Mount Airy was never quite Mayberry. The fictional North Carolina town portrayed in one of the 1960s’ most popular TV shows, The Andy Griffith Show, was spared real-world issues of that turbulent ...

MOUNT AIRY — If it happened in Mayberry, a recent ambitious upgrade of the Andy Griffith Museum would surely bring a response of “Big, REALLY BIG!” from Barney. Even among folks in modern-day Mount ...

MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (AP) — Betty Lynn, who was best known as Barney Fife's sweetheart Thelma Lou on “The Andy Griffith Show,” has died at the age of 95. The Andy Griffith Museum said in a statement that ...

Fifty-five years after its final episode, “The Andy Griffith Show” is making more of an impact than ever on Griffith’s hometown of Mount Airy. The small city in the hills of Surry County, about 100 ...

MOUNT AIRY, N.C. The new 2,500-square-foot Andy Griffith Museum in Mount Airy, N.C., houses a treasure trove of items collected by Emmett Forrest, a schoolmate and close friend of Griffith. Forrest's ...

If you didn’t know better, you might think the town of Mayberry really existed; a place where neighbors still wave from the porch, checkers games stretch long into the afternoon and where kindness is ...

Visitors are guaranteed a Bigfoot sighting since volunteers painted a mural on the side of the Cryptozoology and Paranormal Museum in Littleton. Bigfoot is shown peering out from behind a tree in ...