the waltons

"Good night Daddy." Ralph Waite, who most famously played the dad on the hit TV show "The Waltons", died yesterday at his home in Palm Desert, California. He was 85 years old.

There we were, a generation of sponges soaking it all up from the magic box plugged into the wall. If this is the Internet Generation then we were the TV generation. We ate with Alice at Mel's Diner, we hung out in the projects with Florida, James and J.J. Evans,...