The Elusive Walton's Mountain

Tona and I took a one day excursion recently and decided to go to Walton's Mountain.  You won't find it on a map!

Here's Tona at the entrance to the museum.  It was an old school and converted to a museum/community center.

The sky was blue and made a nice backdrop.  Inside they have a lot of pictures and tried to recreate different scenes from the show using period decorations.

Here is a couple of pictures from Ike's Store.

The Walton's kitchen looked so good.  You almost expected the group to come bounding in as they often did in the show.

I caught Tona reading some information at one of the displays and I was able to get on the other side.  It is hard to get non-posed frontal pictures when you are out. 

The "Sisters" photo board.

The "Brothers" photo board.

John-boys' room

John-boys' room with Tona looking in

This was one of my favorites - a model of the Walton's place.

After we left we went to Lumpkins for lunch and I had to get Tona's picture with the big rooster out front!

All said and done the Walton's were a combination of Earl Hamner's memories and plenty of "artistic" license.