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The Waltons is an American historical drama television series about a family in rural mountainous Western Virginia of the Appalachian Mountains / Allegheny Mountains / Blue Ridge Mountains chain, during the economic hardships and mass unemployment of the era of the Great Depression of the 1930s and subsequent wartime homefront of World War II of the early 1940s.
The Walton family elder, The Grandfather/ Grandpa Walton (Pilot, Edgar Bergen; seasons 1–6, Will Geer), husband of grandma Esther Walton (née Morgan), and father of Benjamin Walton, who was also killed in World War I, John Walton Sr., and an unknown Walton child (early in the first season, Zeb is showing John Boy military medals stored in a ...
The Walton Family Foundation created the Building Equity Initiative to provide charter schools with access to capital to create and expand their facilities. [9] This initiative was established after the foundation announced in 2016 that it would spend $1 billion over the next five years to expand "educational opportunity" by partnering with ...
The Waltons is an American historical drama television series about a family in rural Virginia during the Great Depression and World War II. It was created by Earl Hamner Jr., based on his 1961 book Spencer's Mountain and the 1963 film of the same name.
For example, upon receiving news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, she exhorted the family to "pray, pray, pray." Her role dropped to recurring during The Waltons' final two seasons, though she later resumed her role as Grandma Walton in five of the six Waltons reunion movies between 1982 and 1997, not appearing in the second movie.
In 1970, the family moved to a Subud [6] commune (described by Patricia as a "hippie commune") in Front Royal, Virginia. His wife, Brenda Olivia "Mardi" (née Nowak), died in 1997 from breast cancer. She was Jewish and the daughter of a Holocaust refugee from Poland, while Lewis Arquette, raised a Catholic, [7] was a convert to Islam. [8] [9 ...
[citation needed] She guest starred on many notable television series including Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched, Night Gallery, The Bob Newhart Show, All in the Family, Alice, Phyllis and Whiz Kids. In her eighties, she was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
Earl Henry Hamner Jr. (July 10, 1923 – March 24, 2016) was an American television writer and producer (sometimes credited as Earl Hamner), best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s as the creator of two long-running series, The Waltons and Falcon Crest.