Miss Ginny: How Can A Town Be Nameless?

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How can a town be nameless? You wouldn’t be able to say I am from ___. Because you would have no idea how to say where you were from except Tennessee. How does something like that happen. In the town of Nameless, Tennessee is a clear example of what happens when you don’t name a town. It was a small town in the middle of nowhere that most people didn’t know about or new was even there. Nameless, Tennessee was a town in the middle of no where. No one new who discovered the town. When the post office was created they had to come up with a name. The town had a meeting to come up with a name for the town. “Some wanted patriotic names, some names from nature, one man recommended in all seriousness his own name.” (p. 174, Nameless, Tennessee). During the meeting and none of the townspeople could agree on a name,“Some wanted patriotic names, some names from nature, one man recommended in all seriousness his own name.” Since they couldn’t agree on a name they all agreed to not name it. So its name by default became Nameless, Tennessee. …show more content…

“You think Nameless is a funny name,” Miss Ginny said. “I see it plain in your eyes. Well, you take yourself up north a piece to Difficult or Defeated or Shake Rag. Now them are silly names.” Its is true of all the names out there for towns, nameless doesn’t seem to be that low on the list of weird

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