My Mayberry

Posted on 21/06/2014 by Ol' Big Jim

A few well written words about my hometown, Piedmont, Alabama by Tracy Stewart. Read and remember!

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Piedmont and Mayberry

I’ve been reading with great interest the posts that are made on my Facebook feed “You Know You’re From Piedmont When…” The posts often bring a sense of happiness that I didn’t fully understand at first, but this morning I was driving to work and it occurred to me why they do. Those feelings come from the innocence of an era that I subconsciously long for. It is the same reason I enjoy The Andy Griffith Show reruns on TBS – even without the humorous episodes. In many ways, the writers for that show perfectly captured the essence of a typical, small southern town like Piedmont.

Mayberry had several characters that I could literally plug someone from Piedmont in that I knew growing up. With little effort I can imagine the character of Otis (the town drunk with a heart of gold) being created from someone…

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About Ol' Big Jim

Jim L Wright has been a storekeeper, an embalmer, a hospital orderly, and a pathology medical coder, and through it all, a teller of tall tales. Many of his stories, like his first book, New Yesterdays, are set in his hometown of Piedmont, Alabama. For seven years he lived in the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, Amman, Jordan where he spent his time trying to visit every one of the thousands of Ammani coffee shops and scribbling in his ever-present notebook. These days he and his husband, Zeek, live in a cozy little house in Leeds, Alabama. He’s still scribbling in his notebooks when he isn’t gardening or refinishing a lovely bit of furniture. His book, New Yesterdays, can be found at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Smashwords, and Barnes and Noble.
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