List of places named after Joyce Kilmer

This is a list of places which are located all around the world named or renamed in honor of American poet, writer and literary critic, Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918).

Places

Illinois

Michigan

  • Joyce Kilmer Road in Roscommon, Michigan. This road ends at a Branch of the very famous Au Sable River. Plenty of 'Trees' too!

Minnesota

  • Joyce Kilmer Memorial Fireplace (built 1936) in Como Park in St. Paul, MN [1] Kilmer was honored by St. Paul Parks Superintendent W. Lamont Kauffman, who was a charter member of the Joyce Kilmer post of the American Legion.

New Jersey

New York

North Carolina

Schools

Miscellaneous

  • The Philolexian Society of Columbia University, a collegiate literary society of which Kilmer was vice president, holds the annual Alfred Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest in his honor.[9]
  • Nobody's Inn, a bar and grill at 150 Franklin Turnpike in Mahwah (next to the Erie-Lackawanna railroad tracks about 0.7 miles from the border of Suffern, New York), which closed in 2002, was widely believed to occupy the house that inspired Kilmer's poem, "The House with Nobody In It." The poem begins, "Whenever I walk to Suffern along the Erie track / I go by a poor old farmhouse with its shingles broken and black."
  • The Joyce Kilmer Memorial Tree, located in New York City's Central Park near Center Drive and 67th Street.[10][11]

References

  1. Xiong, Chao. "At Como Park, a hearth-warming". Newspaper. Star Tribune, Minneapolis, MN. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2011.
  2. Mappen, Marc. The Encyclopedia of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2004), 117.
  3. Kilmer Rest Area - New Jersey Turnpike Archived 2008-08-01 at the Wayback Machine published by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (no further authorship information available). Retrieved January 13, 2007.
  4. Brewer, Alberta, and Brewer, Carson. Valley So Wild. (Knoxville: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1975), 350-351.
  5. Joyce Kilmer Elementary School Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Joyce Kilmer Elementary School
  7. Joyce Kilmer Elementary School
  8. Joyce Kilmer K-8 School
  9. The Philolexian Society Archived 2012-07-17 at the Wayback Machine at the Philolexian Foundation website. Published by the Philolexian Foundation (no further authorship information available). Retrieved 13 January 2007.
  10. " Natural History/The Journal of the American Museum. 19. 1919.
  11. XIX, 1919, pp. 746-47.
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