JOE TENNIS Right: Downtown Dahlonega, Georgia, features restaurant, shops and a gold museum. On this day, I interpret that sign as both sweet and sad. Hamner was the TV show's real-life John-Boy Walton. He passed away at age 92 on March 24, 2016. Still, the show goes on- across the street-at the Walton's Mountain Museum. Inside what was once a school, longtime museum coordinator Leona Roberts stands in that popular museum's replica of 38 BlueRidgeCountry.com JOE TENNIS Above: Kentucky Coal Mining Museum of Benham features exhibits on medicine and mining. "The Waltons" TV show living room and reveals the date for the museum's annual homecoming festival: Oct. 15. Beyond the living room, visitors like gazing at the museum's moonshine still replica, made to depict what the TV show's Baldwin sisters would have used to make "The Recipe" during the Great Depression. Funny thing: "The Recipe"http://www.BlueRidgeCountry.com