2026 Mayberry–I Love Lucy Festival Draws Crowds to Granville, Tennessee for Andy Griffith 100th Tribute, America250
~ 2026 Mayberry–I Love Lucy Festival Draws Crowds in Granville, TN, April 11 ~ 2026 Mayberry – I Love Lucy Festival in Granville, Tennessee, has concluded, marking a successful weekend celebration of classic television, nostalgia, and community entertainment. The April 10–11, 2026 event brought fans together to honor the legacy of Andy Griffith and beloved sitcoms The Andy Griffith Show and I Love Lucy. As a major heritage tourism event, the festival featured themed attractions, live performances, and interactive experiences…
Christmas in Mayberry
~A poem about Christmas in Mayberry and “The Andy Griffith Show”~ It’s Christmas in Mayberry, the mountains are white Opie and his friends are all filled with delight. The town is lit up, wreaths are on every door Andy whistles the carols he’s whistled before. Opie skips along Main Street to hear the Mayberry band, Leon lopes close behind him; what’s that in his hand? No, it isn’t a sandwich’s sticky remains, It’s Christmas and he clutches a new candy…
‘Twas The Night Before Christmas In Mayberry
‘Twas the night before Christmas when all through the courthouseNot a creechsture was stirring, not even a loaded goat…or mouse,Barney in the back room and Otis full of boozeHad just settled down for a long winter’s snoozeThe rifles and guns had been put up with care,In hopes that Barney would not go there.The Taylor family all tucked in their bedsThe whole town slumbered few worries in their heads.When at Mrs Wiley’s house there arose a clatterAnd through her front window…
Thanksgiving in Mayberry
~ Thanksgiving in Mayberry–A Poem for Thanksgiving Day ~ T hanksgiving in Mayberry — H elen and Ope home from school, A ndy closes the Courthouse; N ow Aunt Bee sets the rules, K eeping everything just so, S ets the table, cooks the food, G iving each guest big helpings I n the day’s festive mood. V ery soon all are seated I n the Taylor’s residence N ow it’s time for grace, says Andy, G ives thanks for…
Historic Granville Hosts Mayberry – I Love Lucy Festival
~ 2025’s Mayberry – I Love Lucy Festival in Granville a huge success ~ Mayberry – I Love Lucy Festival The Mayberry – Lucy Festival took place in scenic Granville, TN. Located in Jackson County near Carthage, Granville is surrounded on three sides by water and is home to quant historic businesses like Sutton’s General Store as well as farms that have stood for over 100 years, some standing for hundreds of years. It seems fitting that Granville has built…
Mayberry Comes to Granville
~ Mayberry-I Love Lucy Festival Comes to Granville, TN ~ The Mayberry – I Love Lucy Festival events in Granville, TN, will transport you to the hilariously funny and heartwarming black and white sitcoms, The Andy Griffith and I Love Lucy Show. The event will feature some of the best moments of your favorite episodes as family members, tribute artists and actors entertain you. The Festival will host family members. including Dixie Griffith, daughter of Andy Griffith and Karen Knotts, daughter…
Mt. Airy Coca Cola Sign to Be Restored
A project Christian Activities publisher Kathryn Darden undertook in 2001 is about to come to fruition when the Mt. Airy Coca Cola sign is finally restored
Dale Evans and Roy Rogers 100th Birthday Commemorated
October 31, 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of Dale Evans’ birth
Nip it in the bud!
I’ve always enjoyed newspaper comics. As a kid I would spread comic pages on the floor, lie down on my stomach, prop up with my elbows, cup my chin in my hands and enjoy the latest shenanigans of my favorite characters in such comic strips as Li’l Abner, Nancy and Sluggo, Popeye, Peanuts and Dagwood & Blondie. The “funny pages’ I called them, frequently referring to them as the “funnies,” such as when mother and daddy were reading the paper…
Beloved Sheriff of Mayberry, Andy Griffith Dead at 86
Beloved actor, singer and story teller Andy Griffith passed away today at 86. Several generations have grown up watching Sheriff Andy Taylor solve small-town crime and family disputes with humor and compassion on “The Andy Griffith Show” starting in the 1960s. The popular sitcom has remained on the air since then through reruns. Much of the storyline of “The Andy Griffith Show” was based upon Griffith’s childhood growing up in rural North Caroline in a small town called Mt. Airy….
