The Passing of an Icon!

Skeptics will tell you that the fictional world of 'Sheriff Andy Taylor' had no basis in reality and that it was nothing more than a Utopian story line presented for entertainment purposes only. They will tell you that the 'Mayberry' experience was designed to mislead people into thinking people once lived in such a fashion. They are the same ones who have claimed for years that no one ever lived 

in 'the Beav's' world and actors like Robert Young and Andy Griffith were 'perpetuating a fraud' upon those who followed so closely events in their world.

Of course, the skeptics are wrong! There are thousands of Mayberry's alive and well today, millions of Goobers, Aunt Bee's, and Opies...all living in a very real world. Sad that the skeptics cannot understand this. Even sadder that they have never experienced what many of us have.

I grew up in a 'Father Knows Best' family, June Cleaver was my 'mother' and Wally and the Beav, my best friends. How grateful I am for the experience....the experience I wish for all people today.

As for the liberal, metroplex oriented critics....your substance is not any greater than a TV reality show which, sadly, must be the the sum total of the world you live in.

Farewell, Andy, our friend. We'll continue to watch you in reruns and experience the 'reality' of the world you mirrored on the tube!!