost on anyone other than the people here on the Waltons list and I just had to share it with someone. I was looking through some boxes for my Dad and I came across a small, old New Testament. I opened it up to look at the copyright date and it was 1942. Then I looked at the page where you can write a name and it was a name that I didn't recognize, BUT, the person who had given this New Testament had signed their name, rank, and where they were stationed - Camp Lee, Virginia! Is that ironic or what? Still loving the digests, Karen, I look forward to them every week. KAREN'S COMMENT: So Camp Lee really did exist? Definitely ironic.
To Cindy, Tell your husband that I have a quart of the recipe in my cupboard (SHHHHHHHH!!). I keep it as a novelty to show visitors. I will not be at the reunion, but let me know if you come through the Roanoke Valley. Moonshine is most prevalent in the SW part of Virginia, and may not be as common in the Schuyler area nowadays. JF KAREN'S COMMENT: Do you use some in cake icing (frosting) too? Was that the only thing that the Walton family added some recipe too? I remember how funny it was seeing Grandpa trying to smell Esther's breath when she was asleep to try and find out if it was she who took some of his secret stash of the recipe. :-)
Hello Karen and friends! I am new to your mailing list and since this is my first time to send something to the Digest I will introduce myself. My name is Pat and I live in Carrollton TX, which is a suburb of Dallas. I work in downtown Dallas. I am happily married to Mike and we have six children and one grandson. My children are my daughter, Anna, who is the oldest (23) and then 5 sons - Nicolas (22), Mariano (21) (this is the married one, his wife is Sarah also 21), Mike Jr (20), Jaime (19) and David (9). My husband and I love the Waltons! It reminds us of our own family and the struggles and happiness we have enjoyed and endured over the last 25 years. I actually found your Digest several months ago, but it was from when you first started it in 1997 and I just recently found out how to get to the current stuff. I look forward to reading all the letters from 97, 98 and the first part of this year! My favorite character is Olivia, but I really like all the characters very much. I wish I had a momma like Olivia! My favorite episodes are usually the ones where Olivia is featured prominently. My all time favorite is "The Sermon". I love the scene where the family has a picnic up on the mountain and Olivia and John Boy watch John interact with all the children while he's just standing there admiring the view. After a while Olivia joins him and tells him she's been admiring the view. He says it's beautiful isn't it, and she says it sure is. What he doesn't realize is that what she was viewing was him and I love the way she looks at him when she said "It sure is!". I love the whole episode, but this is my favorite part. Other favorites are "The Prophecy", "The Secret", "The Test" and "The Calf", but just like I like all the characters, I love all the episodes. I have them on tape (all but one or two) and I watch at least one every day! I would like to thank everyone for their input on this Digest. I really enjoy reading all the comments whether I agree or disagree with them and I have learned a thing or two also! Thanks Karen for giving all of us this opportunity! Pat KAREN'S COMMENT: Definitely The Sermon would have to rank among my special favorites too, but it really is hard to pick just one. I second thanking everyone for their input into the Digest. I love reading all the comments too and thanks for yours Pat. I hope now you've taken the first step you'll write more often. :-))
Hi Karen and Waltons fans, In the last Digest, Ron had asked about an all-female band on the show. The only thing I can think of is when Jason is auditioning for a music scholarship to the conservatory, and one of his competitors is a clarinet player who mentions she wants to be in an all-girl band. She mentions the name of the band director and the band, but I can't remember it now. Hope this is of some help to Ron. --Laura KAREN'S COMMENT: You could be right about that Laura. I'll need to have a look again.
Hi, Just to let you know, that I have set-up a voting booth in which one could go and vote on their Favorite Walton Episode: http://www.freevote.com/booth/waltons We are having some pretty cold weather here now, no snow here, but there was some out West around Alberta, Canada. We are also getting ready for Thanksgiving here in Canada this coming Monday, October 11th. I read, that "Mother's Day on Walton's Mountain" will be shown on TNN next week. I like to take a minute out and wish our Canadian friends a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving Day. take care, Shirley KAREN'S COMMENT: Maybe it was the Canadian Thanksgiving that Brenda mentioned. Happy Thanksgiving Day to all of you who are celebrating this weekend. I really do think Thanksgiving is a lovely holiday. As I've mentioned before, we don't celebrate it here, but I can certainly think of many things that I've had to be thankful for this year in particular. Enjoy your holiday weekend.
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