Non-Fiction

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Mount Pilot?

You bet—these books feature the real mountain Andy Griffith borrowed, renamed Mount Pilot, and made famous without asking permission of the owner, Ms. Pearl Beasley, at the time. Andy Griffith was raised just down the road from Pilot Mountain, in nearby Mt. Airy, just a dozen or so miles away from it. There was a running joke just how far away Mount Pilot was from Mayberry, often depending on who was driving. Andy Griffith, in his youth, must have looked at the Big Pinnacle of Pilot Mountain like it was a skyscraper.

While very different, if you liked reading Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series of books and Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain, these books on Pilot Mountain might be a good fit for your reading pleasure.

The cover of Faces of Pilot Mountain was taken on January 1, 2023.