Show BOTH HUMOR AND POETRY EVINCED IN PLACE NAMES the southern mountaineer a ahlm meal humor tg Is teen seen not only in tome some of his songs and hoe downs but in place names commemorating some come jest some gome episode more or less leaa grimly comical or tragic broke jug creek tear breeches ridge chunky gat gal mountain seldom seen hollow rip shin ridge ouch I 1 how vividly that recalls certain scrambles through stony thickets burnt shirt mountain jerk em EIB tight hanging dog c creek r eek headforemost mountain bore anger creek flery fiery gizzard creek the davirs courthouse and so on in cumberland county tennessee two beautiful brawling streams ams unite whose names are no business creek and how come you creek undoubtedly there la Is a story back of each name but the mountaineer Is often poe poetic tic too and gracefully descriptive in his bis place names the touch of melancholy in his nature la Is evidenced by the frequent recurrence of such names as lonesome and troublesome desolation defeated poor fork kingdom come falling water and lost creek are significant names of streams craggy dome balsom cone the black brothers lone bald thunderhead little snowbird grandfather Hawks hawksbill bill graybeard and wine spring bald are nil all mountains lyrically and de script ively named I 1 asked a mountain man in north carolina whether a certain bold promontory had a name and I 1 have a pleasant memory of the slow lift of his eyes to where it towered 1000 feet above us and the soft drawl of his mellow low pitched voice as he answered yas hits called the winter star i alvan F harlow in 11 the saturday evening post |