[GCFL-discuss] [GCFL.net] Punkin Center

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This is weird.
I got Jeanene's response to Siarlys's question this morning (10:59AM)
but had not seen Siarlys's email.  His email just arrived at 5:09PM.


greenBubble



Subject: Re: [GCFL-discuss] [GCFL.net] Punkin Center

Why don't I go since I still live in AZ?  Well, Siarlys, Arizona
comprises
about 114,006 square miles and is roughly 400 miles long and about 310
miles
wide.  That's an awful big piece of land to wander around in, wouldn't
you
say?  And Punkin Center is on a small highway that leads from a busy
state
highway in the middle of the state to a podunk town called Globe out in
the
middle of nowhere.  Lake Roosevelt happens to be on that road.  Since I
no
longer go to the Lake, I don't pass by there.  Besides, Punkin Center
held
nothing much back then and still does it's best to maintain status quo.
We
didn't go down that road when I was a kid to go to the lake, because my
family wasn't a lake kind of family.  We don't fish, boat, or ski.  We
went
there to take friends and visitors to see the Roosevelt Dam.  Until
recently, you drove right across the dam!  It was exciting!
I have no idea how Punkin Center got its name.  I'll ask my dad later
today.
He's a native and knows a LOT about this land.
Jeanene


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Subject: Re: [GCFL-discuss] [GCFL.net] Punkin Center


> Well, what does "Punkin" signify? Was it NAMED by "some hick who
didn't
> know how to speak?" Or is it the the name of the family that first
moved
> there? Or is it just the name of the place for no reasons anybody
knows?
>
> There is a highway exit in Virginia called Powhattish. I am informed
by
> an elderly friend in the DC area that in her childhood, families
> travelling from homes in the north to visit relatives in the south
looked
> at the signs and pronounced it "po' white trash."
>
> Siarlys
>
> P.S. If its in Arizona, why haven't you been there since childhood?


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