[Mccoypottery-talk] my profuse apology to the list

[M. Caudill]

Jennifer,
Pike can refer to a person's name, a type of fish, or in many place names, a
long pole, like a very long spear.  If you've ever seen "Braveheart," the
Scots used pikes to stop the English cavalry charge.  If that was your job
in the army, you eventually wound up with that as your surname - Pike, like
Smith or Potter or Bowman.

When roads were first built in the colonies, if you built the road under
contract, you had the right to charge a toll to the travelers.  To keep
people from sneaking by, you put a long pole (a pike) across the road,
mounted so you could turn it out of the way when the toll was paid.  That
was the beginning of our "turnpike" system, often shortened to just "pike."

Hope this helps. On Sundays, from 1:00-3:30, I do a call-in trivia/music
show on a local radio station as "Colonel O'Lernin."  If anyone is
interested in trivia, you can hear it live on the internet by going to
www.appalshop.org/wmmt and clicking on "Web Broadcast."
Mike in KY

> What in the world is a "PIKE".  There's pike this and pike that all over
the
> place and the locals all say they have no clue!<G>
> I live in the most small town to be named Baltimore probably in the USA.
> But we always joke about Coon Path Road when going to Lancaster.  We want
to
> know when the Coons are having their get together and where it will be
along
> the Coon Path?  And every time we see a dead coon we realize that they
just
> didn't find Coonpath to keep them going to wherever it is coons go to
> congregate.....<VBG>
>
> Jennifer Smith
> Capriherb Farm
> Baltimore, Ohio
>
>
>
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