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Andy Griffith’s Widow to Raze His Home

Posted on 03/21/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | UncategorizedBy Martha Waggoner of The Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The widow of actor Andy Griffith has gotten a permit to tear down the house where he lived for many years on the North Carolina waterfront, upsetting friends who had hoped it would be preserved as a museum or Graceland-type estate. Cindi Griffith obtained the demolition permit Monday, according to Dare County records. County officials and friends confirmed the permit is to demolish a smaller house along the Roanoke …

Bye Now, Andy. Y’All Take Care, Y’Hear?

Posted on 07/3/2012 by | Movies & TV | Comments

LegacyJim “Gomer Pyle” Nabors, who owed his entire career to Andy Griffith, once told me about the first time the two ever met,  after Andy had seen his nightclub act in the early 1960s. “I don’t know what you do,” Andy told the young singer-comedian. “But you do it very well.” For Andy Griffith, who died July 3 at age 86, there may have a level of self-recognition in that observation. Ten years earlier, Andy himself had exploded into the …