On Golden Pond is the story of Norman and Ethel Thayer in their golden years as they return to their summer home on Golden Pond for the 44th year. He is a retired professor, nearly eighty, with a heart palpitations and a failing memory--but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years his junior, delights in all the small things which have enriched and continue t