- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] The second World War brought women by the millions out of their homes and into the factories, doing jobs that normally would have been reserved for men. Attitudes changed as women found themselves to be every bit as capable as the men they replaced. All of Jefferson County watched with wonder when my sisters, Mary Ellen and Erin, decided to venture even farther into a man's world.
- Erin Walton: Mary Ellen's not the only one who made a wager, Daddy. I bet JD a week's wages.
- John Walton, Sr.: [turns to Elizabeth, exasperated] What did you bet Elizabeth, the house?