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Date Posted: 18:52:02 01/27/08 Sun
Author: Brenda
Subject: Re: Top 15 Walton's Moments
In reply to: Forrest 's message, "Top 15 Walton's Moments" on 17:09:38 01/27/08 Sun

That's a great list. There is one moment that I think should be added, though:

Earl Hamner's narration in Founder's Day, Season 7.

"There is something within us that tells us all we will ever know about ourselves. There is a destiny that tells us where we will be born, where we will live, and where we will die. Some men are drawn to oceans, they cannot breathe unless the air's scented with the salty mist. Others are drawn to land that is flat, and the air is sullen and as leaden as August. My people were drawn to mountains, they came when the country was young and they settled in the upland country of Virginia that is still misted with a haze of blue which gives those mountains their name. They endured and they prevailed, through flood and famine, diphtheria and scarlet fever, through drought and forest fire, whooping cough and loneliness, through Indian wars, a Civil War, a World War, and through the great Depression, they endured and they prevailed. In my time I have come to know them -

Grandpa, in memory I touch your face, a distance from me now, I feel you near. The Coyote will disappear from the earth, and the whooping crane will follow the passenger pigeon, but you will endure through all of time. Grandma, I touch your hand, and when I do I touch the past. I touch all the small ships that brought us to this country, and all the strong brave women who faced a frontier and made it home.
(Olivia and John) - Strength and love came together here, so not the same they did not seem a pair, bound together they were so much one, all I ever want is what they've had so long, and lived so well.
(Jason) - A brother with an alien name, the ancient Jason went searching for the Golden Fleece, our Jason makes voyages every day, and never leaves the mountain.
(Mary Ellen) - A first baseman grown to wife and mother, soft and stronger as she grew.
(Ben) - A temper always at the ready hides the best of him, but I know my brother as my friend.
(Erin) - A pretty girl deepens into beauty, impatient for time to pass and bring her love.
(Jim Bob) - His head most often in the clouds causes the rest of him to stumble, but seldom really fall.
(Elizabeth) - A little sister full of wonder and far enough behind to be a joy.
(Ike and Corabeth) - And closest family were our neighbors, linked to us in ties as strong as blood.
(The Baldwins) - Gentility and graciousness lived there too, the past flowing into the present, the present blending with yesterday.

I have walked the land in the footsteps of all my fathers, back in time to where the first one trod, and stopped, saw sky, felt wind, bent to touch mother earth, and called this home. This mountain, this pine and hemlock, oak and poplar, laurel wild and rhododendron, home and mountain, father, mother, grow to the sons and daughters to walk the old paths, to look back in pride, in honored heritage. To hear its laughter and its song. To grow to stand and be themselves one day remembered. I have walked the land in the footsteps of all my fathers. I saw yesterday and now look to tomorrow".

Brenda

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