1 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:34,202 [honking] 2 00:01:59,019 --> 00:02:00,788 Whenever I look back to those days... 3 00:02:00,854 --> 00:02:03,491 when I was growing up in the Great Depression... 4 00:02:03,557 --> 00:02:08,662 I am always convinced that I came from a remarkable family. 5 00:02:08,729 --> 00:02:10,698 It wasn't that my brothers and sisters and Iwere... 6 00:02:10,764 --> 00:02:13,901 sheltered from the realities of those difficult times. 7 00:02:13,967 --> 00:02:15,836 It was simply that Mother and Father... 8 00:02:15,903 --> 00:02:17,838 had a way of making more of what we had 9 00:02:17,905 --> 00:02:20,073 and less of what we didn't have. 10 00:02:20,140 --> 00:02:21,442 Have more, Grandpa. 11 00:02:21,509 --> 00:02:23,477 No, thank you, daughter. I had my full share. 12 00:02:23,544 --> 00:02:24,812 I'll have more, Mama. 13 00:02:24,878 --> 00:02:26,814 You just wait till the others get theirs. 14 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,383 -There won't be any left. -I made plenty for everybody. 15 00:02:29,450 --> 00:02:32,720 Hot biscuits! You can smell them all the way out to the barn. 16 00:02:32,786 --> 00:02:34,154 The honey's almost gone. 17 00:02:34,222 --> 00:02:38,025 One of you men will have to go out and look for a bee tree. 18 00:02:38,091 --> 00:02:40,361 I saw an oak tree just buzzing with bees 19 00:02:40,428 --> 00:02:42,230 up in John-Boy's Meadow the other day. 20 00:02:42,296 --> 00:02:45,466 Why call it John-Boy's Meadow? He's never going to farm it. 21 00:02:45,533 --> 00:02:47,501 Be too busy being a writer. 22 00:02:47,568 --> 00:02:52,240 I named it John-Boy's Meadow the day he was born, that's why. 23 00:02:52,306 --> 00:02:55,843 Besides, writers can be farmers, too, can't they? 24 00:02:55,909 --> 00:02:58,346 Y'all going after that beehive, Grandpa? 25 00:02:59,913 --> 00:03:03,384 I like to get an early start smoking out them bees. 26 00:03:03,451 --> 00:03:06,119 You're too old to go traipsing around that mountain. 27 00:03:06,186 --> 00:03:08,256 Ever since we got married, my sweetheart 28 00:03:08,322 --> 00:03:10,858 just can't stand me out of her sight! 29 00:03:10,924 --> 00:03:13,327 What do you think you're doing, you old fool? 30 00:03:14,728 --> 00:03:16,430 [laughing] 31 00:03:29,477 --> 00:03:32,480 You rattletrap woods colt. 32 00:03:32,546 --> 00:03:35,383 Don't you quit on me now. 33 00:03:35,449 --> 00:03:37,718 Anywhere near there yet? 34 00:03:37,785 --> 00:03:38,986 It's a ways out. 35 00:03:39,052 --> 00:03:42,590 If I remember, we come to a country store first. 36 00:03:49,730 --> 00:03:51,231 Look out, Ham! 37 00:03:53,066 --> 00:03:56,337 You slug-bellied sod buster! 38 00:03:56,404 --> 00:03:59,873 You slab-headed ridge runner. 39 00:03:59,940 --> 00:04:02,443 I tell you there ain't nothing on God's green earth dumber... 40 00:04:02,510 --> 00:04:05,346 than a back-country sorghum lapper. 41 00:04:10,117 --> 00:04:11,452 [engine starting] 42 00:04:14,422 --> 00:04:17,758 Set the spark, Cora! Set the spark! 43 00:04:21,895 --> 00:04:23,263 [explosion] 44 00:04:25,366 --> 00:04:28,636 And with these it comes to $1.29. 45 00:04:28,702 --> 00:04:30,971 -You're in luck, boys. -Why is that? 46 00:04:31,038 --> 00:04:33,441 'Cause this week, I'm giving two free jawbreakers away... 47 00:04:33,507 --> 00:04:35,909 every time a grocery bill hits $1.25. 48 00:04:35,976 --> 00:04:39,146 We better not take the peaches, Ike. 49 00:04:39,212 --> 00:04:40,781 Why's that, John-Boy? 50 00:04:40,848 --> 00:04:44,552 Mama must have miscalculated. She only gave me $1. 51 00:04:44,618 --> 00:04:46,420 You can forget it this time. 52 00:04:46,487 --> 00:04:48,522 Your mama can pay me when she comes in... 53 00:04:48,589 --> 00:04:50,190 and you get the free jawbreakers. 54 00:04:50,257 --> 00:04:51,525 Thanks all the same. But you know 55 00:04:51,592 --> 00:04:54,161 how she feels about buying on credit. 56 00:04:54,227 --> 00:04:55,796 Yeah. 57 00:04:55,863 --> 00:04:58,599 You've got some change coming from your $1. I'll refigure it. 58 00:05:00,468 --> 00:05:02,336 Here you go. 59 00:05:25,426 --> 00:05:27,495 -Howdy. -Morning. 60 00:05:28,328 --> 00:05:30,498 -Morning to you. -Howdy. 61 00:05:32,366 --> 00:05:34,602 Sure are friendly folks. 62 00:05:34,668 --> 00:05:37,671 Yeah. They're not from around here. That's for sure. 63 00:05:37,738 --> 00:05:38,739 No, sir. 64 00:06:12,139 --> 00:06:13,774 Good morning, gentlemen. 65 00:06:13,841 --> 00:06:15,108 Howdy. 66 00:06:15,175 --> 00:06:16,710 What can I do for you? 67 00:06:16,777 --> 00:06:18,446 Well, sir, you got some cheese 68 00:06:18,512 --> 00:06:20,481 and crackers, you can sell us our lunch. 69 00:06:20,548 --> 00:06:22,315 Don't forget Mama's orange soda. 70 00:06:22,382 --> 00:06:23,917 Orange soda. 71 00:06:23,984 --> 00:06:27,621 Better make that two, my boy and I will share the other. 72 00:06:27,688 --> 00:06:28,956 You're strangers hereabouts. 73 00:06:29,022 --> 00:06:32,493 Yeah, just blowed in from Kansas. 74 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,062 Blowed ain't the word for it. 75 00:06:35,128 --> 00:06:36,497 In a cloud of dust. 76 00:06:36,564 --> 00:06:39,199 Yeah, I heard things got pretty mean up there. 77 00:06:39,266 --> 00:06:40,901 Mean ain't the word, mister. 78 00:06:40,968 --> 00:06:43,471 -How much cheese you want? -A dime's worth will do. 79 00:06:43,537 --> 00:06:45,305 Okay. 80 00:06:45,372 --> 00:06:49,209 Had me a farm till I plowed it. 81 00:06:49,276 --> 00:06:52,846 Wind blew it clear into Missouri. 82 00:06:52,913 --> 00:06:56,116 Okay, here's your dime's worth of cheese. 83 00:06:56,183 --> 00:07:00,153 And here's a nickel's worth of crackers, coming up. 84 00:07:00,220 --> 00:07:06,093 And then we're going to be adding to that the two sodas. 85 00:07:06,159 --> 00:07:08,428 -Anything else? -No. 86 00:07:08,496 --> 00:07:12,165 That's 34 cents. 87 00:07:12,232 --> 00:07:14,868 That's kind of steep, ain't it, mister? 88 00:07:14,935 --> 00:07:18,105 Nine cents for the apples in your boy's pocket. 89 00:07:23,343 --> 00:07:24,645 Some folks will do almost anything 90 00:07:24,712 --> 00:07:27,280 nowadays to help their family. 91 00:07:27,347 --> 00:07:29,016 Some will. 92 00:07:31,552 --> 00:07:34,522 I'm paying, and I'm apologizing, mister. 93 00:07:34,588 --> 00:07:36,056 I'm sorry. 94 00:07:36,123 --> 00:07:38,191 34 cents. 95 00:07:39,893 --> 00:07:42,930 I'm sorry I took them apples, mister. 96 00:07:42,996 --> 00:07:44,898 I truly am. 97 00:07:44,965 --> 00:07:46,600 Fair enough. 98 00:07:55,042 --> 00:07:56,944 Air here smells good, don't it? 99 00:07:57,010 --> 00:08:00,247 Hadn't smelled honeysuckle for a long time. 100 00:08:03,651 --> 00:08:06,954 -You clumsy idiot! -I am not either. 101 00:08:07,020 --> 00:08:11,391 Alright. Tell your ma you saved up. 102 00:08:11,458 --> 00:08:14,562 Old Silas Gully-Jumper ain't as smart as he thought he was. 103 00:08:45,392 --> 00:08:48,161 Mama, can I go visit Aunt Bea in Washington this summer? 104 00:08:48,228 --> 00:08:50,731 We can't afford the train fare, Mary Ellen. 105 00:08:50,798 --> 00:08:52,600 I'm going to be 13 forever... 106 00:08:52,666 --> 00:08:54,401 and it's absolutely the worst possible time 107 00:08:54,467 --> 00:08:56,637 in a person's whole entire life. 108 00:08:56,704 --> 00:08:58,906 You'll live through it. Come on. 109 00:08:58,972 --> 00:09:01,208 Some days I just hate to face the world. 110 00:09:01,274 --> 00:09:04,612 Like to be in my room and not have to say a word to a soul. 111 00:09:04,678 --> 00:09:06,079 That's natural at your age. 112 00:09:06,146 --> 00:09:07,815 I'm going to die on Walton's Mountain... 113 00:09:07,881 --> 00:09:11,284 and never see anything of the world but Charlottesville. 114 00:09:11,351 --> 00:09:15,022 Now, sugar, it's time you found out the world is flat. 115 00:09:15,088 --> 00:09:16,890 Twenty miles past Charlottesville, 116 00:09:16,957 --> 00:09:18,558 it just drops off into nothing. 117 00:09:18,626 --> 00:09:21,862 Daddy, it's not funny. 118 00:09:21,929 --> 00:09:25,432 You oughtn't to tease her like that. 119 00:09:25,498 --> 00:09:29,036 It's going so fast, Liv. 120 00:09:29,102 --> 00:09:31,939 Turn your back, and they're grown up. 121 00:09:36,443 --> 00:09:38,478 I'm thinking of giving this up. 122 00:09:38,545 --> 00:09:41,414 Tobacco's so expensive, anyway. 123 00:09:41,481 --> 00:09:43,651 Good idea. 124 00:09:47,621 --> 00:09:49,556 Daddy! Somebody's coming. 125 00:09:49,623 --> 00:09:51,659 And wait till you see what they're coming in! 126 00:09:51,725 --> 00:09:53,727 Well, let's just take a look. 127 00:09:58,498 --> 00:10:00,934 [explosions] 128 00:10:12,245 --> 00:10:14,882 What in the world.... 129 00:10:14,948 --> 00:10:17,818 It's gonna rattle apart before it gets here. 130 00:10:38,605 --> 00:10:42,209 Howdy, Olivia, John. 131 00:10:42,275 --> 00:10:44,878 John, it's Cora and Ham. 132 00:10:44,945 --> 00:10:47,114 And that must be Job. 133 00:10:47,180 --> 00:10:49,817 Come on, children, and meet your cousins. 134 00:10:49,883 --> 00:10:52,419 -Hello, Cora. -Hello. 135 00:10:55,088 --> 00:10:57,958 -It's good to see you. -Same here. Look at you. 136 00:10:58,025 --> 00:11:00,360 And Job and Ham, come on in, you must be exhausted. 137 00:11:00,427 --> 00:11:02,696 Hi, John. 138 00:11:04,131 --> 00:11:07,701 Look at you. You're getting to be such a big girl. 139 00:11:17,444 --> 00:11:20,280 It's that old jalopy we saw at Ike's store. 140 00:11:20,347 --> 00:11:21,081 Yeah. 141 00:11:21,148 --> 00:11:23,984 Wonder what they're doing here. 142 00:11:25,518 --> 00:11:28,521 It ain't all that much, but we couldn't come empty-handed. 143 00:11:28,588 --> 00:11:30,958 Oh, how nice. 144 00:11:31,024 --> 00:11:33,093 But you didn't have to bring anything. 145 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:34,895 Of course not. You're family. 146 00:11:34,962 --> 00:11:38,265 Well, it'll only be till the end of the month. 147 00:11:38,331 --> 00:11:40,100 Two weeks at the most. 148 00:11:40,167 --> 00:11:42,269 Will you stop apologizing? 149 00:11:42,335 --> 00:11:44,671 It's wonderful to have you stay with us. 150 00:11:44,738 --> 00:11:45,739 Thank you. 151 00:11:47,340 --> 00:11:48,809 Won't be long, though. 152 00:11:48,876 --> 00:11:51,478 We got a job promised in Newport News... 153 00:11:51,544 --> 00:11:53,013 they're going to write us here. 154 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:56,616 You're lucky, Ham. Jobs are hard to find these days. 155 00:11:56,683 --> 00:11:59,319 Losing the farm, there's no other place to have them... 156 00:11:59,386 --> 00:12:04,424 write and it's been my heart's craving to see home again. 157 00:12:04,491 --> 00:12:06,359 You can have our room. 158 00:12:06,426 --> 00:12:09,763 John will move in with the boys, I'll sleep with the girls... 159 00:12:09,830 --> 00:12:12,866 and, Job, you can bunk in with John-Boy. 160 00:12:12,933 --> 00:12:15,168 And we can always put another bean in the pot. 161 00:12:15,235 --> 00:12:18,872 John-Boy, Jason, I want you to meet your Cousin Cora... 162 00:12:18,939 --> 00:12:22,375 her son, Job, and her husband, Ham. 163 00:12:22,442 --> 00:12:24,744 -Howdy, nice to meet you. -Good to meet you. 164 00:12:24,812 --> 00:12:26,279 The size of them boys. 165 00:12:26,346 --> 00:12:29,316 This back country's sure the place to raise them. 166 00:12:29,382 --> 00:12:30,383 Where you folks from? 167 00:12:30,450 --> 00:12:32,152 We've come all the way from Kansas. 168 00:12:32,219 --> 00:12:34,554 Boys, Hamilton here lost his farm in the drought... 169 00:12:34,621 --> 00:12:38,658 and him and Cousin Cora will be staying with us for a spell. 170 00:12:38,725 --> 00:12:41,028 I'm sorry about your farm. 171 00:12:41,094 --> 00:12:43,831 It sure is a bitter thing to see land you've worked... 172 00:12:43,897 --> 00:12:45,765 go swirling off in a cloud of dust. 173 00:12:45,833 --> 00:12:49,069 Last Sunday, the preacher told us all to say a prayer... 174 00:12:49,136 --> 00:12:51,504 that the farmers out West would get rain soon. 175 00:12:51,571 --> 00:12:54,074 You should've waited a little while longer. 176 00:12:54,141 --> 00:13:01,849 Son, it's long come to mind that if God wanted to make it rain... 177 00:13:01,915 --> 00:13:04,784 he don't need us to ask him for it. 178 00:13:08,621 --> 00:13:13,126 Well, let's get your things off the car and stored inside. 179 00:13:13,193 --> 00:13:15,829 -John-Boy, everybody help. -Yes, ma'am. 180 00:13:15,896 --> 00:13:19,599 -Sorry to be putting you out. -You're not putting me out. 181 00:13:19,666 --> 00:13:22,335 Come on, get the car unloaded, and I'll show you the room. 182 00:13:26,439 --> 00:13:28,775 Just take either side of the bed you want. 183 00:13:28,842 --> 00:13:31,444 Makes no nevermind. 184 00:13:31,511 --> 00:13:34,547 I guess I'll just clear out a dresser drawer 185 00:13:34,614 --> 00:13:35,615 here for your things. 186 00:13:35,682 --> 00:13:37,150 What things I've got, I wear. 187 00:13:37,217 --> 00:13:40,921 Don't need a whole drawer for what extras there is. 188 00:13:42,455 --> 00:13:44,791 -You've a long trip from Kansas? -Long enough. 189 00:13:44,858 --> 00:13:46,759 You must be pretty wrung out? 190 00:13:46,826 --> 00:13:48,761 Look... 191 00:13:48,828 --> 00:13:51,899 you don't want me here no more than I wanna be here. 192 00:13:51,965 --> 00:13:54,868 So forget the friendlies? 193 00:13:54,935 --> 00:13:56,937 That's not so. You're welcome here. 194 00:13:57,504 --> 00:13:59,472 Ah-huh. 195 00:13:59,539 --> 00:14:02,976 Job, Mama said to bring you this towel. 196 00:14:03,043 --> 00:14:05,345 Is that somebody's way of saying I need a bath? 197 00:14:05,412 --> 00:14:08,381 I haven't got that close to you. I wouldn't know. 198 00:14:08,448 --> 00:14:10,951 But if you do, help yourself. It's down the hall. 199 00:14:11,018 --> 00:14:12,519 John-Boy, Mama wants you to help 200 00:14:12,585 --> 00:14:15,555 bring in string beans from the garden. 201 00:14:15,622 --> 00:14:17,124 Sure. 202 00:14:38,445 --> 00:14:40,013 Hi. 203 00:14:42,549 --> 00:14:45,852 Mama said you moved around a lot. 204 00:14:45,919 --> 00:14:49,189 Pa's worked here and there. 205 00:14:49,256 --> 00:14:52,993 It must be wonderful to see a lot of places, different people. 206 00:14:53,060 --> 00:14:56,163 Yeah, I reckon. 207 00:14:56,229 --> 00:14:59,466 Ever been to Snowflake, Arizona? 208 00:14:59,532 --> 00:15:01,935 Never even heard of it. 209 00:15:02,002 --> 00:15:04,771 She said you lived in Pittsburgh once. 210 00:15:04,837 --> 00:15:06,906 And in Chicago. 211 00:15:06,974 --> 00:15:10,110 Des Moines, outside of Wichita. 212 00:15:10,177 --> 00:15:11,744 Few other places, too. 213 00:15:11,811 --> 00:15:14,814 Gosh, you've really been around. 214 00:15:14,881 --> 00:15:17,150 Yeah, I reckon. 215 00:15:17,217 --> 00:15:19,752 I've never been any further than Charlottesville. 216 00:15:19,819 --> 00:15:23,991 I've never met anybody who has traveled as much as you. 217 00:15:24,057 --> 00:15:27,460 Like you said, I've been around. 218 00:15:30,330 --> 00:15:33,666 -Cousin Job. -Yeah? 219 00:15:38,705 --> 00:15:41,608 Uncle Ham says for you to come help cut some wood. 220 00:15:46,313 --> 00:15:49,082 Maybe you'd better wait to take that bath. 221 00:15:52,019 --> 00:15:53,586 Which one are you? 222 00:15:53,653 --> 00:15:54,754 I'm Jason. 223 00:15:54,821 --> 00:15:56,323 -How old? -Fifteen. 224 00:16:03,596 --> 00:16:04,998 How old is she? 225 00:16:05,065 --> 00:16:07,667 She's 13. Why? 226 00:16:19,146 --> 00:16:21,281 Jim-Bob, what's kin? 227 00:16:21,348 --> 00:16:24,484 Getting hatched from the same family. 228 00:16:24,551 --> 00:16:26,153 Are you and me kin? 229 00:16:26,219 --> 00:16:28,455 No. We're just brother and sister. 230 00:16:28,521 --> 00:16:31,691 Kin's people you gotta kiss even if they have a mustache. 231 00:16:33,660 --> 00:16:34,727 Oh! 232 00:16:37,230 --> 00:16:39,766 When we get settled... 233 00:16:39,832 --> 00:16:43,070 I'm going to plant me a garden. 234 00:16:43,136 --> 00:16:45,105 Put in... 235 00:16:45,172 --> 00:16:46,573 tomatoes... 236 00:16:46,639 --> 00:16:49,076 and squash... 237 00:16:49,142 --> 00:16:52,412 string beans, and some cucumber. 238 00:16:52,479 --> 00:16:55,315 Seems like it's Ham's place to work the garden. 239 00:16:55,382 --> 00:16:59,986 Well, Ham's trouble is he can't put down roots... 240 00:17:00,053 --> 00:17:01,988 of any kind. 241 00:17:02,055 --> 00:17:04,824 When John worked over in Waynesboro... 242 00:17:04,891 --> 00:17:07,760 he spent so much time there and traveling back and forth... 243 00:17:07,827 --> 00:17:09,529 we just never did see him. 244 00:17:09,596 --> 00:17:11,098 He doesn't make as much money now, 245 00:17:11,164 --> 00:17:14,167 but we're more of a family. 246 00:17:14,234 --> 00:17:16,069 That's the secret, isn't it, Livie? 247 00:17:16,136 --> 00:17:17,504 Secret? 248 00:17:17,570 --> 00:17:20,240 The deciding what's really important in life... 249 00:17:20,307 --> 00:17:23,743 and then working for it. 250 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:29,082 Poor Ham. 251 00:17:39,726 --> 00:17:45,265 My heavens, would you look at this Christmas cactus 252 00:17:45,332 --> 00:17:48,468 It was covered with blooms up until a month ago. 253 00:17:48,535 --> 00:17:51,003 I had one with me when I went West... 254 00:17:51,070 --> 00:17:55,308 but it died along the way. 255 00:17:55,375 --> 00:17:57,844 They're a plant that don't need much attention. 256 00:17:57,910 --> 00:18:00,380 Easy to grow... 257 00:18:00,447 --> 00:18:02,115 if they've got the right soil. 258 00:18:08,155 --> 00:18:10,823 Maybe that was the trouble. 259 00:18:13,826 --> 00:18:16,329 Do you know where Daddy left his pipe and tobacco? 260 00:18:16,396 --> 00:18:19,766 I think they're beside the radio. 261 00:18:19,832 --> 00:18:21,601 Remind him what time it is. 262 00:18:21,668 --> 00:18:24,471 He'll miss Burns and Allen if he doesn't get in here. 263 00:18:26,206 --> 00:18:28,741 Could be this line's got dirt in it. 264 00:18:31,378 --> 00:18:35,382 Yeah, the carburetor probably needs cleaning, too. 265 00:18:35,448 --> 00:18:40,653 Man in St. Louis tried to sell me a set of plugs. 266 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:42,255 Well, well. 267 00:18:42,322 --> 00:18:44,491 We'll check them out in the morning. 268 00:18:44,557 --> 00:18:48,127 Yeah, just as long as this old heap gets me to Newport News. 269 00:18:48,195 --> 00:18:49,629 For Cora's sake, though 270 00:18:49,696 --> 00:18:53,099 I'd like to find something around here. 271 00:18:53,166 --> 00:18:54,467 Here's your pipe, Daddy. 272 00:18:54,534 --> 00:18:56,336 Mama says to remind you what time it is. 273 00:18:56,403 --> 00:18:59,472 We'll be right in, honey. You go warm up the radio. 274 00:18:59,539 --> 00:19:01,808 Okay. 275 00:19:01,874 --> 00:19:04,811 I tell you, John, you're blessed in a lot of ways. 276 00:19:04,877 --> 00:19:08,215 This house, all this land. 277 00:19:08,281 --> 00:19:09,882 How much acreage you got? 278 00:19:09,949 --> 00:19:13,386 I got about 12 acres. Grandpa divided it equally. 279 00:19:13,453 --> 00:19:15,255 You're sure privileged to have it handed 280 00:19:15,322 --> 00:19:16,923 to you on a silver platter. 281 00:19:16,989 --> 00:19:21,160 The rest of us got to scratch and claw and bite. 282 00:19:21,228 --> 00:19:24,397 If a man don't reach out and take... 283 00:19:24,464 --> 00:19:27,967 he gets what goes over the fence last, every time. 284 00:19:28,034 --> 00:19:29,569 I tell you, Ham... 285 00:19:29,636 --> 00:19:33,105 there's plenty of land for those willing to work shares. 286 00:19:33,172 --> 00:19:35,242 I tell you, John, it tears at a man 287 00:19:35,308 --> 00:19:36,843 to see his family do without. 288 00:19:36,909 --> 00:19:38,878 Plenty are saying that, nowadays. 289 00:19:46,152 --> 00:19:47,887 Say, Gracie, if only the world 290 00:19:47,954 --> 00:19:49,489 would recognize my singing voice. 291 00:19:49,556 --> 00:19:51,491 Well, it does, George. 292 00:19:51,558 --> 00:19:53,526 Everyone recognizes your singing voice. 293 00:19:53,593 --> 00:19:55,194 -Really? -Well, sure... 294 00:19:55,262 --> 00:19:59,766 it's after they recognize it that the trouble starts. 295 00:19:59,832 --> 00:20:03,102 For some reason my voice just doesn't seem to sell. 296 00:20:03,169 --> 00:20:05,338 Lots of people think it does. 297 00:20:05,405 --> 00:20:08,708 -Think it sells? -Oh, sells! 298 00:20:11,944 --> 00:20:16,549 What fools they are. You have a beautiful voice. 299 00:20:16,616 --> 00:20:18,751 -You really think so? -Oh, yes. 300 00:20:18,818 --> 00:20:22,389 You sound like a nightingale.... 301 00:20:25,091 --> 00:20:26,359 But I never get a chance. 302 00:20:26,426 --> 00:20:28,461 I know, dear. Just like that.... 303 00:20:28,528 --> 00:20:30,062 Seems to me that using past failures 304 00:20:30,129 --> 00:20:31,998 as the seed for tomorrow's defeats... 305 00:20:32,064 --> 00:20:35,335 is a poor waste of the garden of life God has given us. 306 00:20:35,402 --> 00:20:36,903 They tried to drown you out. 307 00:20:36,969 --> 00:20:38,871 Only it's worse than it sounds... 308 00:20:38,938 --> 00:20:42,909 they tried to drown you out in the swimming pool. 309 00:20:42,975 --> 00:20:44,511 Thank goodness, Jack.... 310 00:20:44,577 --> 00:20:47,347 He's just wandered from one place to another... 311 00:20:47,414 --> 00:20:49,816 and never made a go of it anywhere. 312 00:20:49,882 --> 00:20:53,019 And Job's just following right in his footsteps. 313 00:20:53,085 --> 00:20:55,388 [whistling] 314 00:21:12,071 --> 00:21:14,374 It's just rabbit tobacco. 315 00:21:14,441 --> 00:21:17,209 Just don't set the place on fire. 316 00:21:17,276 --> 00:21:19,346 You're gonna tell? 317 00:21:21,714 --> 00:21:24,584 Mary Ellen, why don't you just learn to use your brain? 318 00:21:28,855 --> 00:21:32,124 John-Boy, don't go. Help me scrub some potatoes. 319 00:21:32,191 --> 00:21:33,793 I'll get them, you don't have to. 320 00:21:33,860 --> 00:21:36,563 You get those berries to Grandma. 321 00:21:45,405 --> 00:21:48,641 Mary Ellen, you will go to your room 322 00:21:48,708 --> 00:21:51,344 and learn 10 verses of the Bible before supper. 323 00:21:51,411 --> 00:21:52,579 But, Mama-- 324 00:21:52,645 --> 00:21:55,014 Any backtalk and you will learn 15. 325 00:21:57,216 --> 00:21:59,786 And put on something decent. 326 00:22:02,154 --> 00:22:04,724 You watch your step, young man. 327 00:22:06,325 --> 00:22:07,760 You snitch! 328 00:22:07,827 --> 00:22:10,463 -I didn't say a word. -Fifteen Bible verses! 329 00:22:10,530 --> 00:22:12,632 Won't do you a bit of harm! 330 00:22:38,958 --> 00:22:40,727 Hi, Mr. Godsey. 331 00:22:40,793 --> 00:22:44,296 Hi, Yancy. 332 00:22:44,363 --> 00:22:46,032 I want you to meet Ham Denby. 333 00:22:46,098 --> 00:22:48,300 This is Ike Godsey and that's Yancy Tucker. 334 00:22:48,367 --> 00:22:49,669 -Howdy. -Howdy. 335 00:22:49,736 --> 00:22:52,739 -Ike and me, we met. -Had us a transaction. 336 00:22:52,805 --> 00:22:55,341 That bacon was yours, I thought so. 337 00:22:55,408 --> 00:22:57,844 Nobody smokes bacon like Ike Godsey. 338 00:22:57,910 --> 00:22:59,378 Bacon? 339 00:22:59,446 --> 00:23:01,481 You're wrong about that, Cousin John. 340 00:23:01,548 --> 00:23:04,183 I picked that bacon up coming through Kentucky. 341 00:23:04,250 --> 00:23:08,020 Somebody must have your smoking secret in Kentucky. 342 00:23:08,087 --> 00:23:09,856 Are you kin to John? 343 00:23:09,922 --> 00:23:13,059 He's married to my cousin Cora. You remember Cora, don't you? 344 00:23:13,125 --> 00:23:17,664 Cora. The pretty little thing that went off to Kansas to live? 345 00:23:17,730 --> 00:23:21,267 Ham here is expecting a letter from Newport News, care of us. 346 00:23:21,333 --> 00:23:24,070 We were hoping you can keep your eye open for it. 347 00:23:24,136 --> 00:23:25,638 Glad to. 348 00:23:30,910 --> 00:23:34,747 -Yancy, how've you been? -Good, thank you. 349 00:23:34,814 --> 00:23:38,017 Sure had me a nice meal last night, thanks to you all, John. 350 00:23:38,084 --> 00:23:39,151 How's that? 351 00:23:39,218 --> 00:23:41,721 Shot me a mess of quail up at John-Boy's Meadow. 352 00:23:41,788 --> 00:23:45,825 Sure be a shame when he builds up there, chases that covey off. 353 00:23:45,892 --> 00:23:48,427 Ain't going to happen for years, he's still a young squirt. 354 00:23:48,495 --> 00:23:51,698 Him wanting to be a writer, it'll likely never happen. 355 00:23:51,764 --> 00:23:56,969 It's a shame, too. That land is just begging for seed. 356 00:23:57,036 --> 00:24:01,674 Ike, could I see you for a minute? Excuse us, Yancy, Ham. 357 00:24:08,615 --> 00:24:10,550 Seems to me I've seen you somewhere. 358 00:24:10,617 --> 00:24:13,452 No, I'm spanking new around these parts. 359 00:24:17,657 --> 00:24:19,325 I don't think so. 360 00:24:19,391 --> 00:24:23,496 Guess you just remind me of somebody I've run into. 361 00:24:23,563 --> 00:24:26,432 What were you saying about that John-Boy's Meadow? 362 00:24:26,499 --> 00:24:29,902 Prettiest piece of land the Lord ever made. 363 00:24:29,969 --> 00:24:31,838 I understand old man Walton... 364 00:24:31,904 --> 00:24:34,073 divided that up amongst all of his boys. 365 00:24:34,140 --> 00:24:37,810 I believe that's what happened, yes, sir. 366 00:24:37,877 --> 00:24:42,048 I wonder what happened to Cora's daddy's portion. 367 00:24:42,114 --> 00:24:44,016 I don't rightly know. 368 00:24:44,083 --> 00:24:47,286 I guess you'd have to ask old Mr. Walton about that. 369 00:24:47,353 --> 00:24:51,858 Remember you said you needed rewiring done a while back? 370 00:24:51,924 --> 00:24:54,360 Yeah, I've still been wanting it cared for. 371 00:24:54,426 --> 00:24:59,065 Well, I'm going to have some free time the next few days. 372 00:24:59,131 --> 00:25:01,167 How about the day after tomorrow? 373 00:25:01,233 --> 00:25:03,002 Good. 374 00:25:03,069 --> 00:25:05,872 All same to you, we don't have to have money change hands... 375 00:25:05,938 --> 00:25:08,074 I could take it out in groceries. 376 00:25:08,140 --> 00:25:10,710 It's okay by me, John. 377 00:25:10,777 --> 00:25:13,079 That way I can... 378 00:25:13,145 --> 00:25:15,582 pay for some bacon we've been eating. 379 00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:23,990 I seen you was out of tobacco. It ain't nothing. 380 00:25:24,056 --> 00:25:26,525 I picked it up while you two was inside talking. 381 00:25:26,593 --> 00:25:28,027 I gave the money to that Yancy fellow. 382 00:25:28,094 --> 00:25:30,963 Say, he's quite a character, ain't he? 383 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,422 Ain't that just like John and Livie Walton? 384 00:25:56,488 --> 00:26:00,359 Take in kin, house and feed them when times are like they are. 385 00:26:00,426 --> 00:26:01,894 Yeah. 386 00:26:01,961 --> 00:26:03,229 I sure hope that business about 387 00:26:03,295 --> 00:26:07,600 bread cast upon the water is true. 388 00:26:07,667 --> 00:26:09,501 There are times, sad to say... 389 00:26:09,568 --> 00:26:11,804 when bread upon the waters comes back 390 00:26:11,871 --> 00:26:14,807 good for nothing except a soggy sandwich. 391 00:26:19,679 --> 00:26:21,814 Split a cookie with you. 392 00:26:32,158 --> 00:26:33,826 Hey, Ben. 393 00:26:35,194 --> 00:26:38,030 Hey, you think that's going to get off the ground? 394 00:26:38,097 --> 00:26:40,767 Sure it is. 395 00:26:40,833 --> 00:26:43,636 Would you show a fellow the lay of the land around here? 396 00:26:43,703 --> 00:26:45,638 Any place you want to see special? 397 00:26:45,705 --> 00:26:48,340 Place called John-Boy's Meadow. 398 00:26:48,407 --> 00:26:50,076 Come on, I'll show you. 399 00:27:07,827 --> 00:27:10,997 -I'm sorry, I should've knocked. -Not at all. 400 00:27:11,063 --> 00:27:15,034 I aired this quilt out today, and I thought I'd.... 401 00:27:15,101 --> 00:27:18,604 Why, Cora, you have such beautiful hair. 402 00:27:18,671 --> 00:27:19,839 Why, thank you. 403 00:27:19,906 --> 00:27:23,075 You should wear it loose. 404 00:27:23,142 --> 00:27:26,578 -Do you really think so? -I do. 405 00:27:26,645 --> 00:27:28,580 I've pinned it up for so many years. 406 00:27:28,647 --> 00:27:31,417 Ham never liked it down loose. 407 00:27:31,483 --> 00:27:33,119 Said it got in the way of work. 408 00:27:33,185 --> 00:27:36,022 You should just gather it and tie it at the back. 409 00:27:38,357 --> 00:27:40,893 When did you quilt that Grandmother's Flower Garden? 410 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:42,428 I finished this one last winter. 411 00:27:42,494 --> 00:27:43,963 It's lovely. 412 00:27:44,030 --> 00:27:46,799 I'm going to throw away all those old quilts... 413 00:27:46,866 --> 00:27:49,501 I brought from Kansas, and when we get settled... 414 00:27:49,568 --> 00:27:51,771 I'm going to quilt me brand new ones. 415 00:27:51,838 --> 00:27:53,472 I recall a Jacob's Ladder you had. 416 00:27:53,539 --> 00:27:56,743 You ought to. You helped me do it. You and Maggie Collyer. 417 00:27:56,809 --> 00:28:00,212 Do you remember that? 418 00:28:00,279 --> 00:28:02,414 I'm beginning to remember a lot of things. 419 00:28:19,999 --> 00:28:23,669 -John-Boy? -Yeah? 420 00:28:23,736 --> 00:28:25,738 I saw somebody do something wrong 421 00:28:25,805 --> 00:28:27,306 and then tell a lie about it-- 422 00:28:27,373 --> 00:28:30,042 If you're going to be a tattletale, don't wanna hear it. 423 00:28:30,109 --> 00:28:32,578 -But it's Cousin-- -I don't care who it is... 424 00:28:32,644 --> 00:28:34,413 why don't you just go and talk to them 425 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,548 and let them set it right? 426 00:28:36,615 --> 00:28:38,150 Leave me out of it. 427 00:28:48,394 --> 00:28:49,996 Thanks for the use of your truck, Ham, 428 00:28:50,062 --> 00:28:52,164 parts for mine should be in soon. 429 00:28:52,231 --> 00:28:53,766 I couldn't see you walking clear down 430 00:28:53,833 --> 00:28:55,968 to Godsey's place by yourself. 431 00:28:56,035 --> 00:28:57,870 Besides, I can't help with the rewiring job, 432 00:28:57,937 --> 00:29:02,008 I'm all thumbs on a thing like that. 433 00:29:02,074 --> 00:29:04,510 It's a one-man job, anyway. See you tonight. 434 00:29:18,057 --> 00:29:21,293 You must be thinking somewhat the way I'm thinking. 435 00:29:28,034 --> 00:29:30,336 -Jason. -Ham. 436 00:29:34,841 --> 00:29:37,209 Doing some hoeing? 437 00:29:37,276 --> 00:29:40,046 Yeah. 438 00:29:40,112 --> 00:29:41,780 If you'd like something to do, 439 00:29:41,848 --> 00:29:44,283 I have a chore or two you could help out with. 440 00:29:44,350 --> 00:29:45,284 Surely. 441 00:29:45,351 --> 00:29:47,854 Livie's border there needs some manure. 442 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:49,856 Her petunias are doing poorly. 443 00:29:49,922 --> 00:29:52,258 You come along, I'll show you the manure. 444 00:30:10,376 --> 00:30:12,845 Getting any bites? 445 00:30:13,679 --> 00:30:15,281 Wrong time of day, I guess. 446 00:30:25,191 --> 00:30:27,726 Kind of nice being here. 447 00:30:27,793 --> 00:30:29,561 Just the two of us. 448 00:30:29,628 --> 00:30:33,432 It's a pretty spot, isn't it? 449 00:30:33,499 --> 00:30:36,068 Nobody for miles around. 450 00:30:38,004 --> 00:30:41,307 What are you getting at? 451 00:30:41,373 --> 00:30:45,244 I don't know. Fool around, maybe? 452 00:30:45,311 --> 00:30:48,915 You come near me, and I'll bash your head in with a rock. 453 00:30:50,216 --> 00:30:52,418 No need to be so touchy. 454 00:31:03,462 --> 00:31:07,133 -Uncle Ham? -Little lady. 455 00:31:07,199 --> 00:31:09,268 If somebody does something wrong... 456 00:31:09,335 --> 00:31:13,339 the important thing is for them to set it right. 457 00:31:13,405 --> 00:31:16,275 Wrong been done? 458 00:31:16,342 --> 00:31:20,079 I saw you snitch that tobacco from Ike Godsey. 459 00:31:20,146 --> 00:31:22,048 You saw wrong. 460 00:31:22,114 --> 00:31:23,882 Yancy Tucker was standing right with me 461 00:31:23,950 --> 00:31:26,552 when I put that dime on the counter. 462 00:31:26,618 --> 00:31:28,620 Yancy was on the other side of the store 463 00:31:28,687 --> 00:31:30,289 when you took that tobacco. 464 00:31:30,356 --> 00:31:33,625 Well, now, you are a real disappointment. 465 00:31:33,692 --> 00:31:36,795 I never thought I'd see a child of John and Livie's sass back... 466 00:31:36,862 --> 00:31:40,466 question their elders, same as call them a liar to their faces. 467 00:31:40,532 --> 00:31:43,102 -But I-- -You go on and clear out. 468 00:31:43,169 --> 00:31:46,205 And you're just lucky that I don't tell your pa. 469 00:31:46,272 --> 00:31:48,807 Now go on, clear out of here. 470 00:31:48,874 --> 00:31:50,542 Go on. 471 00:32:25,677 --> 00:32:29,415 -Who are you writing that to? -Nobody. 472 00:32:29,481 --> 00:32:33,219 Then what did you put it down in that tablet for? 473 00:32:33,285 --> 00:32:35,321 It's none of your business. 474 00:32:35,387 --> 00:32:37,990 -You were writing about my pa. -I was writing about a lot of-- 475 00:32:38,057 --> 00:32:39,992 You were writing about me and Ma and Pa! 476 00:32:40,059 --> 00:32:42,294 Okay, have it your way. 477 00:32:42,361 --> 00:32:45,764 You ain't got no right to say them things. 478 00:32:45,831 --> 00:32:48,467 I've got a right to think anything I want. 479 00:32:54,406 --> 00:32:57,276 What have you got to back it up with? 480 00:32:57,343 --> 00:32:59,445 -What? -You heard me. 481 00:32:59,511 --> 00:33:00,946 Come on, cut it out! 482 00:33:01,013 --> 00:33:04,750 -Show me how tough you are. -I didn't say I was tough. 483 00:33:04,816 --> 00:33:08,087 Show me how right you are about what you wrote in that tablet. 484 00:33:08,154 --> 00:33:11,223 I'm not gonna fight you. 485 00:33:11,290 --> 00:33:13,692 I could have figured. 486 00:33:13,759 --> 00:33:15,594 You pantywaist. 487 00:33:30,309 --> 00:33:33,145 Hello, sweetheart. 488 00:33:35,314 --> 00:33:37,516 What have you got there? 489 00:33:37,583 --> 00:33:41,487 I got 10 hours of rewiring Ike Godsey's store. 490 00:33:45,357 --> 00:33:49,295 Everything alright around here? 491 00:33:49,361 --> 00:33:51,763 Something's wrong with this house, John. 492 00:33:51,830 --> 00:33:54,433 Mary Ellen's in the worst mood she's ever had... 493 00:33:54,500 --> 00:33:56,235 Erin cried herself to sleep... 494 00:33:56,302 --> 00:34:02,374 and John-Boy hasn't said a word to anyone. 495 00:34:02,441 --> 00:34:04,776 What if there is no letter? 496 00:34:04,843 --> 00:34:08,714 I've been thinking about that the last day or so. 497 00:34:08,780 --> 00:34:12,151 I thought about it after the first week. 498 00:34:13,785 --> 00:34:17,223 Well, we should know soon enough. 499 00:34:17,289 --> 00:34:20,459 He said it was coming by the end of the month. 500 00:34:20,526 --> 00:34:23,129 That was the day before yesterday. 501 00:34:34,673 --> 00:34:37,676 That letter should have been here by now. 502 00:34:37,743 --> 00:34:40,179 I laid awake half the night knowing that. 503 00:34:43,081 --> 00:34:48,154 You said they told you the end of the month at the outside. 504 00:34:48,220 --> 00:34:52,924 Can I help it if they ain't sent it? 505 00:34:52,991 --> 00:34:57,563 Have you given thought to the possibility they never will? 506 00:34:57,629 --> 00:34:59,498 It'll come. 507 00:35:01,700 --> 00:35:03,669 But if it doesn't? 508 00:35:03,735 --> 00:35:05,671 If they don't ever write? 509 00:35:12,344 --> 00:35:14,846 There's land right here we could work. 510 00:35:16,515 --> 00:35:18,817 Place called John-Boy's Meadow. 511 00:35:21,086 --> 00:35:22,188 No. 512 00:35:22,254 --> 00:35:24,256 Now don't say no, Cora. 513 00:35:24,323 --> 00:35:26,258 If we work it right, we just might get it. 514 00:35:26,325 --> 00:35:29,328 -If you was to ask Olivia.... -No, Ham. 515 00:35:29,395 --> 00:35:33,665 The boy ain't gonna use it. I heard him say so. 516 00:35:33,732 --> 00:35:34,733 No. 517 00:35:38,003 --> 00:35:44,009 Cora, I had my share of bad times. More than my share. 518 00:35:44,075 --> 00:35:47,179 I'll not ask for a foot of this land. 519 00:35:47,246 --> 00:35:52,117 Cora, listen, what if you're right? 520 00:35:52,184 --> 00:35:53,519 What if they don't send that letter? 521 00:35:53,585 --> 00:35:55,787 What if they don't mail it from Newport News? 522 00:35:55,854 --> 00:35:59,225 We'll find someplace somewheres and start over. 523 00:35:59,291 --> 00:36:01,660 Find someplace? Like where? 524 00:36:01,727 --> 00:36:04,996 There's all kinds of land we can work on shares. 525 00:36:05,063 --> 00:36:07,366 Shares? I want my own place. 526 00:36:07,433 --> 00:36:11,337 Shares, and this time we say "no moving on." 527 00:36:11,403 --> 00:36:14,440 When the times get hard, we stay and work harder. 528 00:36:14,506 --> 00:36:16,007 No. 529 00:36:16,074 --> 00:36:18,444 -Ham, listen. -No, you listen. 530 00:36:18,510 --> 00:36:21,313 I say what goes in this family. I say what we do. 531 00:36:21,380 --> 00:36:23,148 All I need is a little more time. 532 00:36:23,215 --> 00:36:25,284 Now, you just see to it your sweet cousin 533 00:36:25,351 --> 00:36:26,818 stays as soft as always. 534 00:36:26,885 --> 00:36:30,722 You just see to it that we stay here until.... 535 00:36:30,789 --> 00:36:33,425 Just see to it that they don't chuck us out. 536 00:36:33,492 --> 00:36:36,362 Now you understand? 537 00:36:52,744 --> 00:36:54,846 Well, you two slugabeds finally get up? 538 00:36:54,913 --> 00:36:56,214 Morning, Uncle Ham. 539 00:36:56,282 --> 00:36:59,685 Old bright eyes has been up for hours. Haven't you, John-Boy? 540 00:36:59,751 --> 00:37:00,952 You bet. 541 00:37:01,019 --> 00:37:05,657 Come on, pick some berries with us, Uncle Ham. 542 00:37:05,724 --> 00:37:08,694 Listen, something going on between you two? 543 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,162 -He's a pantywaist. -Now listen. 544 00:37:11,229 --> 00:37:15,634 This is not the time to start any trouble, you understand? 545 00:37:15,701 --> 00:37:16,902 Yes. 546 00:37:24,510 --> 00:37:26,712 Good morning! 547 00:37:26,778 --> 00:37:29,315 Sit down, Ham, let me fix you some breakfast. 548 00:37:29,381 --> 00:37:31,417 It'll be dinnertime shortly. 549 00:37:31,483 --> 00:37:33,819 I'll just have some coffee. I'll fetch it myself. 550 00:37:33,885 --> 00:37:36,922 Oh, boy, that supper you two whipped up last night! 551 00:37:36,988 --> 00:37:39,224 That can last me easy till noon. 552 00:37:39,291 --> 00:37:41,727 Where's John got to? 553 00:37:41,793 --> 00:37:44,563 -Speak of the devil. -Good morning, Ham. 554 00:37:44,630 --> 00:37:47,132 Let me give you a hand. What's on the fire? 555 00:37:47,198 --> 00:37:49,034 -Fire? -Yeah. 556 00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:51,870 Anything I can help with? 557 00:37:51,937 --> 00:37:53,104 No need for that. 558 00:37:53,171 --> 00:37:56,442 There's gotta be a chore or two. 559 00:37:56,508 --> 00:38:00,612 I had such a great night's sleep, I'm just raring to go. 560 00:38:00,679 --> 00:38:02,848 Come to think of it.... 561 00:38:02,914 --> 00:38:06,217 If you'd like, you can pick up things for me at Ike Godsey's. 562 00:38:06,284 --> 00:38:07,753 I'll be glad to, Grandma. 563 00:38:07,819 --> 00:38:10,489 You can check on the mail while you're there. 564 00:38:14,326 --> 00:38:17,929 You just write up the list and I'll crank up the old flivver. 565 00:38:25,337 --> 00:38:26,805 Now, Ma.... 566 00:38:26,872 --> 00:38:30,476 There's been nothing said that wasn't thought by both of you. 567 00:38:37,716 --> 00:38:40,452 Would having done something made you believe more firmly... 568 00:38:40,519 --> 00:38:43,254 -in whatever it was you wrote? -No, sir. 569 00:38:43,321 --> 00:38:46,858 Would it have made your cousin Job believe what you wrote? 570 00:38:46,925 --> 00:38:48,026 Not likely. 571 00:38:48,093 --> 00:38:50,662 Then fighting wouldn't have been the answer, then? 572 00:38:50,729 --> 00:38:53,031 Well, now he's got me marked down as a coward. 573 00:38:53,098 --> 00:38:59,237 It don't make no difference what he thinks. Are you a coward? 574 00:38:59,304 --> 00:39:02,040 What's the worst he could do to me? Break my nose? 575 00:39:02,107 --> 00:39:06,211 I guess that's some kind of an answer. 576 00:39:06,277 --> 00:39:07,546 I'm not afraid of him. 577 00:39:07,613 --> 00:39:08,780 Then what difference does it make 578 00:39:08,847 --> 00:39:14,052 what he's got you marked down for? 579 00:39:14,119 --> 00:39:17,122 There's some things you've got to fight for, aren't there? 580 00:39:17,188 --> 00:39:20,492 You bet there are. 581 00:39:20,559 --> 00:39:22,093 Well, then? 582 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,431 That's something that everybody has to decide for himself. 583 00:39:25,497 --> 00:39:27,733 But once he's decided, that's it. 584 00:39:44,716 --> 00:39:47,085 I wasn't sure which of these Grandma wanted for dinner... 585 00:39:47,152 --> 00:39:50,756 so we just shot right back. I'm gonna take them on inside. 586 00:40:02,367 --> 00:40:06,605 -No letter. -Mail hadn't come yet. 587 00:40:06,672 --> 00:40:09,475 -You gonna go back for it? -No. 588 00:40:11,209 --> 00:40:18,016 There's not gonna be any letter. You know that. 589 00:40:18,083 --> 00:40:20,719 How about you and me have a cup of coffee? 590 00:40:29,394 --> 00:40:30,896 Ben, take these in the house. 591 00:40:30,962 --> 00:40:33,565 Grandpa, I'm going to milk the cow. 592 00:40:38,436 --> 00:40:42,674 You can scare a person to death jumping out at them like that? 593 00:40:42,741 --> 00:40:45,210 Scaring you wasn't what I had in mind. 594 00:40:45,276 --> 00:40:47,879 Now don't! Quit that! 595 00:40:51,917 --> 00:40:54,620 The marines to the rescue. 596 00:40:56,221 --> 00:40:58,189 Get in the house, Mary Ellen. 597 00:41:01,359 --> 00:41:03,294 Don't fight him, John-Boy. 598 00:41:03,361 --> 00:41:06,632 Don't let my being bigger than you stop you, pantywaist. 599 00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:10,502 I won't. 600 00:41:16,041 --> 00:41:17,843 [intense music] 601 00:41:58,784 --> 00:42:00,151 You two better come up with something 602 00:42:00,218 --> 00:42:03,589 special to account for the way you look. 603 00:42:08,694 --> 00:42:12,063 Of all the time to pull something like this! 604 00:42:12,130 --> 00:42:13,665 Get out. 605 00:42:13,732 --> 00:42:16,835 What in the world could make you do a thing like this? 606 00:42:16,902 --> 00:42:18,403 I'll help you clean that cut. 607 00:42:18,469 --> 00:42:20,572 I'm alright. Let me do it, okay? 608 00:42:29,447 --> 00:42:34,085 You're going to tell us what this is all about? 609 00:42:34,152 --> 00:42:36,554 No, sir, I'm not. 610 00:42:36,622 --> 00:42:40,291 This is more than two youngsters fighting. 611 00:42:40,358 --> 00:42:43,995 Job, you got anything to say? 612 00:42:44,062 --> 00:42:45,330 I reckon not. 613 00:42:45,396 --> 00:42:47,899 It had something to do with what we was talking about... 614 00:42:47,966 --> 00:42:52,170 in the strawberry patch. Wasn't that it? 615 00:42:52,237 --> 00:42:54,906 What it was you wrote? 616 00:42:54,973 --> 00:42:56,642 What are you talking about? 617 00:42:56,708 --> 00:42:58,677 It seems Job took exception to something 618 00:42:58,744 --> 00:43:00,545 John-Boy wrote in his tablets. 619 00:43:00,612 --> 00:43:02,213 It was all about us, Pa. 620 00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,382 About how he didn't think you were carrying your part of... 621 00:43:04,449 --> 00:43:08,586 the load and how you and me and Ma were a burden to everybody. 622 00:43:08,654 --> 00:43:10,656 How he didn't think there was any letter 623 00:43:10,722 --> 00:43:13,024 coming at the end of the month at all. 624 00:43:13,091 --> 00:43:16,928 Am I leaving anything out, John-Boy? 625 00:43:16,995 --> 00:43:19,831 No, I reckon you just about said it all. 626 00:43:22,934 --> 00:43:24,402 We'll be leaving. 627 00:43:24,469 --> 00:43:28,373 Cora, not just yet. 628 00:43:30,075 --> 00:43:32,878 I want to bring up the subject of a little piece of land... 629 00:43:32,944 --> 00:43:36,447 that these folks call John-Boy's Meadow. Shut up, Cora. 630 00:43:36,514 --> 00:43:38,616 I've been talking to people here about this... 631 00:43:38,684 --> 00:43:40,986 and I came up with an interesting fact. 632 00:43:41,052 --> 00:43:43,554 When that mountain was divided up, a share of it... 633 00:43:43,621 --> 00:43:45,290 including John-Boy's Meadow... 634 00:43:45,356 --> 00:43:48,894 was given to Matt Walton, your pa, Cora. 635 00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:52,363 When he died, it should've rightfully passed on to you. 636 00:43:52,430 --> 00:43:56,367 I want you to go start packing the truck. 637 00:43:56,434 --> 00:43:58,870 You help, Job. 638 00:44:00,038 --> 00:44:01,973 Listen, are you out of your mind? 639 00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:04,710 I'm not going to let you turn your back and run off. 640 00:44:04,776 --> 00:44:06,377 This is your land! 641 00:44:06,444 --> 00:44:09,848 Matt Walton was a wanderer, Ham Denby. 642 00:44:09,915 --> 00:44:13,284 He had sand in his shoes, like you. 643 00:44:13,351 --> 00:44:17,388 That was his land for a while, his birthright... 644 00:44:17,455 --> 00:44:19,557 but he sold it back... 645 00:44:19,624 --> 00:44:22,227 and it's Grandpa's now... 646 00:44:22,293 --> 00:44:23,995 to do with what he will. 647 00:44:24,062 --> 00:44:27,866 It's not mine. It's John-Boy's to do with as he pleases. 648 00:44:29,167 --> 00:44:32,203 -John-Boy? -No, Ham. 649 00:44:32,270 --> 00:44:34,639 We're through begging... 650 00:44:34,706 --> 00:44:36,574 crawling... 651 00:44:36,641 --> 00:44:38,676 failing... 652 00:44:38,744 --> 00:44:41,646 making excuses... 653 00:44:41,713 --> 00:44:44,482 running away... 654 00:44:44,549 --> 00:44:47,685 giving up. 655 00:44:49,587 --> 00:44:55,260 Cora, we're at the end of the road. 656 00:44:55,326 --> 00:44:58,129 Not quite. 657 00:44:58,196 --> 00:45:01,800 Out there in that Dust Bowl, in that hot Kansas wind... 658 00:45:01,867 --> 00:45:06,437 my pride just blew away. 659 00:45:06,504 --> 00:45:10,308 But now I got it back... 660 00:45:10,375 --> 00:45:17,282 and we're going on to some other place... 661 00:45:17,348 --> 00:45:21,152 and we're gonna make it on our own. 662 00:45:21,219 --> 00:45:22,754 Aren't we? 663 00:45:37,068 --> 00:45:40,138 By Harry, I said, to the end of the month when we came... 664 00:45:40,205 --> 00:45:42,941 and end of the month's just gone two days. 665 00:45:43,008 --> 00:45:45,944 No way I'll wear out my welcome. No, sir. 666 00:45:46,644 --> 00:45:48,313 Cora? 667 00:45:52,383 --> 00:45:54,052 Cora? 668 00:45:56,287 --> 00:46:01,559 I don't know how many slips I've cut from this cactus. 669 00:46:01,626 --> 00:46:05,363 It's sweet of you to give it to me, it really is. 670 00:46:05,430 --> 00:46:07,432 It'll be nice having a plant again. 671 00:46:09,801 --> 00:46:11,502 Oh, Cora. 672 00:46:13,872 --> 00:46:16,341 Everything's gonna be alright. 673 00:46:17,876 --> 00:46:21,579 Ham can be the man he used to be... 674 00:46:21,646 --> 00:46:24,549 and Job's young. 675 00:46:24,615 --> 00:46:26,617 There's time. 676 00:46:26,684 --> 00:46:28,153 Yes. 677 00:46:32,958 --> 00:46:36,761 I know the life I want. 678 00:46:36,828 --> 00:46:40,731 I don't know where it will be. 679 00:46:40,798 --> 00:46:45,403 But it will be as much like it is here as I can make it. 680 00:47:09,494 --> 00:47:13,031 You better get a move on before Pa blows his top. 681 00:47:13,098 --> 00:47:15,300 Tell your father I'm coming. 682 00:47:15,366 --> 00:47:17,602 Yes, ma'am. 683 00:47:20,005 --> 00:47:23,808 Bless you, John, for everything. 684 00:47:23,875 --> 00:47:25,944 Cora, we didn't do much. 685 00:47:26,011 --> 00:47:28,079 You did more than you know. 686 00:47:52,703 --> 00:47:55,040 Jim-Bob, get down off there. 687 00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:12,357 We heard from Cora a few times after they left. 688 00:48:12,423 --> 00:48:14,192 They settled finally in upstate New York, 689 00:48:14,259 --> 00:48:16,928 in a place called the Mohawk Valley... 690 00:48:16,995 --> 00:48:18,964 and they did alright farming. 691 00:48:19,030 --> 00:48:21,332 Grandpa used to say that Ham must have learned... 692 00:48:21,399 --> 00:48:24,335 one of the Walton's secrets in spite of himself. 693 00:48:24,402 --> 00:48:26,771 That the world wasn't, like the song said, 694 00:48:26,837 --> 00:48:28,639 just a bowl of cherries... 695 00:48:28,706 --> 00:48:31,442 but that you had to go out and climb the tree... 696 00:48:31,509 --> 00:48:33,578 and bark your shins a few times doing it 697 00:48:33,644 --> 00:48:37,115 and pick those cherries yourself. 698 00:48:39,817 --> 00:48:45,023 -I'm much obliged to you. -Goodnight, Mary Ellen. 699 00:48:45,090 --> 00:48:47,458 Tonight, I stuck my pin in my geography book... 700 00:48:47,525 --> 00:48:50,295 and it came down on Larkspur, California. 701 00:48:50,361 --> 00:48:52,563 Wouldn't that be a fair place to see? 702 00:48:52,630 --> 00:48:54,099 I guess so. 703 00:48:54,165 --> 00:48:58,269 -Goodnight, Mary Ellen. -Goodnight.