After finishing up our business in Chapel Hill this afternoon, we geocached our way back to Deep River Campground. There were a few we looked for and didn’t find, but we did find five total. The most interesting involved Aunt Bee of Mayberry. She was played by the actress Frances Elizabeth Bavier who was born in NYC but died in Siler City NC in 1989. We didn’t find the cache titled Aunt Bee’s Pickles but another search took us to her headstone. Among the tokens left there was a jar of pickles. We remember the shows featuring Mayberry and we remember aunt Bee but neither of us remembers anything about pickles. Can anyone enlighten us?
The Aunt Bee pickle story was that she was entering a local fair with her recipe, but her friend Clara had been champion for the past 11 years. Bee takes her pickles to Andy’s office, but the boys think the pickles are horrible. To save her embarrassment, they switch store-bought pickles for hers and they had to eat 8 quarts of her pickles, but then the guilt kicks in and they eat them all so Bee has to make another batch using her own recipe.