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Some Pike County Place Names: Leonard Roberts' Contributions To The Kentucky Place Name Survey

Some Pike County Place Names: Leonard Roberts' Contributions To The Kentucky Place Name Survey Some Pike County Place Names: Leonard Roberts' Contributions To The Kentucky Place Name Survey Compiled and Edited by Robert M. Rennick INTRODUCTION editor/publisher are well known and have been described at some length by others, While Leonard Roberts' contributions as a folklorist, teacher, storyteller, and his interest in the place names of Pike County and his involvement with the Kentucky Place Name Survey may still be unfamiliar to most of his colleagues and admirers. The Survey was initiated in 1971 to systematically investigate the more than 100,000 named places and features in Kentucky as part of the then beginning effort country. to compile and analyze data on an estimated six million place names in the entire named places, Professor Roberts undertook, in 1971, to supply information to the Sharing the goal of a county-by-county inventory and analysis of Kentucky's Survey on the Pike County sample in Thomas Field's Guide to Kentucky Place Names (published in 1961 by the Kentucky Geological Survey, Lexington, Ken- tucky). To this end, he encouraged the county residents among his Pikeville College folklore students to interview their neighbors and relatives for recollections of the places and features of their communities, especially for accounts of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Some Pike County Place Names: Leonard Roberts' Contributions To The Kentucky Place Name Survey

Rennick, Robert M.
Appalachian Review , Volume 15 (2) – Jan 8, 1987
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Some Pike County Place Names: Leonard Roberts' Contributions To The Kentucky Place Name Survey Compiled and Edited by Robert M. Rennick INTRODUCTION editor/publisher are well known and have been described at some length by others, While Leonard Roberts' contributions as a folklorist, teacher, storyteller, and his interest in the place names of Pike County and his involvement with the Kentucky Place Name Survey may still be unfamiliar to most of his colleagues and admirers. The Survey was initiated in 1971 to systematically investigate the more than 100,000 named places and features in Kentucky as part of the then beginning effort country. to compile and analyze data on an estimated six million place names in the entire named places, Professor Roberts undertook, in 1971, to supply information to the Sharing the goal of a county-by-county inventory and analysis of Kentucky's Survey on the Pike County sample in Thomas Field's Guide to Kentucky Place Names (published in 1961 by the Kentucky Geological Survey, Lexington, Ken- tucky). To this end, he encouraged the county residents among his Pikeville College folklore students to interview their neighbors and relatives for recollections of the places and features of their communities, especially for accounts of

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Published: Jan 8, 1987

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