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| | Morgantown no Mayberry but it wants to be Barney Fife's home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | It is, however, the hometown of the late Don Knotts, whose long career as a stage, television and film actor was indelibly stamped by playing the hapless deputy in one of television's most beloved and successful comedies. |
 | | Knotts as uniformed Barney Fife, as a companion to statues of Andy Taylor and his freckle-faced son, Opie, that already stand in Mount Airy. |
 | | But in a hash of the kind that poor Barney himself might have stirred up, his fans in Mount Airy put down a non-refundable $9,000 deposit to cast Barney in bronze, then learned they didn't have the legal right to copy his likeness. |
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