'The Waltons' fans have plenty to celebrate in this corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains
SCHUYLER, Va. - Deep in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, miles from any multilane highway (or any straight road for that matter), through dense forests of Virginia pine and over trickling streams, I heard a familiar voice.
"Illi-noa? Why that's a ways away from he-uh, suh."
The woman at the front desk of the tiny museum I was visiting sounded like Thursday night TV, 1973. Her soft Southern accent where "house" is "hoose" and father is "fah-tha," shaped by the Scots who settled this area, had the same soothing effect as the voice of local hero Earl Hamner Jr., creator and narrator of "The Waltons," did on American television viewers.
The homespun show about a large, Depression-era family in
