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00:01:42 #1 line from Massachusetts latitude is 42 degrees 40 minutes
00:01:47 #2 longitude is 70 degrees 37 minutes running right through the middle of the town is main
00:01:53 #3 street cutting across main street on the left is the railroad tracks beyond the railroad
00:01:58 #4 tracks is Polish down you know foreign folks who come here to work in a mills a couple
00:02:04 #5 of can up families and the Catholic Church you can see the steeple of the congregational
00:02:10 #6 church the Presbyterian is just across the street the Methodist and the Unitarian
00:02:15 #7 are up a block the Baptist Church is down in the hollow by the river next to the
00:02:22 #8 post office is the town hall jails in the basement Brian once made a speech
00:02:27 #9 right from those very steps it's a nice town you know what I mean nobody very
00:02:33 #10 wonderful ever come out of it so far as we know the earliest dates on the
00:02:37 #11 tombstones up there in the cemetery say 1670.
00:02:40 #12 There grovers and cartwrights and gibb's and fursies.
00:02:45 #13 Same names as you find around here now.
00:02:48 #14 First we'll show you a day in our town.
00:02:50 #15 Not as it is today in the year 1940,
00:02:53 #16 but as it used to be in the year 1901.
00:02:57 #17 All right operator, let's start.
00:02:59 #18 Yes, sir, that's the way our town looked back in the year 1901.
00:03:05 #19 Along Main Street is a row of stores with kitchen posts and boss blocks in front of them.
00:03:11 #20 The first automobile is going to come along in about five years.
00:03:15 #21 The date is June 7th, 1901.
00:03:19 #22 It's just before dawn.
00:03:23 #23 Yeah, just about.
00:03:25 #24 The sky is already beginning to show some streaks of light in it over there in the east, back of our mountain.
00:03:31 #25 The morning star gets wonderful bright the moment before it has to go.
00:03:36 #26 The only lights on in the town are in a cottage over in Polish town where her mother's just giving birth to twins.
00:03:41 #27 And down on the depot where Shorty Hawkins is just getting ready to flag the 545 for Boston.
00:03:46 #28 As she is now. Of course naturally out in the country all around there have been lights on for some time.
00:03:55 #29 What was milk and so on. But town folks sleep late.
00:03:59 #30 Here comes Joe Crowell delivering the morning papers.
00:04:06 #31 So another day has begun.
00:04:09 #32 Here comes Doc Gibbs from that baby case I was telling you about.
00:04:13 #33 And this is Doc Gibbs' house. His neighbor is headed to where.
00:04:17 #34 There's Mrs. Gibbs coming downstairs to get breakfast.
00:04:21 #35 Later on, about 1910, she's going on to visit her daughter Rebecca in Canton, Ohio.
00:04:28 #36 Mrs. Gibbs is going to die there, pneumonia.
00:04:32 #37 But she's going to be brought back here and she's going to be buried in the cemetery right here in our town.
00:04:38 #38 our town with a whole mess of gibbs is in person. In our town we like to know the
00:04:44 #39 facts about everybody and there's Mrs Web coming downstairs to get her breakfast to.
00:04:51 #40 This is where it was a girl before she married at the web. Yeah. Children time to get
00:04:59 #41 up. To. Get up. One minute give you like a lead today.
00:05:24 #42 Yeah, something's wrong with separators.
00:05:25 #43 Don't know what's worse. Maybe.
00:05:33 #44 Hi, Collie.
00:05:34 #45 One minute, Webb.
00:05:44 #46 Come on, Mr. Newsome.
00:05:49 #47 Might I find Dave?
00:05:50 #48 Yeah.
00:05:56 #49 How's Mr. Newsome?
00:05:57 #50 Good.
00:06:12 #51 Come on. Get out.
00:06:15 #52 Betsy, come on.
00:06:16 #53 What's the matter with you?
00:06:19 #54 Oh, they've quit taking milk.
00:06:20 #55 Now come on.
00:06:21 #56 Morning, Collie.
00:06:22 #57 Morning, Doc.
00:06:23 #58 Betsy, I came up.
00:06:25 #59 She's all mixed up about the rod
00:06:27 #60 ever since the lockhart stopped taking
00:06:28 #61 a quarter milk a day short to leave a quad just the same keep
00:06:31 #62 calling me the whole trip somebody sick twins over Mrs.
00:06:35 #63 Carlos love keys all twins out of the town keeps getting bigger every year come on
00:06:39 #64 now come on back to you morning doc morning Joe what's your paper now yeah
00:06:44 #65 anybody been sick doc no twins over in Polish town you always see a teacher
00:06:50 #66 must fast is going to get married yes sir to a fellow over in Conker where how do
00:06:54 #67 you boys feel about that well of course they know my business but I think it
00:06:58 #68 a person starts out to be a teacher you ought to stay one.
00:07:02 #69 I need Joe find out never think about it all only like you said it always
00:07:07 #70 tells me what it's going to rain what's the telling of the day on a rain no sir
00:07:10 #71 yes sir you never make a mistake no sir. I declare
00:07:21 #72 his kittens. They will be ready to go down to get your coffee.
00:07:29 #73 You can catch a couple hours of sleep this morning, can't you?
00:07:33 #74 Miss Whitworth, come level 11.
00:07:35 #75 I guess I know what about to.
00:07:37 #76 Stomachache want to be.
00:07:39 #77 I told you I won't get more than three hours of sleep.
00:07:41 #78 Frank, dear God, I know what's gonna become of you.
00:07:43 #79 We should go away some place and take a rest.
00:07:45 #80 I think it'll do you good.
00:07:58 #81 Let me tell you what, Mr. George,
00:08:00 #82 seems like something's come over him lately.
00:08:02 #83 He's not helping me at all. Can't even get him to cut me some more.
00:08:04 #84 Is he sassy, dear?
00:08:06 #85 Just one. All he thinks about is that old baseball.
00:08:08 #86 Oh, George, Rebecca, you'll be late for school.
00:08:11 #87 George!
00:08:12 #88 George, look sharp.
00:08:13 #89 Yes, Pa.
00:08:14 #90 Don't you hear your mother calling you?
00:08:16 #91 Yes, I'll go upstairs and catch 40 weeks.
00:08:18 #92 Ma!
00:08:19 #93 Ma, what dress shall I wear?
00:08:21 #94 Our waltz tonight at the Blue Kingdom for you, special.
00:08:24 #95 Oh, Ma, I hate that dress.
00:08:26 #96 Oh, I'll chuck it in.
00:08:28 #97 Every day I go to school dressed like a sick turkey.
00:08:32 #98 Come on, Rebecca, you always look very...
00:08:34 #99 Not that me.
00:08:41 #100 I'll come up and slap the both of you.
00:08:42 #101 That's what I'll do.
00:08:45 #102 Hurry up, children, children.
00:09:02 #103 Children, I won't have it.
00:09:03 #104 Breakfast just as good as any other meal
00:09:05 #105 that won't have you gobbled in like wolves.
00:09:06 #106 It'll stunt your growth, that's a fact.
00:09:08 #107 Wally, put your book away.
00:09:09 #108 Oh, Mom, by 10 o'clock I gotta know all about Canada.
00:09:13 #109 Do you know the rules?
00:09:14 #110 Well, as I do, no books at table.
00:09:16 #111 As for me, I'd rather have my children healthy than bright.
00:09:19 #112 Well, I'm both, Mama.
00:09:20 #113 You know I am.
00:09:21 #114 I'm the brightest girl in school for my age.
00:09:24 #115 I have a wonderful memory.
00:09:25 #116 Eat your breakfast.
00:09:28 #117 Well, I'll speak to you all about it when he's rested.
00:09:30 #118 He's to me like 25 cents a week's enough for a boy in your age.
00:09:33 #119 I get glad and I spend it all.
00:09:35 #120 Oh, Ma, I got a lot of things to buy.
00:09:37 #121 Brawberry fresh, that's what you spend it all.
00:09:40 #122 Why don't you tell Rebecca come down so much money?
00:09:42 #123 She's got more than a dollar.
00:09:43 #124 I've been saving enough gradual,
00:09:45 #125 well dear, I think it's a good thing to spend some now and then.
00:09:48 #126 Ma, you know what I like most in the world? Do you?
00:09:52 #127 Money.
00:09:53 #128 Eat your breakfast. That's right.
00:10:24 #129 Rebecca, pick up your feet.
00:10:42 #130 Where did you come from?
00:10:43 #131 You don't belong to me.
00:10:45 #132 But you're scared of nobody's gonna hurt you.
00:10:47 #133 Morning, Julian.
00:10:49 #134 Morning, my little oldie. Cool.
00:10:50 #135 Oh, still got that tickling feeling in my throat.
00:10:52 #136 Tell Charles I didn't know if I'd go to choir or record tonight.
00:10:54 #137 Have a try singing over your boy.
00:10:56 #138 Yes, somehow I can't do that.
00:10:57 #139 Stay on key.
00:10:59 #140 These have been good this year. Let me help you. Mm-hmm.
00:11:01 #141 I thought it was a boy for it killed me.
00:11:04 #142 Children say they hit him and I know they married to get him down on
00:11:07 #143 a winter.
00:11:09 #144 I got to tell you something if I don't tell somebody I'll burst.
00:11:12 #145 I do give one of those second hand furniture men from Boston came to see me
00:11:16 #146 last Friday.
00:11:17 #147 First I thought it was a patient waiting to see Dr. Gibbs but it wound his way
00:11:20 #148 right into my power.
00:11:22 #149 He offered me three hundred and fifty dollars for grandmother Hershey's
00:11:25 #150 high boys I'm sitting here.
00:11:26 #151 Well you're going to take it out.
00:11:27 #152 You don't know three hundred and fifty dollars.
00:11:31 #153 Well, what's come over you?
00:11:32 #154 Well, if I could get the doctor to take the money
00:11:34 #155 and go away someplace on the trip, I'd sell it like this.
00:11:38 #156 You know, it's always been the dream of my life
00:11:40 #157 to see Perris Rand.
00:11:44 #158 For years, I've been promising myself
00:11:46 #159 if we ever had the chance.
00:11:47 #160 How's Dr. feel about it?
00:11:48 #161 Well, I did speak about the brush a little.
00:11:51 #162 Said if I ever got the legacy, that's the way I put it.
00:11:54 #163 I'd make him take me.
00:11:55 #164 But you say?
00:11:57 #165 You know how he is.
00:11:58 #166 Haven't heard a serious word of him since I'm noony.
00:12:00 #167 No, he says.
00:12:02 #168 make him just contented with Grover's cornestical traits and over your nose.
00:12:06 #169 Well, not well enough alone he's here.
00:12:08 #170 Well, if that secondhand man's real serious about buying it, you sell it to me.
00:12:11 #171 Then you'll get to see Paris.
00:12:14 #172 Just drop hints from time to time.
00:12:16 #173 That's how I got Mr. Webb to take me to see the Atlantic Ocean, you know?
00:12:18 #174 I'm sorry I mentioned it.
00:12:20 #175 But it seems to me once you're lucky for you to die,
00:12:23 #176 you ought to see a country where they don't speak in English and don't even water.
00:12:27 #177 That'll do, ladies. Thanks very much.
00:12:29 #178 Now we'll skip a few hours.
00:12:31 #179 Now before we get on I think we ought to have a little more information about the town.
00:12:43 #180 The kind of a scientific account you might say.
00:12:47 #181 So I've invited Professor Willard of our State University to come here and kind of sketch in a few details of our past history.
00:12:54 #182 There's no.
00:13:02 #183 Am I late?
00:13:03 #184 Right on time.
00:13:05 #185 May I introduce Professor Willard of our State University.
00:13:09 #186 Now just a few brief words Professor unfortunately our time is limited.
00:13:13 #187 Yes, sir. Let me see.
00:13:16 #188 Grover's Corners.
00:13:18 #189 Grover's Corners lies on the old Pleistine granite of the Appalachian range.
00:13:23 #190 I might say that's some of the oldest land in the world. We're very proud of that around here.
00:13:28 #191 Some highly interesting fossils have been found.
00:13:32 #192 I might say unique fossils. Two miles north of town in the Silas Peckham's cow pasture.
00:13:38 #193 These may be seen in the Museum of the University at any time.
00:13:41 #194 time well that is at any reasonable time. Shall I tell them about the meteorological
00:13:47 #195 conditions mean precipitation etc. I'm afraid we won't have time for that professor we might
00:13:52 #196 have a few words about the history of man here though. Anthropological data. Early Amerindian
00:14:01 #197 stock Kota Hatchee tribes no evidence is before the tenth century of this era now entirely
00:14:07 #198 disappeared possible traces in three families migration in the early 17th
00:14:13 #199 century of English Bracket's ethyl blue eyed stuff and since then some slough and
00:14:19 #200 Mediterranean and the the population professor within the town limits two
00:14:24 #201 thousand six hundred and forty the book oh that's so in that case the
00:14:32 #202 population at the moment is two thousand six hundred and forty two the
00:14:36 #203 the poster district spring in five hundred and seven more making a total of three
00:14:40 #204 thousand one hundred and forty nine mortality birth rates constant by McPherson's
00:14:46 #205 gauge six point not three two thank you very much professor I'm sure we're all
00:14:51 #206 very much obliged to you know the talks and that it's all the day and now the
00:14:59 #207 social and political report when it away mr. Webb charlie webs the father of
00:15:08 #208 Wally and Emily. Emily's the smart girl with a good memory. You know, you saw our breakfast.
00:15:15 #209 All right, I did the web, but you're up there now.
00:15:17 #210 Well, I don't have to tell you that we're run here by a board of select men.
00:15:22 #211 All males vote at the age of 21. Women vote in direct.
00:15:26 #212 Politically, we're 86% Republican, 12% Democrat, 4% Socialist.
00:15:31 #213 Rest indifferent.
00:15:33 #214 Religiously, we're 85% Protestants, 12% Catholics.
00:15:38 #215 Rest indifferent.
00:15:39 #216 Very ordinary town, if you ask me, but our young people here seem to like it well enough.
00:15:45 #217 Lots of them settle down right here to live, even after they've been away to college.
00:15:50 #218 Now, is there anybody in the audience who'd like to ask Ed at the web any questions about our town?
00:15:56 #219 Well, ma'am, I wouldn't know what you'd call much.
00:16:04 #220 call much Saturday nights the farm hands meet down at every no stable and holler
00:16:09 #221 some we got one or two town drunks but they're always having remorse is every
00:16:15 #222 time in evangelist comes down no I'd say that liquor wasn't a regular thing in
00:16:20 #223 the home here except in the medicine chest right good for snake bites you know
00:16:24 #224 always was. Yes. The web is there any culture or love of beauty in
00:16:35 #225 in the corner. Well no ma'am not much that is in the same to me.
00:16:42 #226 There's some girls that play the piano with the high school commencement but they
00:16:46 #227 ain't happy about it. No there ain't much culture Robinson
00:16:51 #228 Crusoe and the Bible and handles Lago we all know that and whistler's mother.
00:16:57 #229 That's about as far as we go. Thank you very much Mr. Web.
00:17:00 #230 Is there no one in town aware?
00:17:02 #231 No, I'm sorry, but we haven't time for any more questions.
00:17:05 #232 We must be getting on with the picture.
00:17:07 #233 It's getting on in the afternoon.
00:17:09 #234 All 2,642 up have the dinners.
00:17:12 #235 All the dishes have been washed.
00:17:14 #236 There's an early afternoon calm about the town.
00:17:18 #237 Charlie Webb's going home to mow his lawn.
00:17:21 #238 A long man in ten thinks it's a privilege to push his own lawnmower.
00:17:25 #239 The afternoon session of school is over.
00:17:28 #240 School is over.
00:17:31 #241 Doc Gibbs is in his office tapping people and making them walk simply.
00:17:47 #242 Who do you think you are today.
00:17:54 #243 One minute you tell me to stand up straight in the next minute you call me name.
00:17:59 #244 I just don't listen to you.
00:18:02 #245 Golly never got a kid from such a great lady before.
00:18:05 #246 Hello, Emily.
00:18:10 #247 Oh, hello.
00:18:12 #248 You made a fine speech in class today.
00:18:17 #249 Well, I was really ready to make a speech on the Monroe Doctrine,
00:18:21 #250 but the last minute Miss Foster made me talk about the Louisiana Purchase instead.
00:18:27 #251 I worked an awful long time on both of them.
00:18:30 #252 Gee, it's funny, Emily.
00:18:32 #253 From my window up there, I see your head knights
00:18:35 #254 a head night doing your homework over in your room.
00:18:40 #255 Why can't you. You certainly do stick to it in. I don't see how you can sit still
00:18:47 #256 at long. Guess you must like school. Well. I feel it just something you have to go
00:18:55 #257 through what do you think and we. We might work out a kind of telegraph from
00:19:01 #258 your window to mine and give me a hit every once in a while and all those
00:19:05 #259 a problem. Well I don't mean the answer to them of course not I mean.
00:19:11 #260 Just some little hint. I think him so loud. You get stuck George just.
00:19:20 #261 Whistle to me and I'll give you some hints. Gosh. You're just naturally
00:19:28 #262 bright I guess. Well I figure it's just the way a person born.
00:19:35 #263 Yeah but you see. I want to be a farmer and my uncle Luke says
00:19:43 #264 whenever I'm ready we come over and work on this farm and if I'm
00:19:47 #265 any good at all I can just gradually have it. You mean the house and
00:19:52 #266 everything I am. I guess I better be getting off the baseball field.
00:20:03 #267 Thanks for the talk. And I. Have whom as well as. Long and. Long
00:20:10 #268 George. You can come in here with it. Well George gives that
00:21:10 #269 himself have a real conversation didn't they. It's going up.
00:21:15 #270 How would George be. I don't know that he must be around 17
00:21:22 #271 mama made a speech in class today I was very good you must recite it to your
00:21:27 #272 a father at supper. What was it about Louisiana purchase.
00:21:32 #273 Was like silk office. I'm going to make speeches all my life
00:21:37 #274 holding it too tight Emily.
00:21:42 #275 Mama. Will you answer me a question
00:21:46 #276 serious seriously dear not serious seriously will you.
00:21:51 #277 Of course I will.
00:21:53 #278 Mama, am I good looking?
00:21:57 #279 Of course you are.
00:21:59 #280 Both my children have got good features.
00:22:01 #281 Be ashamed that they haven't.
00:22:03 #282 Oh, Mama, that's not what I mean.
00:22:05 #283 What I mean is, am I pretty?
00:22:09 #284 I've already told you yes.
00:22:11 #285 Well, that's enough of that.
00:22:13 #286 You got a nice, young, pretty face.
00:22:15 #287 Never heard such foolishness.
00:22:17 #288 Oh, Mama, you never tell us the truth about anything.
00:22:20 #289 I am telling you the truth.
00:22:23 #290 Mama, were you pretty?
00:22:26 #291 Yes, I was, if it do say it.
00:22:28 #292 I was the prettiest girl in town next to Mamie Cartwright.
00:22:31 #293 Mama, you've got to say something about me.
00:22:36 #294 Am I pretty enough to get anybody?
00:22:39 #295 Well, to get people interested in me.
00:22:42 #296 Emily, you make me tired. Now stop it.
00:22:45 #297 You're pretty enough for all normal purposes.
00:22:47 #298 It's evening. You can hear the choir practicing on the congregation church.
00:22:57 #299 The children are all home doing the schoolwork.
00:23:01 #300 The day is running down like a tired clock.
00:23:07 #301 Tink no mirror. Now do it again.
00:24:26 #302 Now remember ladies, music coming of the world to give pleasure.
00:24:34 #303 I'll try it again.
00:24:39 #304 Now listen everybody, get a lot of your minds that music's only good when it's loud.
00:25:06 #305 when it's loud you leave loudness to the methodists.
00:25:12 #306 They couldn't beat them even if you wanted to.
00:25:18 #307 Once again now, art thou weary, art thou languid.
00:25:25 #308 It's a question ladies and gentlemen, make it talk.
00:25:32 #309 Oh and remember on Sunday take the second verse real soft sort of die out at the end.
00:25:44 #310 Ready?
00:25:48 #311 Emily.
00:26:05 #312 Can't work at all.
00:26:15 #313 The moonlight's so terrible.
00:26:17 #314 Emily, did you get the third problem?
00:26:25 #315 Which?
00:26:27 #316 The third.
00:26:28 #317 Well yes George.
00:26:33 #318 That's the easiest of them all.
00:26:35 #319 Oh I don't see it.
00:26:41 #320 Well Emily could you give me a hint.
00:26:49 #321 I'll tell you one thing the answer is in yards.
00:26:56 #322 In yards. What do you mean.
00:27:00 #323 Square yards. Oh square yards.
00:27:05 #324 Well yes George don't you see.
00:27:09 #325 Yeah where yards of wallpaper.
00:27:14 #326 Oh, I see. Square yards of wallpaper.
00:27:20 #327 Thanks a lot, Emily.
00:27:22 #328 You're welcome.
00:27:27 #329 My... isn't the moonlight terrible?
00:27:31 #330 I think if you hold your breath, you can hear the train all the way to Kentucky.
00:27:44 #331 Here?
00:27:52 #332 Oh, what do you know?
00:27:54 #333 I guess I'd better get back now and try to work.
00:28:04 #334 Good night, Emily.
00:28:05 #335 Good night, George.
00:28:08 #336 Oh, George?
00:28:13 #337 And you can down a minute?
00:28:15 #338 Yes, Pa.
00:28:16 #339 Make yourself comfortable, George.
00:28:24 #340 I'll only keep you a minute.
00:28:29 #341 George, how old are you?
00:28:32 #342 Me?
00:28:34 #343 Oh, I'm past 17.
00:28:37 #344 What do you want to do after school's over?
00:28:40 #345 You know, Pa, I want to be a farmer on Uncle Luke's farm.
00:28:45 #346 Mm-hmm.
00:28:46 #347 And you'll be willing with you to get up early and milk
00:28:49 #348 and feed the stuff.
00:28:51 #349 and you'll be able to ho and hay all day.
00:28:54 #350 Hmm.
00:28:55 #351 Sure I will.
00:28:56 #352 What do you mean, Pa?
00:28:58 #353 Well, George, when I was here in the office today,
00:29:04 #354 I heard a funny sound.
00:29:07 #355 What do you think it was?
00:29:09 #356 It was your mother chopping wood.
00:29:14 #357 There you see your mother, getting up early, cooking meals all day,
00:29:19 #358 washing and ironing, and yet she has to go out in the backyard and chop wood.
00:29:26 #359 I suppose she got tired asking you.
00:29:29 #360 I suppose she just gave up and decided it was easier to do it herself.
00:29:33 #361 The clothes she keeps nice for you.
00:29:42 #362 Then you run out and play baseball.
00:29:48 #363 Hired girl, we kept around the house but didn't like very much.
00:29:56 #364 I knew all I had to do was call it to your attention.
00:29:59 #365 There's a handkerchief, son.
00:30:12 #366 Happened to your mother.
00:30:13 #367 Fire practice never was as late as this before.
00:30:19 #368 Only had that eight paw.
00:30:27 #369 She hadn't got any more boys than an old crow.
00:30:29 #370 around the street this hour of the night.
00:30:35 #371 About time you retired.
00:30:42 #372 Don't you think, George?
00:31:11 #373 Real nice quiet breakfast, won't you?
00:31:14 #374 Mirtle Webb, look at that moon.
00:31:16 #375 Potato weather, sure.
00:31:19 #376 Well, naturally, I didn't want to say a word about it
00:31:21 #377 in front of those others.
00:31:23 #378 But now we're alone.
00:31:25 #379 Really, it's the worst scandal that ever was in this town. Why?
00:31:28 #380 Why, Simon, don't say no, Lola.
00:31:31 #381 But, Julia, to have the organist of a church drink.
00:31:35 #382 Who drunk here after year? No, well...
00:31:37 #383 Julia, you know he was drunk tonight.
00:31:39 #384 Now, Llewella, we all know about Mr. Stinson,
00:31:42 #385 and we all know about the property he threw,
00:31:44 #386 and Dr. Ferguson knows too.
00:31:46 #387 And if Dr. Ferguson was willing to keep him on his job there,
00:31:48 #388 the only thing the rest of us can do is just not to notice it.
00:31:51 #389 Not to notice it, but it's getting worse.
00:31:54 #390 No, it ain't Llewella, it's getting better.
00:31:56 #391 I've been in that choir twice as long as you have,
00:31:58 #392 and it doesn't happen anywhere near so often.
00:32:03 #393 I hate to go to bed on a night like this.
00:32:06 #394 Well, good night, Llewellah. Good night. Good night, Julia.
00:32:09 #395 Night, Merkel.
00:32:11 #396 You can get home all right, Llewellah.
00:32:13 #397 Oh, a Friday's day.
00:32:15 #398 I can see Mr. Soames, Dowling, the window now.
00:32:22 #399 Soay the men folk carry on.
00:32:25 #400 Good night, Julia.
00:32:26 #401 Good night, Llewellah.
00:32:27 #402 Say your own son will see you then.
00:32:29 #403 We had a real good time.
00:32:37 #404 You're late enough.
00:32:38 #405 Franching any later than usual?
00:32:45 #406 You stopping the gossip with a lot of hands.
00:32:47 #407 I don't think you're out. I read as usual. Well what does it go about tonight.
00:33:09 #408 I guess I know Simon as well as anybody in this town. Some people just
00:33:22 #409 a mate for small town life. I don't know how that'll end. But there's nothing we can do
00:33:28 #410 but leave it alone. Get in. Frank I'm worried about. Well I think it's my duty to plan for
00:33:39 #411 you to get a real rest and change and if I get that legacy I'm going to insist upon
00:33:44 #412 it. No no Julie. There's no sense in going all over that again come on it's getting
00:33:50 #413 late. The thing you know you'll catch a cold. I gave
00:33:55 #414 George a piece of my mind tonight. We'll get you with
00:33:58 #415 a little while anyway. That's a fair job. I'll
00:34:02 #416 look at some very nice all the people on that part of
00:34:05 #417 town do all getting to city five. The trouble with
00:34:09 #418 them. Haven't got a thing that the burger and
00:34:13 #419 everybody knows it. That you might. Know it's me Papa.
00:34:37 #420 Why aren't you in bed?
00:34:39 #421 I don't know.
00:34:42 #422 Just can't sleep yet, Papa.
00:34:44 #423 Moonlight's so wonderful.
00:34:50 #424 She's giving him the trouble.
00:35:04 #425 Having any troubles on your mind, have you, Emily?
00:35:06 #426 Trouble? No.
00:35:08 #427 Well, don't let your mother catch you. Good night, Emily.
00:35:12 #428 I never told you about that letter.
00:35:23 #429 Jane Cufford got from her minister and she was sick.
00:35:26 #430 He wrote Jane a letter and on the envelope the address was like this.
00:35:31 #431 He said, Jane Crofoot, the Crofoot farm, Grover's Corner,
00:35:37 #432 Sutton County, New Hampshire, the United States of America.
00:35:43 #433 That's funny about that.
00:35:44 #434 But listen, it's not silly.
00:35:46 #435 The United States of America, Continental North America,
00:35:51 #436 The earth, the solar system, the universe, the mind of God.
00:35:58 #437 That's what it said on the envelope.
00:36:00 #438 Hmm, money and um.
00:36:02 #439 Yet, and the postman brought it just the same.
00:36:05 #440 Three years have gone by.
00:36:07 #441 The sun's come up over a thousand times.
00:36:39 #442 Summers and winters have cracked the mountains a little bit more
00:36:41 #443 and the rain's brought down some of the dirt.
00:36:43 #444 Some babies who weren't even born before
00:36:45 #445 have begun talking regular sentences already.
00:36:47 #446 who weren't even born before had begun talking regular sentences already and some folks who
00:36:52 #447 thought they were right young and spry have discovered they can't bound up a flight of
00:36:55 #448 stairs the way they used to without their hearts fluttering a little. All that can happen in
00:37:00 #449 a thousand days. Nature's been pushing and contriving in other ways too. A number of young people
00:37:05 #450 fell in love and got married. Most everybody in the world gets married. In this town
00:37:11 #451 there aren't hardly any exceptions. Most everybody climbs into the grave married.
00:37:16 #452 What you've seen was called the daily life. Let's call what you're going to see
00:37:22 #453 love and marriage. So it's three years later. 1904. It's July 7th just after the
00:37:29 #454 high school commencement. That's the time most young people jump up and get
00:37:33 #455 married. Soon as they pass their final examinations in solid geometry and
00:37:37 #456 Cicero's orations. That's the time most young people think themselves
00:37:42 #457 for the to get married. It's only one again only this time it's been rain it's been
00:37:48 #458 London and for it. I don't know. May start in again any moment.
00:37:55 #459 The five forty five for Boston. There's side
00:38:01 #460 trouble delivering the papers like his brother before him. And there's Mrs.
00:38:05 #461 Gibbs. And Mrs. Web coming downstairs to get breakfast just as all this
00:38:11 #462 were a lot of money. I don't have to point out to the women in the audience that both
00:38:16 #463 these ladies they see before them both these ladies have been cooking three meals a day
00:38:20 #464 one of them for twenty one years and the other for twenty five and never took a summer vacation
00:38:26 #465 raised two children a piece wash clean the house and never had a nervous breakdown
00:38:33 #466 and here comes how I knew some investment delivering the milk one time.
00:38:43 #467 And I think the paper I want to know.
00:38:44 #468 Nothing much.
00:38:45 #469 Except for losing about the best baseball pitch
00:38:47 #470 you go over his corners ever had.
00:38:49 #471 George Gibbs, huh?
00:38:50 #472 I don't see I'd give up a thing like that just to get married.
00:38:54 #473 Would you have Holly?
00:38:55 #474 Can't say.
00:38:56 #475 There ain't no talent that way.
00:38:58 #476 But in 95, we had a player side that even George Gibbs
00:39:01 #477 couldn't have touched.
00:39:02 #478 Name a Hank Todd.
00:39:03 #479 But he went down to Maine and become a Carson.
00:39:06 #480 Wonderful ball player. All right.
00:39:09 #481 Howie?
00:39:10 #482 Morning, Miss Gibbs.
00:39:21 #483 Morning, Holly.
00:39:22 #484 It's too bad it's too wet, but I guess it's cleared up for good.
00:39:25 #485 Certainly hope it is.
00:39:26 #486 Gonna have a hot full of relations today, Holly.
00:39:28 #487 Looks like I'll need three a milk and two a cream.
00:39:30 #488 Three a milk and two a cream.
00:39:32 #489 My wife said to tell you we hope to be happy. Know the will. Thanks a lot, Holly.
00:39:35 #490 Tell you why I hope she gets the wet.
00:39:37 #491 Maybe she can. She'll get their skin.
00:39:41 #492 Morning, Miss Weth.
00:39:42 #493 Morning, Mr. Newsom.
00:39:43 #494 Told you four quarts, but I hope you can spare me another.
00:39:46 #495 Yes, ma'am. I both you find a cream, too.
00:39:48 #496 Miss Newsom told me special to tell you as well.
00:39:50 #497 We hope to be very happy.
00:39:52 #498 Know the will.
00:39:53 #499 Thank you, Mr. Newsom and thank you, Mrs. Newsom.
00:39:55 #500 The town's not seeing it, the church.
00:39:57 #501 Yes, sir, we hope you get there all right.
00:39:58 #502 Wouldn't this add?
00:39:59 #503 Come on, days come.
00:40:06 #504 We're losing one of your chicks.
00:40:08 #505 Thank you, but don't you say another word.
00:40:09 #506 If you like crying any minute, go on,
00:40:11 #507 and pick your coffee.
00:40:12 #508 Coons upstairs shaving himself.
00:40:14 #509 Only they're very much to shave.
00:40:16 #510 He's whistling and saying like he was glad to leave us.
00:40:19 #511 Every now and then saying I do to the mirror.
00:40:23 #512 Why don't they don't sound convincing to me?
00:40:25 #513 I declare Frank, I don't know how he's gonna get along.
00:40:28 #514 I've always arranged this clothes for him.
00:40:30 #515 Seeing the wet to this feet would run,
00:40:31 #516 he had worn things on.
00:40:32 #517 They're too young for him.
00:40:34 #518 Emily, he'll never think of those things.
00:40:35 #519 You'll catch his death a cold within a week.
00:40:37 #520 I remember my wedding morning, Julie.
00:40:38 #521 Don't stop that, Frank.
00:40:39 #522 I was the scariest young fellow in the state of New Hampshire.
00:40:43 #523 Thought I'd made a mistake for sure.
00:40:45 #524 And when I saw you coming down the aisle,
00:40:47 #525 I thought you were the prettiest girl I'd ever seen.
00:40:50 #526 The whole trouble was I'd never seen you before.
00:40:53 #527 There I was, right in the congregational church, being married to a total stranger.
00:40:57 #528 Well, how do you think I know?
00:40:58 #529 I can't even say, weddings are perfectly horrible things.
00:41:01 #530 Farther, that's what they are.
00:41:05 #531 Made something for you.
00:41:06 #532 Why, Julie Hersey.
00:41:09 #533 French toast.
00:41:11 #534 It ain't hard to make.
00:41:13 #535 I had to do something.
00:41:16 #536 I just leave last night, Julie.
00:41:17 #537 You've heard a lot of hours, Draco.
00:41:22 #538 I get a shock every time I think of George setting out of the family man.
00:41:26 #539 That's great gangrene thing.
00:41:29 #540 I tell you, Julie, there's nothing in the world
00:41:31 #541 so terrifying as a son.
00:41:32 #542 The relation between a father and a son
00:41:34 #543 is the dangest awkwardness.
00:41:36 #544 Mother and daughter, there's no picnic I can tell you.
00:41:50 #545 You'll have a lot of trouble, I suppose,
00:41:52 #546 but that's none of our business.
00:41:53 #547 Everybody's got a right to their own trouble.
00:41:59 #548 You know one thing that steered me when I married you?
00:42:02 #549 Go along with you.
00:42:04 #550 I was afraid we didn't have material for conversation
00:42:07 #551 more than it last a few weeks.
00:42:09 #552 I'm afraid we'd rather have Matthew eat our meals in silence.
00:42:16 #553 Well, you and I have been conversing for 20 years without any noticeable barren spells.
00:42:24 #554 Good weather, bad weather, tastes very choice, but I always find something to say.
00:42:29 #555 Did you hear Rebecca staring around up there?
00:42:32 #556 No. This is the only day in the year when she isn't managing everyone's affairs up there.
00:42:37 #557 up there hiding in a room and I haven't I did she's crazy. Dr.
00:42:42 #558 Stop Rebecca. Good morning everybody only for our.
00:43:01 #559 I'm just stepping across the grass to my girl not George put your other dogs been
00:43:05 #560 waiting on you don't step out of this house and I should prepare for it.
00:43:09 #561 Just a step.
00:43:14 #562 Do you want to tell. Tomorrow when you're in my house you'll live
00:43:24 #563 Wisely thank you. Maybe it was the only use to call a 7 o'clock in the morning.
00:43:29 #564 You have a cup of coffee.
00:43:31 #565 Back in the middle. Good morning.
00:43:36 #566 Finish your frightening. George to hate to say it but you understand it can ask
00:43:39 #567 in. You know as well as I do a groom can see his bride on his wedding day not
00:43:44 #568 a Cesar in church first that's just a superstition.
00:43:48 #569 Good morning. One of your you know if I'm not superstition to you a lot of
00:43:52 #570 common sense and superstition George.
00:43:54 #571 millions of dollars and don't you be the first to fly in the face of custom
00:43:58 #572 how can we have a wake up yet haven't heard a sound out of it and we just sleep
00:44:05 #573 oh no wonder we were up to all our so on and packing tell you what I'll do
00:44:09 #574 George you sit down here with the weatherman and drink back up the coffee
00:44:12 #575 now run up and see that she doesn't come down and surprise you that's some
00:44:16 #576 bacon there I'll be too long about it well George are you fine fine
00:44:55 #577 Mr. Webb, what common sense could there be in a super station like that?
00:45:02 #578 Well, George, on the wedding morning, the girl's head is full of the...
00:45:06 #579 Oh, you know, clothes and one thing and another.
00:45:08 #580 Don't you think that's probably it?
00:45:10 #581 Well, I...
00:45:13 #582 Yes, sir.
00:45:15 #583 I guess I never thought of that before.
00:45:17 #584 The girls have to be a...might nervous on her wedding day.
00:45:20 #585 Gee, I wish a person could get married without all that...
00:45:24 #586 it marching up and down every man that's ever lived is felt that way George it
00:45:31 #587 hasn't been any use it's a woman folks who built up weddings my boy man looks
00:45:38 #588 mighty small to win George all those good women standing shoulder to shoulder
00:45:42 #589 making sure that the knots tied in a mighty public way would you believe
00:45:50 #590 in it don't you miss a word yes oh yes now don't misunderstand me George
00:45:55 #591 Marriage is a wonderful thing.
00:45:57 #592 A wonderful thing.
00:45:59 #593 Don't you forget that, George.
00:46:00 #594 No, sir.
00:46:08 #595 Mr. Webb, uh...
00:46:10 #596 How old were you when you got married?
00:46:13 #597 Well, you see, I had been to college, and I'd taken a little time to get settled.
00:46:17 #598 But Mrs. Webb wasn't much older than what Emery is.
00:46:21 #599 Oh, age has much to do with it, my boy.
00:46:25 #600 That is compared with, uh, other things.
00:46:28 #601 What were you going to say, Mr. Wendt?
00:46:30 #602 No, I don't know. Was I going to say something?
00:46:35 #603 I was remembering the other night the advice my father gave to me when I got married.
00:46:44 #604 Yes, he said. Charles, he said.
00:46:47 #605 Start right off by showing her who's boss.
00:46:51 #606 Best thing to do is to give an order about something, even if it don't make sense.
00:46:57 #607 Just so she'll learn to obey, he said.
00:47:02 #608 Then he said, if anything about her irritates you,
00:47:05 #609 conversation or anything, get right up and leave the house.
00:47:08 #610 That'll make it clear to her.
00:47:10 #611 And oh, yes, he said,
00:47:12 #612 never tell your wife how much money you have.
00:47:15 #613 Never.
00:47:17 #614 Well, I couldn't exactly do that.
00:47:19 #615 So I took the opposite of his advice, and I've been happy ever since.
00:47:22 #616 Well, let that be a lesson to you, my boy.
00:47:27 #617 Never ask advice of anybody on personal matters.
00:47:31 #618 George, Emily's got to come down and eat a breakfast.
00:47:33 #619 a need of breakfast. She said you love that you don't want my eyes on you goodbye.
00:47:40 #620 Goodbye. I guess you didn't know about that older superstition. What do you mean
00:47:48 #621 child since the caveman no bridegroom she's following on the day of the wedding
00:47:52 #622 on air remember that now before we get on with the way I think we should see
00:48:03 #623 how it all began this plan to spend a lifetime together. I'm
00:48:07 #624 awfully interested in how such big things begin. You know you're twenty one
00:48:13 #625 of twenty two and then. You're seven. You've been a lawyer for fifty years. And the
00:48:19 #626 white haired lady beside you has eaten fifty thousand meals with you. How does such
00:48:24 #627 things begin. Now George and Emily are going to show you the conversation they
00:48:27 #628 had when they first knew as the saying goes they were meant for one another. Now
00:48:32 #629 it all happened last year on the way home from school. George had just been
00:48:35 #630 elected president of the senior class and Emily had just been elected
00:48:39 #631 Secretary and President. You know what that is.
00:48:44 #632 Can I carry your book for you?
00:48:48 #633 Thank you. It isn't far.
00:48:52 #634 Bob, if I'm late, start practicing. Give her some more in my way.
00:49:00 #635 I'm glad you were elected too.
00:49:02 #636 Thank you.
00:49:06 #637 Emily, why are you mad at me?
00:49:08 #638 Not mad at you.
00:49:13 #639 You've been treating me so funny lately.
00:49:14 #640 Well, since you asked me, I might as well say it right out, George.
00:49:19 #641 Goodbye, Miss Cochran.
00:49:20 #642 Emily?
00:49:21 #643 Bye, Miss Cochran.
00:49:22 #644 George?
00:49:24 #645 What is it?
00:49:25 #646 I don't like the whole change that's come over you this last year.
00:49:33 #647 I'm sorry if that hurt your feelings.
00:49:39 #648 I just got to tell the truth and shame the devil.
00:49:42 #649 What do you mean?
00:49:43 #650 Well, up to a year ago I used to like you a lot.
00:49:51 #651 I used to watch you.
00:49:52 #652 I used to watch you while you did everything.
00:49:55 #653 Because you'd been friends for so long.
00:49:58 #654 Then you started spending all your time at baseball,
00:50:03 #655 and you never stopped to speak to anybody anymore.
00:50:06 #656 Not to really speak.
00:50:08 #657 Not even to your own family, you didn't.
00:50:11 #658 And George is a fat.
00:50:14 #659 Since you've been captain, you got all...
00:50:17 #660 stuck up and conceited.
00:50:20 #661 And all the girls say so.
00:50:23 #662 It hurts me to hear him say it, but I have to agree with him a little because it's true.
00:50:29 #663 Oh, gosh, Emily. I never thought that such a thing was happening to me.
00:50:37 #664 I guess it's hard for a fellow not to have some false creep into his character.
00:50:43 #665 I always expect a man to be perfect, and I think he should be.
00:50:48 #666 Why? I don't think it's possible to be perfect, Emily.
00:50:54 #667 a perfect family. Well my father is. And as far as I can see your father is.
00:51:02 #668 There's no reason on earth why you shouldn't be too. I feel that it's just
00:51:07 #669 the other way around that. Men aren't actually good but.
00:51:12 #670 Girls are. Well you might as well know right now that I'm not perfect.
00:51:19 #671 It isn't as easy for a girl to be perfect as a man because.
00:51:23 #672 Well, we girls are more nervous.
00:51:31 #673 I said that about you.
00:51:37 #674 I don't know what made me say it.
00:51:40 #675 Emily.
00:51:41 #676 Now I can see it isn't the truth at all.
00:51:43 #677 Suddenly I feel it isn't important anyway.
00:51:48 #678 Would you like a ice cream soda or something before you go home?
00:52:01 #679 Thank you I would.
00:52:07 #680 Hello George. Hello Emily.
00:52:13 #681 Hello smarty.
00:52:14 #682 What can I do for you?
00:52:16 #683 Why Emily, what you been crying about?
00:52:19 #684 She got an awful scare, Mr. Morgan, that hardware store wagon almost ran over her.
00:52:25 #685 Everybody says that Tom Huckins drives like a crazy man.
00:52:28 #686 Well, here, let me give you a glass of water.
00:52:31 #687 Gracious, you look all shook up.
00:52:34 #688 I tell you, you've got to look both ways before you cross Main Street these days.
00:52:38 #689 It's getting worse every year.
00:52:40 #690 What do you have?
00:52:42 #691 I'll have a strawberry sauce fake, Mr. Morgan.
00:52:47 #692 I don't know, Emily. I had a soda with me.
00:52:49 #693 Well, I...
00:52:50 #694 Two strawberry ice cream sodas, Mr. Morgan.
00:52:52 #695 Two strawberry ice cream sodas, yes.
00:52:57 #696 Yes, I want to tell you something.
00:52:59 #697 There are 275 horses and drove with corvus this early moment of talking to you.
00:53:03 #698 State Inspector was in here yesterday.
00:53:05 #699 Now with all these automobiles coming along,
00:53:07 #700 it looks to me like the only safe place to stay was to home.
00:53:10 #701 Gracious, I can remember the time when a dog had left
00:53:13 #702 under the main street all day long.
00:53:15 #703 All day long, not only coming along to disturb him.
00:53:21 #704 Howdy, Mrs. Ellis, what can I do for you?
00:53:23 #705 Got a prescription.
00:53:24 #706 Yes, well, let's see.
00:53:26 #707 Shouldn't take long to fill that.
00:53:28 #708 You just sit down here, be with you in just a minute.
00:53:30 #709 You're so expensive.
00:53:32 #710 No, Emily, don't you think about that.
00:53:34 #711 We're celebrating our election.
00:53:37 #712 Emily, I want to ask you a favor.
00:53:42 #713 What?
00:53:45 #714 If I go away to State Agricultural College next year,
00:53:48 #715 Would you write me a letter once in a while?
00:53:52 #716 I certainly will.
00:53:55 #717 I certainly will, George.
00:54:00 #718 Seems like being away three years, you'd get out of touch with things.
00:54:09 #719 Maybe letters from Grovis Corners won't seem so interesting after a while.
00:54:16 #720 Grovis Corners isn't a very important place when you think of all New Hampshire,
00:54:21 #721 but I think it's a very nice town.
00:54:25 #722 Well, the day wouldn't come when I wouldn't want to know everything about our town.
00:54:31 #723 Well, I know that's true, Emily.
00:54:36 #724 Well, try to make my letters interesting.
00:54:40 #725 You know, Emily, whenever I meet a farmer, I ask him if he thinks it's important to go to agricultural school to be a good farmer.
00:54:53 #726 Well, George.
00:54:55 #727 Yeah, and some of them even say it's a waste of time and I didn't get all that stuff anyway in the half minutes
00:55:01 #728 The government puts out Uncle Luke's getting pretty old and he's about ready for me to start taking over this farm
00:55:11 #729 Tomorrow if I could
00:55:15 #730 George maybe it's important for you to go and learn all that about
00:55:20 #731 cattle judging and
00:55:22 #732 So I wasn't those things. Of course I don't know. I'm going to make up my mind right now.
00:55:33 #733 I won't go. I'll tell Paul about it tonight. But you don't have to decide right now.
00:55:38 #734 It's the whole year away. I'm glad you spoke to me about that.
00:55:44 #735 I thought my character. Everything you said was right.
00:55:47 #736 But there was one thing wrong with it. That's when you said I wasn't noticing people.
00:55:52 #737 You, for instance, you say you were watching me when I did everything.
00:55:59 #738 I was doing the same thing about you all the time.
00:56:02 #739 Why?
00:56:04 #740 Sure, I always thought about you.
00:56:08 #741 One of the cheap people I thought about.
00:56:10 #742 Well, he's made sure you're sitting on the bleachers, who you were with.
00:56:16 #743 Three days now, I've been trying to walk home with him, but something's always gotten away.
00:56:23 #744 got no way yesterday I'm standing out by the wall waiting for you and I'll come
00:56:31 #745 with this cocksure and George life's awful funny how could I have known that I'm
00:56:42 #746 like I'm gonna tell you why I'm not going to agriculture school I think once
00:56:49 #747 you found a person that you're very farmed out a person who's found a view
00:56:55 #748 to make sure well enough to be interested in your character I think
00:57:01 #749 That's just as important as college isn't even more so.
00:57:07 #750 That's what I think I think it's awfully important to.
00:57:18 #751 Yes George and I if I do improve and.
00:57:26 #752 Make a big change would you be.
00:57:33 #753 I mean. Could you be I am now.
00:57:39 #754 I always have been.
00:57:40 #755 So I guess it's a pretty important talk we've been having.
00:57:52 #756 Yes, yes.
00:57:57 #757 Walk you home.
00:58:17 #758 Yes.
00:58:27 #759 I'm going to pay you for this.
00:58:31 #760 Why, George Gibbs, do you mean to tell me that you...
00:58:34 #761 But, Mr. Morgan, I had a reason.
00:58:36 #762 Look, I'll leave my gold watch with you until I get back.
00:58:39 #763 No, no, no. You keep your watch, George. I'll trust you.
00:58:41 #764 But I'll be back in five minutes.
00:58:43 #765 I'll trust you for ten years, George.
00:58:45 #766 Not a day more, though.
00:58:47 #767 All right, Marlowe.
00:58:55 #768 Thank you, Mr. Morgan. It's nothing.
00:58:57 #769 I'm ready.
00:59:00 #770 Now to get on with the wedding.
00:59:14 #771 There's a lot of things to be said about a wedding.
00:59:20 #772 We can't get them all into one wedding, naturally.
00:59:23 #773 Especially not a wedding in Grover's Corners,
00:59:25 #774 where weddings are mighty short and plain.
00:59:28 #775 People think a lot of thoughts during a wedding.
00:59:31 #776 The bride, the groom, the relatives and the guests,
00:59:35 #777 and even the minister.
00:59:37 #778 Yes, a lot of thoughts go on during a wedding.
00:59:41 #779 a wedding. I've married 200 couples in my day. M marries M. Millions of them. The
00:59:54 #780 college, the go-kart, Sunday afternoon drives in the country. The first
00:59:59 #781 rheumatism, the grandchildren, the second rheumatism, the deathbed, the reading of
01:00:05 #782 the will. Once in a thousand times it's interesting. I don't know why on earth I
01:00:15 #783 I should be crying.
01:00:17 #784 I suppose there's nothing to cry about.
01:00:20 #785 In the morning with breakfast, there was Emily eating her breakfast as she's done for 17 years.
01:00:30 #786 She's gone out of my house.
01:00:45 #787 I don't want to get married. Why can't I stay for a while, if I am?
01:00:50 #788 Do you remember what you used to say all the time that I was your girl?
01:00:57 #789 I get old. I don't want to get old.
01:01:16 #790 Taking on all these responsibilities.
01:01:18 #791 Why is everybody pushing me so?
01:01:20 #792 All I want to do is be a fella.
01:01:23 #793 And I'm going to get married.
01:01:25 #794 Sheriff Ma, I'm getting married.
01:01:33 #795 Hello, Ma.
01:01:35 #796 Now, Ma, you see Thursday night.
01:01:37 #797 Emily and I will be over for supper every Thursday night.
01:01:40 #798 You'll see.
01:01:41 #799 Come on, Ma. We've got to get ready for this.
01:01:46 #800 Got the ring?
01:01:47 #801 Oh, yes, sir.
01:01:49 #802 Come on.
01:01:50 #803 We are gathered together here in the sight of God
01:03:12 #804 and in the face of this company
01:03:14 #805 me to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony don't know when I
01:03:19 #806 think that's a lovely wedding. I don't know how it is but I always cry.
01:03:26 #807 I just like to see young people.
01:03:29 #808 With this holy estate these two persons
01:03:30 #809 can come out and be joined. I've never been with such a nice wedding.
01:03:35 #810 I'm sure. To love and to cherish till death you do part according to God's
01:03:41 #811 holy ordinance and that to play to your trial I do do you Emily take George to your
01:03:49 #812 wedded husband to have and to hold from this day forward for better for worse for
01:03:54 #813 richer for poorer in sickness and in health to love and to cherish till death you
01:04:00 #814 do part according to God's holy ordinance and that to play to me a trough. I do.
01:04:07 #815 What token does thou give of thy sincerity?
01:04:13 #816 With this ring?
01:04:16 #817 Ivy wed.
01:04:19 #818 Or as much as George and Emily have consented together in holy wedlock,
01:04:23 #819 and have witnessed the same before God and this company,
01:04:26 #820 and have declared the same by giving and receiving a ring,
01:04:29 #821 I pronounce that they are husband and wife.
01:04:33 #822 Amen.
01:04:34 #823 Forever.
01:04:46 #824 Forever and ever.
01:04:48 #825 Hey, your first of months like usual.
01:05:08 #826 Hey, you're holly.
01:05:09 #827 Man, his age shouldn't be driving one of those things.
01:05:18 #828 Not when he's got a lot of young fellas to do it for him.
01:05:21 #829 Well, Howie likes to deliver the milk and stuff.
01:05:23 #830 Says he gets the feel of the town that way.
01:05:25 #831 You know, in all these years he never kept a book?
01:05:28 #832 Carries all the towns he's had.
01:05:29 #833 I hear he's been doing so well.
01:05:31 #834 He's begun locking his front door at nights.
01:05:33 #835 Freighter buglers.
01:05:35 #836 And he's no burglar in this town yet.
01:05:37 #837 Now, but Howie's heard about him.
01:05:40 #838 This time nine years have gone by friends.
01:06:01 #839 It's the summer of 1913.
01:06:04 #840 Gradual changes in Grover's Corners.
01:06:07 #841 Horses are getting rarer.
01:06:09 #842 Farmers are coming into town now and forwards.
01:06:12 #843 Still you'd be surprised though on the whole.
01:06:16 #844 Things don't change much around here.
01:06:20 #845 This is an important part of Grover's Corners up here in the Silt Hop.
01:06:26 #846 Lots of sky, lots of clouds, often lots of sun, moon, stars, certainly a beautiful spot up here.
01:06:35 #847 I often wonder why people want to be buried in wood lawn in Brooklyn when they might pass the same time up here in New Hampshire.
01:06:45 #848 Over here are the old stones. 1660, 1670. Strong-minded people who come a long ways to be independent.
01:06:56 #849 probably here are some Civil War veterans, iron flags on their graves, New Hampshire boys.
01:07:07 #850 They had a notion that the Union ought to be kept together, although they'd never seen
01:07:11 #851 more than 50 miles of it themselves. All they knew was the name, friends, the United States
01:07:18 #852 of America, the United States of America. And they went and died about it. This is
01:07:34 #853 the new part of the cemetery.
01:07:37 #854 There's Mrs. Soames who enjoy the wedding so much, remember?
01:07:42 #855 There's our friend Mrs. Gibbs.
01:07:45 #856 Doc Gibbs lost his wife three years ago, just about this time.
01:07:49 #857 And then there's the webs boy Wallace, who's appendix first on a boy scout trip to Crawford Notch.
01:07:55 #858 There's Mr. Stimson, the organist at the congregational church.
01:07:59 #859 He drank a lot, they used to say.
01:08:02 #860 Hung himself in the attic.
01:08:03 #861 They try to hush it up, but of course it got around.
01:08:06 #862 He wrote his own epitaph.
01:08:08 #863 Ain't a verse exactly, it's just a lot of notes.
01:08:12 #864 I wouldn't know what it was.
01:08:14 #865 It was all written up in the Boston papers at the time, though.
01:08:17 #866 A lot of sellers kind of quieted down up here too.
01:08:21 #867 All those important things, mother and daughter, husband and wife,
01:08:26 #868 enemy and enemy, money and miser,
01:08:29 #869 all those terribly important things.
01:08:33 #870 The earth part kind of burns away, burns out.
01:08:38 #871 And what's left?
01:08:40 #872 What's left when memory is gone?
01:08:43 #873 And your identity, Mrs. Smith?
01:08:45 #874 Something eternal.
01:08:50 #875 We all know down in our bones that something is eternal,
01:08:54 #876 and that something has to do with human beings.
01:08:57 #877 All the greatest people that have lived for the past 5,000 years have been telling us that.
01:09:02 #878 And yet you'd be surprised how we lose sight of that fact.
01:09:06 #879 There's something eternal about ever-being human being.
01:09:10 #880 I guess I'm thinking these thoughts today on account of our friend Emily.
01:09:17 #881 Another baby's expected down at that happy homeless saw started.
01:09:21 #882 It's Emily's second.
01:09:23 #883 There's a little boy about six years old.
01:09:26 #884 But this time Emily's pretty sick.
01:09:29 #885 Doc Gibbs is going around these days with a mighty worried face.
01:09:34 #886 Wasn't it a lovely wedding?
01:10:55 #887 I remember I called on George and Emily at their farm just before I died.
01:11:00 #888 What a beautiful farm.
01:11:03 #889 As we gather here in the last tribute of memory to our loved one.
01:11:44 #890 Hello, Mother Gibbs.
01:11:46 #891 Let us remember the words of our family.
01:11:48 #892 Hello, Emily.
01:11:49 #893 I am the resurrection and the light.
01:11:51 #894 Oh, Mrs. So.
01:11:53 #895 He that believes.
01:11:54 #896 Hello, sis.
01:11:58 #897 Hello, why?
01:12:00 #898 Eternal in the heavens.
01:12:39 #899 Father Gibbs is bringing some of my flowers to you.
01:12:41 #900 Gibbs, I never realized how troubled them were.
01:12:57 #901 Sad, he looks.
01:12:59 #902 I loved himself.
01:13:00 #903 Father Gibbs?
01:13:06 #904 The Gibbs.
01:13:35 #905 When does this feeling go away?
01:13:37 #906 Strange, yes.
01:13:41 #907 Long. Just wait. How do you do.
01:13:53 #908 How do you do. Mother give. George and I have made that
01:13:59 #909 farm just the best place you ever saw. We thought of you all the time.
01:14:05 #910 Want to show you the new bar. The great long semen drinking fountain for
01:14:10 #911 the stuff we bought that out of the money you left.
01:14:12 #912 This. I. Remember. The legacy you left.
01:14:22 #913 With more than three hundred and fifty dollars.
01:14:28 #914 Yes. Will be the same to George without.
01:14:39 #915 But it's a lovely. My boy spending the day at Mrs Carter.
01:14:49 #916 Oh Mr Carter my little boy is spending the day at your house.
01:14:52 #917 Yes, he loves us there.
01:14:56 #918 A mother Gibb.
01:15:00 #919 One can go back in memory
01:15:05 #920 and just eat those days over at him.
01:15:08 #921 Just then for a moment I was thinking about Dr. Farms.
01:15:15 #922 For a moment I was there
01:15:18 #923 and my baby was in my arms as plain as death.
01:15:21 #924 Yes, but when you've been here lonely
01:15:24 #925 you'll realize that all I fear is to forget him.
01:15:27 #926 I don't know.
01:15:29 #927 You think of what is I hear.
01:15:32 #928 And be ready for what is I hear.
01:15:34 #929 You know that gives how can I ever forget that life.
01:15:40 #930 It's all I know, it's all I have.
01:15:42 #931 You think you'll make me live all those days over it.
01:15:50 #932 I feel it, I know it.
01:15:53 #933 You're not only living.
01:15:55 #934 You watch yourself living it.
01:15:59 #935 It's a happy day.
01:16:00 #936 Oh, Emma, it isn't wise.
01:16:03 #937 Really, it isn't.
01:16:05 #938 I'll use it today.
01:16:06 #939 I first knew I loved George.
01:16:08 #940 Why should that be a thing?
01:16:15 #941 Because it's the happiest day,
01:16:17 #942 but at the hardest,
01:16:18 #943 to relive and to forget.
01:16:21 #944 I must use an unimportant day.
01:16:30 #945 Choose the least important day in your life.
01:16:34 #946 It will be important enough.
01:16:36 #947 Think hard.
01:16:49 #948 Remember?
01:16:50 #949 The livery table.
01:17:14 #950 And you're the little girl.
01:17:23 #951 There's the old white fence that used to be around our house.
01:17:26 #952 So I'd forgotten.
01:17:28 #953 I love it so.
01:17:40 #954 Coming downstairs to make friends.
01:18:02 #955 Joe Crowell.
01:18:07 #956 Kelledyn.
01:18:08 #957 Emily.
01:18:09 #958 Wally.
01:18:12 #959 Time to get up.
01:18:13 #960 Morning, Miss Webb.
01:18:14 #961 Morning, Miss Newell.
01:18:16 #962 Yes, I'm.
01:18:17 #963 And below, but my morning, Miss Webb.
01:18:23 #964 Keep yourself ramped up, Mr. Newsom.
01:18:26 #965 Yes, I'm.
01:18:27 #966 Oh, tell Emily many happy returns today.
01:18:33 #967 No, I know.
01:18:35 #968 It's my 16th birthday.
01:18:37 #969 Find my blue hair as many as you can.
01:18:41 #970 Yes, I'll find it. I did. That's all.
01:18:43 #971 I laid it out special for you on the dresser there.
01:18:46 #972 If it were a snake, it'd bite you.
01:18:52 #973 Young mama luck.
01:18:54 #974 I didn't know mama was ever that young.
01:18:56 #975 What about Howie?
01:18:57 #976 Yeah, I've been back to move to college. New York State.
01:19:02 #977 Make a speech.
01:19:03 #978 Any news here?
01:19:04 #979 I have a couple of calls up this morning to rescue
01:19:06 #980 a foolish thought during your process he was put that in the paper. Morning mother
01:19:15 #981 well there you are back at last time to go Charles. Oh fine I guess I told him a few
01:19:20 #982 things everything all right here yes can't think that they've happened special
01:19:25 #983 in mighty cold. How he knew some things can blow down his bond yes well it's colder
01:19:30 #984 than that at Hamilton College student cheers are falling off a Christian.
01:19:34 #985 I never have any mistakes in it.
01:19:36 #986 None that I noticed.
01:19:38 #987 Well, you can have your coffee when you want it, Charles.
01:19:40 #988 Don't forget it's Emily's birthday.
01:19:43 #989 Did you remember to get anything?
01:19:45 #990 Got her right here.
01:19:46 #991 Where's my girl?
01:19:48 #992 Where's my birthday girl?
01:19:49 #993 Don't interrupt her now, Charles.
01:19:51 #994 You can see her at breakfast. She's slow enough as it is.
01:19:53 #995 Why can't they?
01:19:58 #996 Why did they ever have to get old?
01:20:03 #997 Mama, I'm here.
01:20:09 #998 I'm grown up.
01:20:11 #999 I love you all.
01:20:15 #1000 Everything?
01:20:17 #1001 I can't look at everything hard enough.
01:20:20 #1002 Shut up, children. Seven o'clock. I don't want to call you again.
01:20:26 #1003 Morning, Mama.
01:20:37 #1004 Well, now, dear.
01:20:39 #1005 A happy birthday to my girl and many happy returns.
01:20:42 #1006 The size is waiting for you on the table there.
01:20:44 #1007 Oh, Mama, you shouldn't have.
01:20:46 #1008 Can't I?
01:20:47 #1009 Can't.
01:20:48 #1010 Birthday or no birthday, I want you to eat your breakfast good and slow.
01:20:51 #1011 I want you to grow up and be a good, strong girl.
01:20:53 #1012 That and the booze package is from your aunt, Harry.
01:20:58 #1013 Good morning. Good morning, George.
01:21:01 #1014 I brought this over for your birthday, aren't we?
01:21:03 #1015 I mean, happy returns of the day.
01:21:05 #1016 Thank you.
01:21:06 #1017 You told me a photograph album.
01:21:08 #1018 George, I'd forgotten.
01:21:10 #1019 Oh, it's beautiful.
01:21:12 #1020 Just an album.
01:21:15 #1021 I'm going out to my uncle Luke's farm today.
01:21:18 #1022 Like it out there.
01:21:19 #1023 George, we grew up and were married, don't you remember?
01:21:23 #1024 Uncle Luke gave you the farm.
01:21:26 #1025 Well, goodbye.
01:21:27 #1026 Goodbye and thanks.
01:21:29 #1027 To the Satan, good and slow, it'll help keep you warm on a cold day.
01:21:36 #1028 Mama, just look at me for one minute as though you really saw me.
01:21:43 #1029 Mama, 12 years have gone by.
01:21:47 #1030 I'm dead.
01:21:50 #1031 I married George Gibbs, Mama.
01:21:52 #1032 He said, too, Mama, his appendix burst on the Cabin to Procrafat Notch.
01:21:59 #1033 We felt just terrible about it, don't you remember?
01:22:02 #1034 For a moment now, we're all together.
01:22:09 #1035 Mama, let's be happy just for a moment.
01:22:13 #1036 Let's look at one another.
01:22:15 #1037 That in the yellow package is something I found in the attic among your grandmother's things.
01:22:20 #1038 They're old enough to wear it now, and I thought maybe you'd like it.
01:22:23 #1039 Oh, and this is from you.
01:22:26 #1040 It's lovely. It's just what I wanted.
01:22:29 #1041 It's beautiful.
01:22:30 #1042 I hoped you'd like it.
01:22:33 #1043 Wally had the present for you, too.
01:22:34 #1044 He made it an annual training class.
01:22:36 #1045 Be sure and make a fuss over it.
01:22:38 #1046 Your father's not a surprise for you too.
01:22:41 #1047 I don't know what it is myself.
01:22:44 #1048 There he comes.
01:22:45 #1049 Where's my girl? Where's my birthday girl?
01:22:48 #1050 I can't, I can't go home.
01:22:50 #1051 Go too fast.
01:22:58 #1052 You don't have time to look at one another.
01:23:04 #1053 Realize, know all that was going on.
01:23:21 #1054 And we never noticed.
01:23:26 #1055 First I go back to my grave.
01:23:33 #1056 One wall look.
01:23:39 #1057 Goodbye.
01:23:40 #1058 Goodbye world.
01:23:44 #1059 My grove is calling.
01:23:49 #1060 Mama's papa.
01:23:51 #1061 He's been by the clock for taking it.
01:23:56 #1062 But he's not killing Mama's son's life.
01:23:59 #1063 Food is coffee.
01:24:03 #1064 I am dressed as a hot bath.
01:24:06 #1065 Sleeping and waking up.
01:24:10 #1066 Where is your two wonderful women about to...
01:24:15 #1067 Any human being's ever realized life while they live it?
01:24:21 #1068 Every, every minute.
01:24:22 #1069 Oh, I want to live, I want to live, I want to...
01:24:27 #1070 Of course you do, Emily. Of course.
01:24:29 #1071 Most everybody's asleep in Grover's Corners.
01:25:14 #1072 Oh, there are a few lights on.
01:25:18 #1073 Down at the depot, Shorty Hawkins has just watched the Albany train go by.
01:25:22 #1074 Cross out in George and Emily's farm.
01:25:25 #1075 They're still up.
01:25:27 #1076 Talking over the new baby, I suppose.
01:25:30 #1077 It's like what one of those Midwestern poets said.
01:25:34 #1078 You got a love life to have life,
01:25:36 #1079 and you got a have life to love life.
01:25:49 #1080 11 o'clock in Grover's Corners.
01:25:52 #1081 Bar is another day. Everybody's resting in Grober's corners.
01:25:58 #1082 You get a good rest too. Good night.