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His son, Albert C. Johnston Jr., one of four children, composed music including songs used in the film about the family. After working in Keene until the mid-1960s, Johnston Sr moved to the island of Kauai and worked as a radiologist at Wilcox
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was adapted from the book about the family was released, though changing the names of all involved and key elements were altered and made up. In 1989 a follow-up film,
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article about the family and a short book was published from it in 1948 titled,
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