Date:  Sun, 4 Jan 1998 08:59:24 -0500
From:  Laurence Horn <laurence.horn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Podunk

This is to confirm the assertion in the initial post:
>In response to Frank Abate's posting of evidence regarding Podunk-qua-place
>name:
>|
>| Let me weigh in with some evidence on Podunk:
>|...
>| In CT, aside from a P River, there is a P Pond, and I have first-hand
>| knowledge of a residential part of a shoreline town, Guilford (S of
>| Hartford about 35 miles), which uses this name. There is a P Road in
>| Guilford.
>
>Could you give an indication of where in Guilford? My Champion map of New
>Haven County (c. 10 years old) doesn't list Podunk Road (or any other name
>containing Podunk) in its index, which does list some *very* minimal looking
>roads in Guilford.
>
>Alice Faber

MY map (New Haven Citimap available from the AAA) has Podunk Road traveling
north-south (and vice versa) in the eastern reaches of Guilford, extending
for c. 2 1/2 miles just this side of Madison (into which it wanders at its
far northern point). It doesn't make it as far south as I-95 or as far
north as Route 80, but that's the area. I take the nonce spelling as
"Poduck" to be a scribal error on the part of the mapmaker.

--Larry