The bronze statue sits in a well-landscaped bower adjacent to the Andy Griffith Playhouse. Sheriff Andy Taylor holds his son Opie’s hand, fishing poles slung across their shoulders. I can picture the closing credits of The Andy Griffith Show: Andy & Opie walking down a country road with their poles, the snappy theme song being [...]
The stills’ cook pot sits down the hill by the creek, mounted atop a stone furnace. The copper tubing leading to the cooling barrel is green with verdigris. The wooden chute that carried water to cool the steaming moonshine is green with moss, but the mash barrels look almost new. The U.S. government once went [...]
The logo of the Oddfellas Cantina sums up the town of Floyd, VA. Drawn in the style of Grant Wood’s painting American Gothic, the logos’ graphic shows three men standing side by side: a farmer wearing bib overalls, holding a hoe; a Jerry Garcia lookalike, and a businessman in a suit sporting a bowler hat. [...]
