![]() As an outsider, it reminds me of (stay with me here) St. The proof, Betty said, was in the fact that she’d stayed for more than a decade. She made a point of how much she loved it in Mount Airy. Betty rented at first, then decided to live there full time. But after her home in Los Angeles was broken into, Jones encouraged her to move to Mount Airy. She’d come to the Mayberry Days festival a few times over the years. She never made all that much money off of playing Thelma Lou. She wasn’t aware, to Andy Griffith’s slight frustration, that North Carolina even had mountains. She didn’t know much about North Carolina when she was making the show. You can listen to our conversation in this very short podcast episode:īetty told me a couple of things that she’d told others. We didn’t talk for very long, but Betty was lovely and kind. Tanya Jones, who runs the Surry Arts Council, arranged a phone call. Then I started to think of who might, and that’s when I got in touch with Betty Lynn. I didn’t feel like I had much to say about the subject. I interviewed her two years ago for my podcast, Away Message, because a listener posed an intriguing question: How do outsiders see North Carolina? He was asking me because I’m originally from Ohio, but my only recollection was that I thought it might sort of resemble The Andy Griffith Show, the only piece of North Carolina-ish popular culture that had seeped into my childhood.
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