The neatest person's name ever found, for me, was Icy Bell Liptrap. Was searching through a phone book up in the Valley once for unusual names to use in a mag article and wound up going to met the eightysomething spinster. What an honor!
Once upon a time found a Peachy Pittman, a Flossie Fern and a Felita F. Flickinger.
One of my secrets in writing is to carry a few small yellow legal pads in the car while traveling out and about my native Virginia, collecting NEAT names of all kinds as I look for adventures, especially old road names and location names. Have hundreds of them listed. Some are:
Big Lickinghole Creek...Nannie Frannie Pimento...Blind Preacher Rd....Devil 3 Jump Rd...Greasy Ridge...J. Leroy Charity...Molasses Run Creek...Merry Cat Rd...Mt. Eccentric...Owl Trap Farm...Polecat Creek Meadow...Summerduck...Turkey Egg Rd...Turkey Trot Rd...Toe Ink...Clyde S. Horney...Whiskey Creek...White Goose Farm...Otis P. Corncobb...Buzzard Hollow...Oliver Buttsburger...Honey Flats...Sucky Lawrence...Mouse House...Toad Road...Bearfence Mt...Gospel Chicken House Church...Hip Pocket National Bank...Gobbler's Knob...Crissy Crump...Thistlethrow Ridge...Apple Pie Ridge Rd...Hard Scrabble Mt...Blue Tick Hound...John W. Cowheard...Old Grain Rd...Barleigh Lane...Thatchmore Cottage...and Stingy Hollow.
I love discovering and uncovering those new old names and places, especially my fave Icy Bell Liptrap and Stingy Hollow up in the Shenandoah Valley!...honest to gosh, there was an Icy Bell and there is a Stingy Hollow. Hey, got a neat name or place?...please share...squire
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