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# Little Free Library is coming together
- URL: https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/little-free-library-is-coming-together/
- Published: 2025-10-06T17:33:27.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-06T17:33:27.000Z
- Author: Carla Pettigrew
- Tags: Little Free Library, Earl Hamner, Margaret Hufstedler, family, Virginia, The Waltons, tv, The Twilight Zone, horror tv, Cupcakes Library

Isn't it pretty? The charter and dedication plaques for the Little Free Library have arrived! Eat Hamner, Jr. was the real John Boy Walton from right here in Nelson County; Margaret Hufstedler was [my mother-in-law](https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/i-would-like-to-share-my-mother-in-law-with-you/), and she wrote music and taught adults to read in Nelson County for decades. 

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![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f5/6df583d7-3da2-455c-b104-e0c5ab8c796a/content/images/2025/10/IMG_4308.jpg)

Here's [the upcoming location on the Little Free Library map](https://map.lflapp.org/JMZhUQbCXWb); it will be open in a couple of weeks. It's at the Nelson County Historical Society's Oakland Museum, just behind the statue of Earl Hamner, Jr.

[Spencer's Mountain: The Family That Inspired the Waltons](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780795353444) by Earl Hamner

[Goodnight, John Boy: A Celebration of an American Family and the Values That Have Sustained Us Through Good Times and Bad](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781581822984) by Earl Hamner and Ralph Giffin

[The Twilight Zone Scripts of Earl Hamner](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781581823301)

[Earl Henry Hamner, Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl%5FHamner%5FJr.)

[Walton's Mountain Museum](http://walton-mountain.org) (a truly lovely place to visit)