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Thursday, July 6. 2006

Mark Monmonier on NPR

Our local NRP show, Here and Now, with Robin Young (who in my house rates as one of serveral NRP folks in the #2 spot to Terry Gross as an interviewer) spoke with Syracuse geographer Mark Monmonier about his new book, From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow, about place names. Monmonier is his usual charming and amusing self even as he notes oddities in the U.S. rules about place names. (Warning: the language may not be appropriate for all.)

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That has to be one of the funniest NPR interviews I have ever heard.
#1 DivineMsn on 2006-07-07 09:45 (Reply)
An excerpt from From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame by Mark Monmonier is available on the University of Chicago Press website. Read the whole story of places like Whorehouse Meadow, Brassiere Hills, and the town of Dildo: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/534650.html
#2 Dean Blobaum on 2006-07-13 08:37 (Reply)

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