- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] It had been my father's dream that each of his children received at least a high school education, and for a good many years there was a Walton in every graduating class of the Waltons Mountain school. So it was in 1937 when it came time for my sister, Erin, to leave behind the security of high school and to face an uncertain future.