oldfella1962
Senior Member
The Walton's were rich if one compares the way I was raised a sharecroppers grandson raised by his grandpa and grandma who had very little to live in and to live on. Many mornings in winter I awoke to find snow on the old quilt that helped keep me warm in my feather bed on a cold winters nights. The snow blew in thru the cracks in the old house, just weather boarding with no insulation at all and a wood heater that did not keep our house warm even when the sides of the thing glowed red hot. Yeah I agree with you the Walton's were not poor not nearly as poor as my family was and many other folks that we knew back in the fifties that farmed the same way we did.
We only had a wood burning stove in Northern WISCONSIN! In the winter at night we would put in a big piece of maple (no oak near our house) so by morning the house wouldn't be too unbearably cold.