A writer comes to Walton's Mountain and impresses John-Boy with his tales of literary connections and accomplishments.A writer comes to Walton's Mountain and impresses John-Boy with his tales of literary connections and accomplishments.A writer comes to Walton's Mountain and impresses John-Boy with his tales of literary connections and accomplishments.
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- Olivia Walton
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- Erin Walton
- (as Mary Elizabeth McDonough)
- Jim-Bob Walton
- (as David Harper)
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- (as Earl Hamner)
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- TriviaThe writer quotes from a poem when he spots the abandoned house. The poem was "The House with Nobody in It" by Joyce Kilmer.
- GoofsA.J. Covington's time line is all messed up. He states that he is 45 years old; it being 1933, that puts his birth year as 1888. He tells John Boy he left home at 17 to become a writer which would be 1905. Later he says he had been in Cuba covering the Spanish-American War which ended 7 years earlier in 1898 when A.J. was ten years old. He also says he was tent mates with the writer Stephen Crane, who died in 1900, when A.J. was twelve, five years before he left home.
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A.J.Covington: Don't waste your life searching for the one big story you were born to write. Write the little stories. Who knows, the sum total of them might be the big one. Write about Walton's Mountain, your feelings about your family and this place, just the way you've been doing. Write about how it is to be young and confused and poor, groping, but supported by a strong father and a loving mother, surrounded by brothers and sisters that pester and irritate you, but care about you. Try to capture that in words, John-Boy. That's as big a challenge as the Klondike or the white whale or flying the Atlantic Ocean alone. It was too big for me, but I think you just might be up to it.
- garyldibert
- Feb 27, 2010
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