- Mamie Baldwin: [after the chandelier crashes to the floor] Oh! Oh! Sister, we could have been killed.
- Emily Baldwin: Are you sure we weren't?
- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] The post war years brought great social change and progress to our community. But for the hill folk living above us on the mountain, it was as though time had passed them by. They held on rigidly to their old ways and customs, even if it meant breaking the law.