Spencer’s Mountain
By Earl Hamner, Jr. (Buccaneer Books, 1961)
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 247
Via: Interlibrary Loan (Richland Public Library, Richland, WA)
”Times is changen on this old earth, papa, and it looks like we’re goen to have to change right along with ‘em. I don’t mean me and Livy and Mama, but there’s some kind of world out there waiten for my babies and I aim to see ‘em get whatever they can out of it.” – Clay Spencer, Spencer’s Mountain
You may know it as “Walton’s Mountain.” But did you know that the beloved television series about a family growing up in rural Virginia during the Great Depression and WWII created and narrated by Earl Hamner, Jr. was based on his 1961 book Spencer’s Mountain and the 1963 film of the same name? The movie stars Henry Fonda (Clay Spencer), Maureen O’Hara (Olivia Spencer) and James MacArthur (Clay-Boy Spencer. MacArthur is too old for the part, in my opinion. But who’s counting?)
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