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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2023 19:31:32 GMT -5
I never really understood that part of the story. If Porter Sims was paid by the government to write a book about Virginia why would people want to know about The Baldwin Sisters Father. Was he that important to Virginian history to make him one of the highlights to the book? I would think at that point in time Porter Sims could have written a lot more important things about Virginia than the Baldwin Sisters father having Yankee Soldiers in his home. I guess he was pretty important or was Grandma right and the entire thing was a boondoggle? Because it's a scandal. He would have been considered a traitor in VA. But was Porter Sims supposed to be writing a scandal book about Virginia or just a book about things within Virginia for people who decide to visit Virginia so they have a guide? |
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Post by Easton on Jan 31, 2023 21:26:47 GMT -5
^ It wasn't a "scandal book". It was a scandal within a Guide Book.
However, knowing the way the treason charge was resolved, It would have made an interesting story in the book. If he hadn't found the outcome, it would have remained a scandal, especially in Miss Emily's and Miss Mamie's minds, and it's doubtful that Porter would have put it in the book. (I don't think he would have even if he hadn't discovered the outcome.)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2023 21:31:19 GMT -5
^ It wasn't a "scandal book". It was a scandal within a Guide Book.
However, knowing the way the treason charge was resolved, It would have made an interesting story in the book. If he hadn't found the outcome, it would have remained a scandal, especially in Miss Emily's and Miss Mamie's minds, and it's doubtful that Porter would have put it in the book. (I don't think he would have even if he hadn't discovered the outcome.)
It would have made for an interesting story that is for sure, but one that would have been out of place in a guide book. That is why I think you are right when you say he would not have put it in the book regardless of what the outcome of the charges were because that sort of story really wouldn't have fit in a guide book at all. |
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Post by Easton on Jan 31, 2023 21:39:58 GMT -5
^ Actually, that's what a guide is all about... interesting stories and 'points of interest'. Anything to show the visitors what to see and do in the state they're visiting.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2023 21:47:43 GMT -5
^ Actually, that's what a guide is all about... interesting stories and 'points of interest'. Anything to show the visitors what to see and do in the state they're visiting. I thought the way John Boy kind of explained it was what he was supposed to be writing about was places people who would be traveling to Virginia and would want to visit. That is what a guide is to me. Information about Judge Baldwin and him having Yankee Soldiers in his home wouldn't really be that unless the book was trying to stir up tourists to go see The Baldwins home and that would have been in a negative light if he wouldn't have found that the treason charge was resolved in a sort of a manner. |
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Post by Easton on Jan 31, 2023 21:50:56 GMT -5
^ Not if the resolution were written into the guide. Judge Baldwin would have come out as a hero instead of a traitor to the readers.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2023 22:00:45 GMT -5
^ Not if the resolution were written into the guide. Judge Baldwin would have come out as a hero instead of a traitor to the readers. Yes if the resolution was written in the book. I still find it hard to believe that back in the 1930's that Judge Baldwin and the Baldwin House would have been a top Virginian landmark that people would be flocking to that wanted to visit Virginia. I can understand how important the Baldwin's were on Waltons Mountain, but for the entire State of Virginia, I would think there would be a lot more important landmarks to write about for a guide book. I totally understand why they brought that into the story to bring it close to Waltons Mountain, but really it seems a bit silly. |
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Post by Emmy on Mar 16, 2023 10:26:40 GMT -5
Now that every time I watch "The Boondoggle" episode I instantly laugh when Elizabeth says "What's A Boondoggle?" now.  |
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