Remember The Baldwin Sisters?

Remember "the recipe"? Remember John Boy and Waltons Mountain?

Well, I do. When I was little (9, 10 years old), one of my very favorite shows was The Waltons. John Boy was somebody I actually related to. Yes, at the age of 9, I was cosmically connected to a fictional young male adult in the roaring Depression. It is true though. I often think I was born in the wrong time.

Anyway, the recipe always fascinated me. This was the 'moonshine' recipe I guess, that the old Baldwin sisters (who lived in the community near the Waltons) had kept bountiful samples of - in their house. The recipe was always spoken of reverently, as if it was a precious heirloom. The old sisters treated it as if it was gold - and I guess it was in a way. I'm guessing that their father or someone in the family had made plenty of money running the moonshine - and this is where the sisters inherited their fortune from. Maybe I'd speak reverently of it too, although doubtful, since I grew up in a tee totaler home. And I mean Tee with a capital T (was is not always is).

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Here, you can listen to a voice of the past speaking of life and all mankind. Grace to you.

A recipe of love - family, memories. I'm transported to all that is sacred.