One early memory from around spring of 1971. I was just a little boy dreaming on one of the first warm days of the year. The windows were open in my bedroom and I was woken up by a light breeze pushing the curtains against my face. The radio downstairs was playing "Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted" by the Partridge Family and for a few surreal moments, all was right with the world.
Later that day, I was severely beaten up by a gang of kids on bicycles and so the day did not have such a happy ending. But it sure started out good. The next 8 years of my life were pure hell.
But getting back to Jeopardy, I never really watched that show but I sure did flip by it a number of times while changing channels. Another good show from that lost era - The Waltons. It comes across as a little dopey now but back then, that show was something to look forward to. Were families really like that during the Depression? Everytime I take the I-77 exit off I-81 in Virginia and head towards Charlotte, NC, I think about the Waltons. I'm not sure they actually lived in that section of the Virginia/North Carolina border but it sure feels like Walton country to me - especially when you drive down that long mountain (just after the border).
“What’s my line”
There was a woman, Dorothy Kilgallen, on that show, who I think had incriminating evidence about JFK.
She died under strange circumstances, I believe.
More tangents than a trig exam. :)
Patches
I’m depending on you, son
To pull the family through
My son, it’s all left up to you
Two days later papa passed away
And I became a man that day
Walton’s Mountain Museum - Schuyler, Virginia http://www.virginiawind.com/virginia_travel/waltons_mountain.asp
huh?