Below is an interview with Paul Hamner, brother of Earl Hamner Jr. Paul grew up in the real life Waltons' home and recalls memories of family life.
I will be adding more segments of this interview in the next few days. Check back for his memories of: the real house vs the house shown to us on TV and many others.
You can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I’ve finished here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MarinaCoa/videos?view_as=subscriber
What was the actor's name who played Mary Ellen's baby?
I was a little boy in the 70s and we lived in a tiny little Texas town probably not too dissimilar from the Walton's Mountain town. And my grandmother lived up the hill from us on her farm property with acres of gardens and sheds and just a wonderland of edible delights with pear trees, strawberries, blueberries, red berries, a grape orchard, fig trees, pecan trees and acres of gardens with every imaginable vegetable -- along with cows and pigs and chickens, and a smokehouse and a well shed (with the well, of course) and a potato shed and, of course, her big old barn where she kept her tools and tillers and gardening supplies (and it had many room…