Christmas Card from The Newsome's 2022 https://youtu.be/AImMay2NH-E
Another year has passed and even more exciting things have fallen our way. In 2021, The Mayberry Effect documentary & Mayberry Man movie premiered in the early fall. Allan believed this would be the end of his career on "film." Little did we know that Mayberry Man: The Series would be filming in 2022. What a blessing to be able to add even more to the Mayberry lore through the series (expected to come out late 2023). At some point in the production of the series, the realization hit Allan that he would actually be sharing the screen with both Karen Knotts & Ronnie Schell. It has been an honor to be on screen with fellow cast members but the realization of being there with Mayberry royalty is even more exciting as a fan of The Andy Griffith Show. Jan and I were blessed to join fans on the Mayberry Cruise 2022, after two years of covid related cancelling. During the cruise, we were able to spend time with Clint & Kat Howard who are both as wonderful as you would expect. Mayberry events picked back up and fans were eager to leave the pandemic behind them and have some clean Mayberry fun. This year also marked the 10th Annual Mayberry Meet-up in Mt. Airy, NC. The Meet-up was started because of Allan going to Mt. Airy to interview Betty "Thelma Lou" Lynn for his podcast and saying, "If anyone's in town, we can meet-up" never expecting anyone to show. About thirty people showed up that first time and then folks started asking, "When are we doing it next year?" Ten years later, we're still going strong with about 200 attending during the Meet-up weekend and the Two Chairs No Waiting podcast reaching the 14 year mark and 712+ episodes. WeaversDepartmentStore.com is now Jan's only job having resigned her 14 year long employment as an office manager at a veterinarian. Jan is staying fairly busy keeping things stocked and shipping orders. Thank you for that! In 2023, Jan and Allan will be picking up the duties of writing/editing the Weaver's Newsletter from long time editor Jim Clark. We'll do our best to continue to give the fans of The Andy Griffith Show the high quality content they've come to expect. Please subscribe to the FREE newsletter. Rest assured that your contact information will not be shared. All-in-all, God has certainly blessed us. Thank you for your friendship and support. Merry Christmas! Allan & Jan Newsome _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.wbmutbb.com/
