Widow Maggie MacKenzie is an elderly neighbor of the Waltons who emigrated from Scotland in 1879 to meet and marry her fiancé, Michael MacKenzie, also Scottish, who had come to the United States a year earlier. Maggie and Michael were wed on the deck of the ship that brought her to her new country by the ship's captain, who gave the newlyweds a 20 dollar goldpiece to commemorate the occasion. Every year on their wedding anniversay, Michael and Maggie journeyed back to the seashore to stand together on the beach and dine and dance in a special restaurant. Michael MacKenzie died 25 years later but Maggie promised herself that she would someday make the trip again, one last time before she died. This episode finds Maggie in 1934, determined to celebrate her 55th wedding anniversary by fulfilling that promise, even if it means disobeying her doctor's orders.
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