On 12/5/06 5:24 PM, in article
, "Wolfgang"
wrote:


William Claspy wrote:
On 12/5/06 1:12 PM, in article ,
"Wolfgang" wrote:

FISHIN' JIMMY
By Annie Trumbull Slosson

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902
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PART I

It was on the margin of Pond Brook, just back of Uncle Eben's that I first
saw Fishin' Jimmy. It was early June, and we were again at Franconia, that
peaceful little village among the northern hills.

snip

And not a gnat's hair from where we were hiking in August. In fact we were
on the Fishin' Jimmy trail, briefly.

In the process of preparing this text I had occasion to google Fishin'
Jimmy. The first hit was a map of the trail and some associated trip
report or something. Led me to wonder whether it was named in honor of
the story, or the story is a more or less true account of a real life
individual. If only we knew of a good research librarian!

Troll!

I think we have to believe the author. As well as Google, I checked a
database of U.S. archive collections and the Dictionary of National
Biography, and found no entry for Whitcher.

I have requested a dictionary of New Hampshire place names from another
library and will report on what I find.

Completely unscholarly, but the AMC says Fishin' Jimmy was a real guy:

http://www.outdoors.org/recreation/t...th-kinsman.cfm

You knew you'd get a rise out of that cast, didn'tcha?

:-)

B