![]() Proof can be found throughout her new home, which she first learned was for sale exactly a year ago this week: among the tractor-trailer and a half full of personal belongings she shipped to Siler City from her triplex in L.A. She knows a thing or two about antiquities, and her life’s journey has given her a refined sense of nostalgia. She became an Egyptologist after her rearing in Kansas, and ultimately worked in Cairo for two decades. Some of those know about Bavier’s house, just minutes away, and drive by.Īnd some of those, of course, think: Why not? After shooting some obligatory pictures from the street or front yard, they knock on the door.Ĭan we come inside, they ask? Maybe take a look around? “Andy Griffith Show” fans who flock to Mount Airy as “Mayberry” tourists sometimes make the 90-minute jaunt to Siler City to see Bavier’s gravesite at Oakwood Cemetery, off U.S. Nail’s home, at 503 West Elk, has for years attracted the curious. “I didn’t really care who lived there,” says Nail. In the sitting room of the regal three-story brick house where actor Frances Bavier, Mayberry’s real Aunt Bee, lived and died, though, Nail makes an admission: she’s as interested as anyone else in all things Mayberry.īut she adores - absolutely adores - the Aunt Bee house.Īnd for the record, it wasn’t the legacy of Frances Bavier or Aunt Bee that drew her to Siler City. ![]() Nail’s actual stops - Cairo, Bangkok, London, the Isle of Man, and most recently, Los Angeles - were far more exotic than the fictional hometown of a folksy North Carolina sheriff, his precocious, freckled son, and a dowdy housekeeper known to everyone in town, even her elders, as “Aunt Bee.” ![]() The circuitous route that delivered Kathy Nail from the windswept plains of her birthplace in Wichita, Kansas, to her new home on West Elk Street in Siler City didn’t pass within a country mile of Mayberry. From Bill Horner III, Chatham News + Record ![]()
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