2019 Mayberry Day-by-Day Calendars Ready to Ship

Our first publication, the 2019 Mayberry Day-by-Day Flip Book Calendar, is in stock and ready to ship beginning this coming week! To order online and have them signed (and personalized, if desired), visit https://mayberrybooks.com/product/2019-mayberry-day-by-day-flip-book-calendar/ to use our secure shopping cart to pay by credit card or check. If you are attending Mayberry Days, there are a couple of other signing options as discussed below.

If you have read the other sections of our website or followed us on Facebook, you know that the daily desk calendar is not a random collection of 365 facts about the classic television series The Andy Griffith Show, but a collection of facts tied to each particular day.

As a bit of behind-the-scenes background, I did consider doing the calendar as the type where one rips off a page each day but there were a few issues with that approach. First and foremost, all of those calendars are printed in China. They have mammoth presses there that do nothing but print that type of calendar. I was determined that the publication be printed in the United States. Second, I believe many people who use the type of daily calendar with pages you remove toss the daily sheet of paper into the trash and hence into a landfill instead of recycling them. Add to that the oil-based plastic stand that those calendars are mounted on that likely end up in the trash and it just didn’t seem like the right approach for a Mayberry project.

After a lot of investigation and discussion with a printing company I have dealt with previously, the idea of a ring-bound calendar with an attached easel became the clear solution. Of course, the pages can still be removed, but I titled the publication a “flip book calendar” to call attention to the idea that at the end of the year, the easel can be removed and recycled resulting in a book that can be kept as a fun reference even though the dates will not match the following calendar year.

I will release a 2020 version, of course, with all new facts.

As stated, the calendar is available signed and personalized if desired from our website. If you are in the Mount Airy area at any point, the calendar will be for sale beginning the weekend of Mayberry Days at all the major stores in town Including Wally’s Service Station and the Andy Griffith Museum. But if you are going to be in town during Mayberry Days 2018, I will be signing (and personalizing, if desired) calendars sold by the Surry Arts Council at the Thursday night banquet and at Wally’s Service Station on Main Street Saturday after the parade from 11:30 to 1:30. Wally’s is going to be hopping the entire weekend, with bluegrass bands and food truck service in addition to their usual great shop and squad car tours. Please come by and say hello!

By the way, if you find yourself at the Mayberry Trading Post in the community of Mayberry in Meadows of Dan, Virginia right off the Blue Ridge Parkway near Mount Airy, they will have the calendars available for sale, too. If you are a Mayberry fan, you owe it to yourself to drive up there at some point. Be sure to tell Peggy I sent you!

The calendar will be available at these Mount Airy shops:

Wally’s Service Station
The Andy Griffith Museum
Mayberry on Main
Bear Creek Gifts and Fudge Factory
Mayberry Market & Souvenirs