Chuck and Brenda Pierson have been in Mount Airy this week trying to solve a mystery.
The two have been in town celebrating their 53rd wedding anniversary in a curious way — trying to find just where they were married.
The couple, Ohio natives who have lived in the Newport area of North Carolina since 2012, were just young adults — she was 18, he was 20 — when they planned a clandestine wedding more than five decades ago, as 1969 was drawing to a close. They put that plan in action just after the first of 1970 — the two hopped in a car, drove from Ohio to North Carolina, where they could marry without parental permission or a waiting period, and Mount Airy was the first city they found once they drove across the border.
Brenda Pierson said both sets of parents were not necessarily…
