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Post by Tonyray on Feb 18, 2013 21:35:02 GMT -5
Same era is all I am saying. Never said lifestyle. But wouldn't grandma Walton flip if she knew her parents got free land from the government like so many pioneers of that era did?. Like a government handout she would say.. It really wasn't free. The Homestead Act of 1862The Homestead Acts had few qualifying requirements. A homesteader had to be the head of the household or at least twenty-one years old. They had to live on the designated land, build a home, make improvements, and farm it for a minimum of five years. The filing fee was eighteen dollars. In the 1860's 18 dollars was a lot of money. We homesteaded our land in Alaska we had live on the land, build a home, make improvements, and farm it and because I was a Vietnam veteran only had to to that for 6 months not 5 years. We did it and got the 160 acres.
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Post by Brenda on Feb 18, 2013 21:57:40 GMT -5
That is so interesting, Tonyray, that you have had that homesteading experience. I guess "Uncle Sam is still rich enough to give us all a farm," as Charles Ingalls sang. Do you still live on that land?
I'm sure that homesteading was very hard in Dakota Territory in the 19th century. Many people were unsuccessful and left their land to move back east. The Ingalls family lived on their land for only 7 or 8 years before Charles Ingalls built a house in town where he, Caroline, and Mary lived the rest of their lives. Laura and Almanzo were not very successful homesteaders either, which is why they left De Smet and moved to Mansfield, Mo, which Laura called "the land of the big red apple." Even Almanzo's sister, Eliza Jane Wilder, tried her hand at homesteading and filed a claim in Dakota Territory. She too eventually left her land.
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Post by mtdawg on Feb 19, 2013 0:08:29 GMT -5
Laura in real life depended on Rose for the glossing over of her biography. If you have not read the books, you have misse out.
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Post by sdw on Feb 20, 2013 15:29:23 GMT -5
It would be nice if they done a remake of The Waltons like they did for Dallas.
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Post by Uncle Coaster on Feb 20, 2013 16:47:49 GMT -5
I would love to see something new like Dallas has done or the early years as originally suggested in this thread. Both are something I'd enjoy.
I always felt that if they did any more reunion movies, they should do it around the family gathering to watch the first episode of John Boy's tv series based on the family. An art imitating life sort of thing.
Jeff
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Post by JeannePhx on Feb 20, 2013 17:37:48 GMT -5
They did that exact thing on the Seinfeld show if you recall....when Jerry and George got a contract to produce their "show about nothing". They had an episode where the regular characters watched the first episode of the new pilot show, it was fun to see other actors portraying the regular characters. Too bad we aren't producers to make all these reunion shows & movies we want to see!
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