Posted on July 3, 2012 at 1:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
News came this morning (July 3) that Andy Griffith, the beloved sheriff of TV's Mayberry passed away at his home on beautiful Roanoke Island, N.C.
He was 86.
Griffith was best known to the world as Andy Taylor or Ben Matlock on television, or as Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes, the role for which Griffith earned an Oscar nomination in Elia Kazan's "Face in the Crowd."
But when I lived on Roanoke Island, a place where every year-round resident is considered a neighbor, Mr.…
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Welcome, Paul! Good to have you here in the community!