Mornin' John Boy

[swee'pea99]

Series 1, Episode 1 of The Waltons tomorrow morning on True Entertainment at 11.00. TV at its hardest-hitting. Don't miss it.

 

[Saluki]

Sky + set up and raring to go.

Night @swee'pea99

 

[Gravity Aided]

That was one depressing depression they went through. My Father's generation went through it, and they seemed to have had it about as bad. When everything seemed at its' worst, a big dust storm hit.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

That was one depressing depression they went through. My Father's generation went through it...

Are you talking about the actual depression or series 1 of The Waltons?

 

[Maverick Goose]

Take care y'all

 

[Fnaar]

I 'had a thing' about Mary Ellen (or 'Hairy Melon' as we called her). The actress eventually appeared in Playboy in an effort to shed her 'goody goody' image.

 

[swee'pea99]

That was one depressing depression they went through. My Father's generation went through it, and they seemed to have had it about as bad. When everything seemed at its' worst, a big dust storm hit.

You remind me of one of the many amusing tales in my superb volume Nirvana Bleach, available now in no good bookstores:

John Steinbeck's widow once gave a reading of some of his works to a hall full of students in China. After she'd finished, she was approached by one of the audience, who told her that her husband's work was held in very high regard thereabouts, "particularly his novel 'Angry Raisins.'"

 

[Fnaar]

You remind me of one of the many amusing tales in my superb volume Nirvana Bleach, available now in no good bookstores:

John Steinbeck's widow once gave a reading of some of his works to a hall full of students in China. After she'd finished, she was approached by one of the audience, who told her that her husband's work was held in very high regard thereabouts, "particularly his novel 'Angry Raisins.'"

Angry Raisins....brilliant.
I have Nirvana Bleach on my kindle app, but I have to admit I haven't read it yet. But I will do.

 

[accountantpete]

More of A Little House On The Prairie man myself...

 

[Fnaar]

More of A Little House On The Prairie man myself...

I love that show, still.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Are you talking about the actual depression or series 1 of The Waltons?

The actual one, although most of the older folks I talked too thought season one did a fine job of representing it.

 

[Gravity Aided]

More of A Little House On The Prairie man myself...

If I get up to Pepin, Wisconsin, I'll try and get a picture of Laura Ingalls' birthplace.

 

[Gravity Aided]

[QUOTE 3118990, member: 259"]The book it's based on - Spencer's Mountain - is a very good read. I've never seen the film with Henry Fonda though.[/QUOTE]
That film is interesting, but it looks like it was filmed in the Rockies, not the Appalachians. Earl Hamner had a hand in the Tv show, but not the movie, IIRC.

 

[Fnaar]

Earl Hamner had a hand in the Tv show, but not the movie, IIRC.

I rather liked it when he took up rapping:

 

[Gravity Aided]

You remind me of one of the many amusing tales in my superb volume Nirvana Bleach, available now in no good bookstores:

John Steinbeck's widow once gave a reading of some of his works to a hall full of students in China. After she'd finished, she was approached by one of the audience, who told her that her husband's work was held in very high regard thereabouts, "particularly his novel 'Angry Raisins.'"

I had to compress for space. Actually, I could go on and on about the Depression, but most of it was, according to sources, quite mundane.