Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hallmark Channel has shows like that.
I remember when the daughter cousin Mary Ellen Ingalls went blind. Those episodes were genuinely frightening. Didn't she wake up screaming?
Yo7 hi conflated two characters.
Mary Ellen was the eldest daughter on The Waltons
Mary Ingalls was the older sister of Laura Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie. She became blind due to scarlet fever.
I had Scarlett fever in 4th grade in the 1970s. My mom made a big deal about it. That show frightened me.
And the blonde girl with the pigtails was so mean.
Nelly Olson!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hallmark Channel has shows like that.
I remember when the daughter cousin Mary Ellen Ingalls went blind. Those episodes were genuinely frightening. Didn't she wake up screaming?
Yo7 hi conflated two characters.
Mary Ellen was the eldest daughter on The Waltons
Mary Ingalls was the older sister of Laura Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie. She became blind due to scarlet fever.
I had Scarlett fever in 4th grade in the 1970s. My mom made a big deal about it. That show frightened me.
And the blonde girl with the pigtails was so mean.
Did your parents not believe in antibiotics? Scarlet fever is just strep so has not been a big problem since antibiotics became widely available after WW2. And although it can kill you bu infecting your heart (what happened to Beth in Little Women) it doesn’t make you go blind. Wilder used scarlet fever in the book because people had heard of scarlet fever but it was almost certainly encephalitis that made her sister go blind.
Anonymous wrote:The thing is, kids aren't watching TV anyway. Rounding them up to watch The Waltons would feel like punishment to them. I could see it being effective if you start them off young before they're hooked on tablets and YouTube.. When DD was really young she decided she liked to watch Father Knows Best. The furnishings and clothes fascinated her and she thought Kitty was fancy.![]()
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hallmark Channel has shows like that.
I remember when the daughter cousin Mary Ellen Ingalls went blind. Those episodes were genuinely frightening. Didn't she wake up screaming?
Yo7 hi conflated two characters.
Mary Ellen was the eldest daughter on The Waltons
Mary Ingalls was the older sister of Laura Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie. She became blind due to scarlet fever.
I had Scarlett fever in 4th grade in the 1970s. My mom made a big deal about it. That show frightened me.
And the blonde girl with the pigtails was so mean.
Did your parents not believe in antibiotics? Scarlet fever is just strep so has not been a big problem since antibiotics became widely available after WW2. And although it can kill you bu infecting your heart (what happened to Beth in Little Women) it doesn’t make you go blind. Wilder used scarlet fever in the book because people had heard of scarlet fever but it was almost certainly encephalitis that made her sister go blind.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hallmark Channel has shows like that.
I remember when the daughter cousin Mary Ellen Ingalls went blind. Those episodes were genuinely frightening. Didn't she wake up screaming?
Yo7 hi conflated two characters.
Mary Ellen was the eldest daughter on The Waltons
Mary Ingalls was the older sister of Laura Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie. She became blind due to scarlet fever.
I had Scarlett fever in 4th grade in the 1970s. My mom made a big deal about it. That show frightened me.
And the blonde girl with the pigtails was so mean.
Anonymous wrote:I used to love hearing the theme song of Little House. I don't know why. It was interesting to see what life was like on the prairie. And of course Michael Landon was so attractive. I remembered watching him in "I Was A Teenage Werewolf" on a CBS afternoon movie.