Together with the viewer he visits the set, where the series was recorded, and his hometown Schuyler in Virginia. He also lets us meet the Hamners family; his mother, brothers and sisters, who inspired him to develop the characters we got to love thoughout the years.

I have walked the land in the footsteps of all my fathers.
Back in time to where the first one trod.
And stopped, saw sky, felt wind, bent to touch Mother Earth and called this home.
This mountain, this pine and hemlock, oak and poplar, laurel wild and rhododendron.
Home and mountain.
Father, mother, grow to the sons and daughters to walk the old paths.
To look back in pride in honoured heritage.
To hear its laughter and its song.
To grow to stand and be themselves one day remembered.
I have walked the land in the footsteps of all my fathers.
I saw yesterday and now look to tomorrow.

Someone once asked my sister Marion where Walton’s Mountain is. And she said it’s somewhere my brother was very happy.

We’ve been happy here and I hope that in the past eight years we’ve entertained you, that we’ve enriched your lifes in some small way. And that whenever possible we’ve made some affirmative statement about us as a people. And about people as a part of all mankind.

Will Geer started the custom of joining hands during the saying of grace at meals, and in his memory…

Goodnight everybody!.