Nostalgia Has It’s Benefits
Growing up not far from the Walton's gave me a special insight into the pleasures of country living.
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Is there really anyone who doesn’t want to revisit a special time and special place — even if that place were only imaginary?
When The Waltons was being cast, series creator Earl Hamner Jr. took one look at the line-up of kids that his casting director picked and gave each one the thumbs up. He thought all the child stars were “wonderful,” but of them all, Hamner said in an interview with the Archive of American Television, “I was most thrilled to get Richard Thomas for the role of John-Boy.”