Frank Jennings

I was pretty bored with the series to say the least. Most of the shows were pretty unbelieveable. Their life was actually in abundance compared to those that lived through the great depression. Their table always was loaded down with food and their clothing was nice. Take a look at pictures of real families that had tó live through this era. My parents were raised up on hardscrabble east Texas small farms during this time. John boy was pampered by allowing him to idle his time away writing boring tripe while his father and grandfather sweated through the days working in the so called sawmill.notvany if the girls raised a sweat helping their mother with house work. As a designer of sawmill equipment I saw that their so called sawmill was a real piece of unbelievable junk. It wasn't even an actual sawmill ... Just a table saw. Their supposed Christian homé was such that they played with ouijai boards and opened up honky tonk beer joints. Grandpaw took the boys to a strip tease show. In actual life grandpaw was a homosexual and granny was a lesbian. So much for Christian grandparents and a God fearing home. The mother of the family was a n alcoholic and was completely absorbed by it. No you can't separate real life from the program The cheapskate producers got rid of Ralph Waite to save money. All in all the series was unbelievable. Giving it three stars out of five is very generous. Two stars is more like it ...