The Washington Post has an interesting article about a CBS Sunday Morning piece Ted Koppel did earlier this year about The Andy Griffith show and Mt. Airy, NC, the self-appointed inspiration for Mayberry. Here’s the summary.
- A lot of people view the show through a nostalgic lens; times were good, everyone was friendly, people got along, etc., and wish they could live like that again
- Mayberry in the 1960s never existed – anywhere – and the problems of the 1960s – racial unrest and the Vietnam War, for example – were never brought up on the show
- Confusing fantasy with reality is problematic, to say the least
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