Looking for Andy Griffith: A Father's Journey - Hardcoverby Evan Dalton Smith (Author) Andy Griffith (1926 2012) is one of North Carolina's most beloved exports, capturing America's heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor. Evan Dalton Smith was born in the North Carolina Piedmont over four decades after Andy, just an hour south of Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy. Both were small town boys who grew up in similar places, where the counties were dry and the churches plentiful. But for both, there was darkness, crushed