The sex secrets of “The Waltons”
<p>The supposed ‘Mary Ellen Walton’ once <a href="https://thecinemaholic.com/is-the-waltons-based-on-a-true-story/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">said</a> the world her brother had created was just “somewhere Earl was happy.”</p>
<p>To look through the decades of media coverage of the show, there’s regular suggestions it was mostly made up. A native of Schuyler <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/274479526" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">says</a> in 2002: “Everyone who lived there knew those stories were more fiction than fact.”</p>
<p>Over time, as I have lived and travelled in the South, I’ve kept an ear out for details. Jim Hamner, the youngest son and the model for ‘Jim Bob’, never married. He lived alone in the family home until his death in 2004.</p>
<p>I was told very reliably that he was gay and known in nearby Charlottesville for liking very…</p>
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