Two Hundred EightyEighth in the Famous People (FP) Series - Aunt Bee
Aunt Bee, Beatrice Taylor, is the paternal aunt of Sheriff Andy Taylor and grand-aunt to his son Opie Taylor. Aunt Bee was played by Frances Bavier (December 14, 1902 – December 6, 1989).
In the premier episode of The Andy Griffith Show, "The New Housekeeper", Aunt Bee returns to Mayberry after a five year sojourn in Morgantown, West Virginia, when Andy's housekeeper Rose marries and leaves his house. Aunt Bee thereafter manages Andy's household and becomes Opie's surrogate mother and grandmother.
Andy explains to Opie that he was raised by Aunt Bee and Bee later speaks of raising other Taylors. Bee is well known in Mayberry for her cooking skills. In the first episode, she serves a platter of fried chicken with all the trimmings, and thereafter her character is associated with wholesome, homecooked meals. She frequently contributes meals to community or church events, and brings picnic baskets of food to Mayberry's tiny jail for its lawmen and inmates.
While Aunt Bee is celebrated for her cuisine, she falls short as a pickler. In the second season episode "The Pickle Story", Aunt Bee makes quarts of inedible pickles to enter in a contest at the county fair. Andy and Barney refer to her pickles as "kerosene cucumbers". The episode often places on "Top Ten Favorite Episodes Lists" of fans and critics.
The one thing that has always bothered me, was that Aunt Bee was never shown to be outside watering the garden. Am I the only one that finds that strange? Oh well, I guess that's just something I'll never get over. Anyway, the cache is a small bison tube hidden in the Shady Grove Cemetery near a marker for another Beatrice. The camo is natural so the bison tube is in its original condition.
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