The Waltons (TV Series)

The Air Mail Man (1973)

Earl Hamner Jr.: The Narrator

Quotes 

• Narrator : [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal]  The peace and beauty of the land and sky around Waltons Mountain was a source of constant comfort to all of us during those difficult Depression years. Some of the changes that were going on in the world did eventually reflect themselves on our mountain, like the increase in the number of airplanes that spotted the sky. In particular, I remember an airmail plane that used our mountain as a landmark. My mother especially liked to wait for the plane to go over and, sometimes watching, she'd get the look on her face people have when they watch wild geese winging their way south to warm, sunny days.

• Narrator : Today great passenger planes plow through those skies above the Virginia mountains. Last year, one of them brought my mother to see us in California where I now live. We're expecting her again soon, and no doubt our thoughts and our memories will return to those early times when that era we called 'depressed' was so very, very good.