The Triangle

Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] When I was growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia during the Depression, many of the things we take for granted today, back then were luxuries, like going to school. Many boys my age had to quit school and find jobs to help support their families, but my father and mother were determined that each of their offspring would graduate from high school.