Earl Hamner Jr. credited as playing...
The Narrator
- Narrator: A house is more than paint and walls, ceilings and floors. A house is a history of all those people it has sheltered. And when we move away, we leave behind us the persons we were then. The prints of our fingers on a doorframe, the marks on a floor we walked, the whisper of our voices, and all those things that were done and said.
- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] By the Fall of 1934, people were beginning to hope that the worst of the Depression was over. Some jobs were opening up and there was an urgency in the country to get up and get going again. There was a restless feeling to life, we all felt it, and my father was no exception. The fall of that year brought him the first real discontent we ever knew him to have.