Gary and I sometimes watch PBS on WQED Pittsburgh. We watch Finding Your Roots (of course), and also lots of the old concerts they show during their telethon fundraisers.

Tonight, it’s Country Duets, featuring Porter and Dolly, George and Tammy, Conway and Loretta. In a clip of George and Tammy singing “Golden Rings” on Hee Haw in 1976, their daughter Georgette, six years old, runs out from behind them on the set as they finish the tune.

My family watched Hee Haw every Saturday night when I was a kid in the 70s. Now, the PBS telethon announcers talk to us in simple vanilla nostalgia and offer the concert footage on CD for those who donate. (That’s right, on CD.)

We are, apparently, old. And I can tell, because I honestly do sometimes long for those good ol’ days — the days before everything we knew about life was about to change.