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Post by Easton on Nov 22, 2022 8:49:32 GMT -5
Could you have lived on Walton's Mountain during the Depression? Which house would you have liked to live in? (Note that none of the families or people would be living in those homes. There would just be the house, outbuildings, and property. Even the Walton family would not be living there.
Ike's store perhaps? The Baldwin place? Running Flossie's boarding house? Granny Ketchum's place? Martha Corrine's shack before the highway went through? The Walton home itself?
I grew up in a large house with 9 people (parents and children) with 7 children sleeping in 4 beds. We were poor. We grew a lot of our own food. I was the youngest of 4 boys so I was well-acquainted with hand-me-downs. (I was twelve before I got my own pair of pants. They were beige, wide-wale corduroys.
I think me and my family could have lived in the Walton house.
What about you? Could you have survived the Depression on Walton's Mountain?
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Post by whisper on Nov 22, 2022 10:45:57 GMT -5
I think I could. I live pretty thrifty now. I have always thought I was born in the wrong era. I seem to be out of step with modern life . I like to have run the boarding house. With people coming and going , you'd never feel lonely.
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Post by Miss Amy on Nov 22, 2022 12:18:59 GMT -5
I am not sure that I could, but I'd like to give it a try. My parents were children during the depression. I learned a lot from them and my grandparents as far as managing when things are tight. I'd like to live in the Walton House.
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Post by patriciaanne on Nov 22, 2022 13:07:19 GMT -5
Yes -- in a heartbeat. I would live in the Waltons house, have a veggie garden, hunt for food and raise animals for consumption. The "poor" way of life that the Waltons embody is my life goal. Lol
Living during a time of self sufficiency -- when people expected to be responsible for themselves and their own families, but also contributed to their communities and helped their neighbors when possible, made God a central part of their lives -- I would take that time travel trip gladly. I probably wouldn't come back.
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Post by sdw on Nov 22, 2022 14:04:57 GMT -5
I would like to live in The Waltons House and to have a porch swing on the front porch,where I could read.
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Post by laurel02 on Nov 22, 2022 15:24:59 GMT -5
If I could zap into the world of The Waltons I would do it in a heartbeat!
I would happily live in Martha Corrine's shack, although I think that my husband would prefer the Walton house. As long as there was plenty of space for a garden and some flowers, then I'd be happy with anything!
Running the store is a tempting idea, though....
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Post by cinlou on Nov 23, 2022 8:47:33 GMT -5
I am not much of a hunter or gardener so I don’t think I could have survived the Depression. Nowadays I could live in Schuyler, Virginia. It is a lovely little town ( like I live now) and Charlottesville isn’t too far away.
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Post by Heather on Nov 23, 2022 12:27:54 GMT -5
I could absolutely have made it on Walton's Mountain. The way things are now makes me sad. Alot of it is because I miss my family who have gone on, but I always feel like I was born in the wrong time. I don't care for all of the technology and virtual this and that. I would have enjoyed being the shopkeeper, because I'm not much of a gardener and could never kill anything on purpose.
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Post by missyou123 on Nov 26, 2022 17:30:36 GMT -5
I feel the same way. There’s not much love nowadays or sincere concern for one another. I’m a good cook so I would like to have worked in the restaurant Erin worked in. No hunter or gardener either but I get the impression they just made ends meet. I don’t hardly think I would have had seven children. Believe it or not, my daughter feels the same way. She loves sitting around with me and my friends when they come to visit. She always says she was born in the wrong time period. I tell her she was born at the time God wanted her to be born but she can still live with the old girls ways in her heart.
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Post by RebeccaLee on Nov 28, 2022 8:32:22 GMT -5
I love Martha Corrines place. To me it was not a shack but rather a sturdy cabin. When I was young I wanted to build a cabin like that and even designed plans for it and where it would be. My Dad, bless his heart, humored me and showed me on paper how the roof would work. He was a carpenter. Sadly the place I chose which beared our families name turned out to be a grizzly reserve...lol. I took on a modern career but enjoy my garden, canning, sewing and the like. My heart will always be in that cabin in the woods.
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Post by pinkbaker07 on Nov 28, 2022 20:53:21 GMT -5
Granny Ketchum. It was a cute little house.
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Post by Kyle on Nov 29, 2022 0:45:01 GMT -5
I would live at the Baldwin house, with it’s relatively opulent decor, and access to the Recipe machine.
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Post by carol on Nov 29, 2022 1:34:19 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind living at the Baldwin's beach cottage.
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Post by flyaway on Nov 30, 2022 17:39:42 GMT -5
Absolutely!! I like to live in the house that the professors family move into coming out of Germany. Nice pond in front for fishing and food!!
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Post by Easton on Dec 1, 2022 11:20:56 GMT -5
^ I believe that's the house you sometimes see on the other side of Drucilla's Pond. When you look across the pond at the house, the wooden foot bridge is just off-screen to the right.
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