This story contains significant anti-sentiment towards company towns and row houses that the show creator Earl Hamner grew up in.There is a 6 mile radius between Ike's Mercantile and the next General Store.In reality Schuyler ( the town that show creator Earl Hamner grew up ) is 26 miles south-west of Charlottesville. John-Boy points to the north-west of Charlottesville when asked to show the location of Walton’s Mountain.Mr Shelby has never returned, but the flower lovers and bird watchers are waiting." "Although it had been spared, that piece of land was never again to belong to us. In honor of Mary Ellen's efforts Rosemary decides to change the baby’s name to Mary-Margaret. By the time everyone arrives Mary Ellen has already helped Rosemary give birth to her baby girl Margaret. Olivia suggest that she go down to the church to seek solace to lighten her burden.Īs Mary Ellen makes her way to the church she is waved down by Rosemary Fordwich who is having contractions. Mary Ellen talks to her Mama about how she had let Curt down when he needed her the most. Mary Ellen passes out at the thought of the procedure. By the time Doc Willard returns he has to preform an immediate tracheotomy. Martha Rose begins to have trouble breathing. Olivia visits with Rosemary Fordwich while Matthew assembles a crib for their baby. Mary Ellen stays with her while the Doctor makes another house call.
She has broken a good few ribs and needs to go into Charlottesville for some X-Rays. Russell Travis runs in and asks for the doctor’s help after his wife Martha Rose fell off a ladder while trying to get squirrels out of their chimney. She is teaching classes for Rosemary Fordwich who is expecting her first child.Ĭurt and Mary Ellen finish up an appointment with Mrs.
John drops Olivia off at the Walton’s Mountain School. Shelby decides to keep the meadow instead of selling it back to John-Boy. The neighbors decide to preserve the land and not make a quick buck. Shelby arrives with hopes of convincing the land owners to sell their property but John-Boy and Grandpa make impassioned pleas to prevent the mountain from becoming a mining company town. John-Boy asks the Reverend if they can hold the Sunday service up on his meadow. He is still at odds with his grandson.Įsther tries to get Zeb to see reason about John-Boy’s decision to save his press but Zeb wins her over by talking about the importance of the preserving the varieties of wild flowers from John-Boy’s meadow before they are lost to the mining company. John-Boy finds Grandpa up on the meadow saving wild flowers that will be lost now that the land has been sold. The family prepares the farm for a storm that is beginning to brew. He sees the devastating effects that their hydralic mining methods has on the land. John-Boy investigates what the Interstate Land Company is doing in another part of the county. He wants to buy up 80 acres from the other neighbors. Using manipulative tactics he convinces the Godsey's to put a $5 hold of their 12 acres of land.
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Through a series of half truths he reveals that his company is looking to mine gold. Grandpa is beside himself that John-Boy has sold the land to save his press. He believes that their must be some sort of catch but in the end sells his 10 acres of meadow for $40. He is surprised to hear that he could get $4 an acre when it usually goes for about $1 an acre. Carter refers John- Boy to the Interstate Land Company which has been buying land in the area. John-Boy suggests that he has 10 acres of land that he could put up. Carter says that unless he can come up with the collateral to cover his loan then the Bank will have to repossess the printing press on Wednesday. Carter about his arrears payment on the press his has bought from Mr. John-Boy arrives at the Charlottesville Bank and Trust Company to talk to Mr. Ironically, it was I, who violated those traditions and exposed our mountain to a danger unforseen and literally unknown in our sheltered community." Since then, each Walton child had been instilled with a regard for the traditions of the land on which we lived. "The mountain had been our home ever since the first Walton put his axe to a pine tree and built his cabin on a plateau near the summit. Mary Ellen experiences her first challenges as a nurse. In a desperate attempt to make a loan payment on his printing press John-Boy sells his 10 acre meadow that Grandpa gave him on Waltons Mountain.
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