A beloved local retiree known as “Mayberry’s photographer” to residents of Mount Airy, North Carolina — birthplace of TV legend Andy Griffith and the inspiration for the town of Mayberry ...

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MOUNT AIRY, N.C. — Fans of the Andy Griffith Show can head to Mount Airy this weekend for the 25th annual Mayberry Days. The festival has been going all week, and organizers say the rain will ...

Mayberry, North Carolina, is not a real place, however, many outlets have reported that the fictional town was based off of the real-life town of Mount Airy, North Carolina, where Andy grew up.

Mount Airy, N.C., the inspiration for Mayberry in the 1960s comedy "The Andy Griffith Show," has reinvented itself as a destination for hundreds of thousands of fans of the show who visit each ...

In Mount Airy, N.C., Andy Griffith’s boyhood slingshot is kept under glass, along with a suit he wore on television, several of his old comedy records, and a wrapper from an authentic Andy Gr… ...

MOUNT AIRY, N.C. — It’s been 36 years since Andy Griffith made his last television appearance as Sheriff Andy Taylor of Mayberry, a fictional small town in North Carolina.

MOUNT AIRY, N.C. — Life after Mayberry. Barney would say “nip it” when it comes to that thought but it is something tourism officials in the Surry County city today think about and plan for.

Mount Airy, population 10,400, hosts an annual Mayberry Days festival (Sept. 21-25 this year) that draws between 30,000 and 50,000 visitors from as far away as Germany, Japan and Australia - and ...

Andy Griffith young would seem to be best represented by The Andy Griffith Show, perhaps the most beloved and popular sitcoms ...

I was in Mount Airy recently for the Mayberry Days festival. My new Revolutionary War-themed novel "Mountain Folk" is partly set on the distinctive High Pinnacle of nearby Pilot Mountain, so it ...