Listening to Grandpa Davey reading “Weird Ben” to the grandkids via Skype last night was such a hoot. Sitting in his chair in front of the webcam with a blanket wrapped around him, he raised his voice and told everybody to shut up and began reading M and E’s eight page story that they wrote when they were little. I absolutely adore […]
Bonanza
Bonanza and Weird Ben
The Cartwrights rode into Americans living rooms in 1959. Bonanza was a family western about a three timed widower raising three sons on his ranch, “The Ponderosa“, near Virginia City, Nevada. It captured the hearts of viewers for fourteen years. It starred Lorne Greene as Ben Cartwright, the wise father, Pernell Roberts as […]
