Airdate:
10/12/78
Zeb’s cousin, Boone Walton, gets arrested for moonshining
but Jason offers to pay his fine and take him in to avoid imprisonment. It
doesn’t take long for Boone to return to his old ways: attempting to set up
another still and getting himself and Jason drunk when they restore the Baldwin
sisters’ lost “recipe.” Boone just can’t change his stripes, so runs back to
the mountains, and asks Jason simply for one day’s head start before he
notifies the sheriff. Meanwhile, Daisy Garner, John-Boy’s ex-fiancée, returns
to the mountain, and is talked into staying and lodging at Mary-Ellen’s
now-vacant former abode. Everyone is pleased- except Corabeth, who is dismayed
that Aimee will be playing with an illegitimate child.
Surprisingly emotional episode focuses on a character we
haven’t seen in awhile – Boon, who represents the hillbilly side of the family
always on the outskirts of the law – and civilization. As such, the theme of
“progress” is again explored.
Visit from Daisy also reminds the modern viewer of the
stigma, now completely obliterated, mothers of children born out of wedlock had
to face up until the modern age.
It is now the autumn of 1941, according to the narration.
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