After completing high school, John-Boy attends fictional Boatwright University in the fictional nearby town of Westham.

During the first season, John Walton Jr .— known to nearly everyone as John-Boy — is seventeen years old, and his parents have been married for eighteen years.

The family's story is narrated at the opening and closing of each episode by the middle-aged John-Boy ( Richard Thomas ), the oldest son who becomes a journalist and novelist.

Richard Earl Thomas ( born June 13, 1951 ) is an American actor, best known for his leading role as budding author John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama The Waltons.

Robert Wightman is an American actor, who took over the role of " John-Boy Walton ," in the 8th season of The Waltons.

John Isley and Billy James, known as John Boy & Billy, named after " John-Boy Harris and brother Bross Harris ", are American radio hosts based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

He became nationally recognized for his portrayal of John " John-Boy " Walton, Jr., in the 1970s TV series The Waltons, which was based on the real life of writer Earl Hamner, Jr.

* " John-Boy " Walton and John Walton Sr., characters on the US television series The Waltons

Nearly every episode opens, following the opening credits, with Hamner's voice-over ( ostensibly speaking as the present day John-Boy ), briefly reminiscing about the events about to be depicted and setting up the story.

John, John-Boy, and Olivia Walton.

Grandma and John-Boy.

* John " John-Boy " Walton, Jr. ( Richard Thomas, pilot, series seasons 1 – 5, guest season 6, three movie sequels ; Robert Wightman, seasons 8 – 9 and one movie sequel ), the oldest of seven children, aged 17 in season one.

Hamner provided the voice-over of the older John-Boy, usually heard at the beginning and end of each episode.

That same year, Little played Hawthorne Dooley in the pilot for The Waltons called " The Homecoming: A Christmas Story ," helping John-Boy Walton search for his father.

The main story takes place in Walton's Mountain, a fictional town at the foot of a mountain in fictitious Jefferson County, Virginia.

A fictional family based on the Mitford sisters features prominently in author Jo Walton's novel Ha ' penny ; Viola Lark, one of the point-of-view characters, is one of the sisters, another is married to Himmler, and a third is a Communist spy.

While appearing only as featured solo instruments in some works, for example Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, the saxophone is included in other works, such as Ravel's Boléro, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suites 1 and 2, Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6 and Symphony No. 9 and William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, and many other works as a member of the orchestral ensemble.

The eighth prolegomenon to Walton's Polyglot Bible is largely a réchauffé ( reworking ) of the " Tiberias ".

It is also home to Wintergreen Resort, a local ski area ; Swannanoa ( mansion ), a " summer home " for James H. Dooley of Richmond, VA ; and is the location of Walton's Mountain made famous by the television show, The Waltons.

The Walmart Visitor Center is located on the Bentonville town square in Sam Walton's original Walton's Five and Dime.

Built in 1888, the building now houses the Walmart Visitor Center, and is adjacent to the original Walton's Five and Dime.

Walton's Mountain Winery & Vineyard is West Point's First Winery that opened in 2006.

However, R. C. Bald points out that Walton's account " is riddled with inaccuracies.

For a few years he enjoyed a meteoric celebrity, including participating in a recording of William Walton's Façade with Edith Sitwell .< ref > Lambert's best known composition is The Rio Grande ( 1927 ) for piano and alto soloists, chorus, and orchestra of brass, strings and percussion.

Among Walton's other features, a new Junior and Infants School was built in 2007, replacing the two schools originally located on School Lane that have now been demolished, and there is also a park, Walton tennis club, rugby and football pitches, and working men's club.

William Walton's score for the 1970 film Three Sisters, based on Chekhov's play, is dominated by the theme.

* May 12 – At the coronation of King George VI of the United Kingdom, William Walton's ceremonial march, " Crown Imperial ", originally written for his predecessor, King Edward VIII, is performed for the first time.

The ground floor of the museum is set-out in period and has a series of illustrated information boards covering Walton's life, his writings and the story of the Izaak Walton Cottage.

The full title of Walton's book of short biographies is, Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, & C. His leisurely labours as a biographer seem to have grown out of his devotion to angling.

He also gave active assistance to Brian Walton's polyglot bible, and the preface to the various readings of the Arabic Pentateuch is from his hand.

He is an admirer of Sam Walton's business philosophy.

* In the video game Red Dead Redemption, there is a gang called " Walton's gang " which is loosely based on the Dalton gang.

Critics would argue this inconsistency is evidence against Walton's story.

Clark dismisses this possibility of drugging as most unlikely, given that the medical doctors found no sign of it, but he also notes that perhaps " more difficult to explain is the absence of bruises, which one might expect in the wake of Walton's alleged beam-driven collision with the ground ".

In 1929 he played the solo part in the premiere of William Walton's Viola Concerto, after Lionel Tertis, for whom it was written, turned it down.

In 1804, Walton's community was chosen as the county seat of the newly formed Smith County after a heated election, and the town of Carthage was laid out shortly thereafter.

Walton's organization disavows the label " Mormon ", but claims to be the original church established in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr. His church denies the authority of Brigham Young, who led the majority of Latter Day Saints to Utah after Smith's death, together with that of Joseph Smith III, who became the leader of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

( Clark, 632 ) Walton would later report that he never had a " keen " interest in UFOs, even after his supposed abduction, but the tape recorded statement of his brother Duane, while Walton was still missing, runs contrary to Walton's statements.

Among the other telephone calls after news of Walton's return was one from Coral Lorenzen of APRO, a civilian UFO research group.

Walton's plane crashed at 12: 20 p. m. local time ( 1820 GMT ) shortly after taking off from Jackson Hole Airport.

In December 2008, a woman named Stacy Elizabeth Beshear pleaded no contest to charges of stalking Walton ; she was arrested after she pulled up to Walton's car and pretended to fire gunshots at him with a fake gun.

Walton's plane crashed at 12: 20 p. m. local time ( 1820 GMT ) shortly after taking off from Jackson Hole Airport.

Sturrock questioned Walton's attitude and temperament after some abject performances, and rash decisions by the player.