Earl Hamner's "The Homecoming" was a novel and then a television movie, which eventually lead to the television program "The Waltons." His movie "Spencer's Mountain" (starring Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Sullivan, and James MacArthur)ended up being filmed and (I think) set in Wyoming but was based on his Virginia family -- loosely -- at least Earl's paternal grandmother was a Spencer from Buckingham County anyway!

I also remember a science fiction novel set in the Shenandoah Valley after a nuclear war, but I can't remember the title. It was probably written in the 1960s. Seems like the word "spring" was in the title somehow.

A search of the Library of Congress' catalog and that of the Library of Virginia and other large libraries will result in many titles (except the one I can't remember in the previous paragraph!).

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And a few novels set in the Virginia mountains:

Fox, John.  The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.  New York: Charles 
Scribner’s Sons, 1908.

The novels of Lee Smith:

        Black Mountain Breakdown.  New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1980.

        Oral History.  New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1983.
	
        Family Linen.  New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1985.

        Fair and Tender Ladies.  New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1988.

        The Devil's Dream.  New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1992.

        Saving Grace.  New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1995.

Also the Big Stone Gap series of novels by Adriana Trigiani, beginning 
with Big Stone Gap (New York: Random House, 2000).


--Jurretta Heckscher



On Jul 16, 2006, at 7:56 AM, Carolyn Carpenter wrote:

> I am compiling a list of novels and movies set in Virginia and would
> appreciate any suggestions for additions to this list by the members of
> this discussion group.
>
> Carolyn Carpenter

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