... another result of adrien and jon's excellent navigation, we ended up in ... hmmm, well, in a state someplace between georgia and virginia, i wasn't paying attention ... it seems that andy griffith has not only a "childhood home" (sign read: "quiet, please, guests are living in the house"), a museum, a theater, but there is also a really nice statue honoring the man who portrayed the small-town sheriff who is still one of the top-ten all-time-great television/movie dads ... (atticus, as far as i'm concerned, still heads the list) ...
... to top off our visit, due to the most delightful way history has of twisting together lives, events, and places, next door to andy's shrine is the "siamese twin" museum, an entire room devoted to the lives of chang and eng bunker ... (how odd, that in their birthplace, siam, due to the fact that their father was thai-chinese and their mother was chinese-malay they were known as the "chinese twins") ... after touring with the circus, they settled in the south, where they owned slaves, were well respected as honorable businessmen, fathered twenty-one children, and lived to what was then the senior citizen age of sixty-three years ...
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