Documentary shows 'The Real Mayberry' - Entrepreneur Generations

A Barney Fife impersonator participates in
Mt. Airy's Mayberry Days. (photo provided)

Mt. Airy, North Carolina was the real-life inspiration for the fictional town of Mayberry in The Andy Griffith Show. On the show, neighbors were neighborly and the town's problems could be solved in a half-hour episode, but the reality is somewhat different. With his new documentary The Real Mayberry, Mt. Airy native Bill Hayes takes us beyond the pat answers of a TV show and digs into the problems and promise of living in a small town.

"But like any honest look at small-town America, the engaging film has no pat answers. What it does have are the right questions: What is special about our place? What is here that we can build on? How do we create opportunity while preserving what we love? And how do we pass on our town to a new generation that has new ideas?" Tim Marema reports for The Daily Yonder. "Your hometown may not have inspired Andy Griffith, but we bet it has more than a little in common with this former mill town on the North Carolina Piedmont."

Hayes told Marema that he made the documentary because "Our country is built on small towns in rural America and I feel like they're misunderstood and don't get the proper nurturing."

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