Andy Griffith

News and opinions about TV actor Andy Griffith. According to Wikipedia: Andy Samuel Griffith is an American actor, Grammy Award winning singer, writer and producer from Mount Airy, North Carolina. Best known as the star of A Face in the Crowd, The Andy Griffith Show and Matlock, he was the only child of Carl Lee and Geneva Nann Nunn Griffith. He began college studying to be a Moravian preacher, but changed his major to music. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned a bachelor's degree in music in 1949. While at UNC, he was president of the UNC Men's Glee Club and was a member of the Alpha Rho Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, America's oldest fraternity for men in music. After graduation, he taught English at Goldsboro High School, Goldsboro, NC for a few years.

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Four Murdered in Mayberry

An arrest has been made after four men were killed in a parking lot in Mount Airy, the small North Carolina town that was the inspiration for Mayberry in television's The Andy Griffith Show. Marcos Chavez Gonzalez was charged with four counts of murder in the shooting late Sunday outside a TV store, police said. Mount Airy, population 8,700, is the hometown of Andy Griffith and has built a tourist trade on nostalgia for the 1960s show that...

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