PHOTO CAPTION:  Original cast members< from the left, Jim Nabors, Don Knotts, Andy Griffith, and Ron Howard get together in The Andy Griffith Show Reunion: Back to Mayberry on November 11th on CBS.

"BACK TO MOUNT AIRY"
	by Richard Evans, Editor

	I'm sure many Sparger and Spargur descendants, as well as other Wolfensberger cousins, spent  time in front of their TVs in the evening of November 11th last year to watch a stroll down memory lane as Andy Griffith, Jim Nabors, Don Knotts and Ron Howard relived the long running TV show, The Andy Griffith Show in a reunion presented by CBS.  This was especially timely for my wife Nancy and I since we were just there in Mayberry, I mean Mount Airy, last August for the Sparger family reunion.
	I must admit I am no longer a fan of evening TV.  My TV watching includes the evening local and national news and 30 minutes of Wheel of Fortune while we eat supper.  I would much prefer the type of entertainment we enjoyed back in the 1960's when The Andy Griffith Show was making it big on TV.  I noted in an article about this show in the local Houston paper, that Andy, who is a few years older than I, does'nt watch much TV anymore either.
	While watching this show, I recalled sitting in a small restuarant with my wife, Nancy and Al and Fran Creasy on the mainstreet of Mount Airy sipping from a glass of iced tea watching the activity outside as people were preparing and gathering for a classic car parade down the street.  We waited in expectation to see the shiny black and white police car with Barnie at the wheel come cruising down the street.  But the police car was carefully parked in front of the Police Station.
	I did not know about my Mount Airy ties when our family watched The AndyGriffith Show many years ago as it was years later that I began my search for my family and discovered that my great grandparents, Tom and  Mary Sparger Evans, came to Texas from the Mount Airy area in 1895.  This made our visit to Mount Airy in August an even more meaningful event as we visited Guy and Mary Sparger's Antique home, discovered the Mount Airy Granite quarry, drove down Main Street with Al and Fran Creasy and walked through the carefully maintained cemeteries of the city and the Salem United Methodist Church searching for the resting places of our Sparger ancestors.   The Sparger monument in the Church cemetery is especially worth the visit.
	This seems like a good time to remind our members again to make a contribution to the Salem Church Cemetery and other cemeteries where our Wolfensberger ancestors are buried to help maintain these final resting places.       RLE.