Friday, January 18, 2019

Elk City, Oklahoma

The Last Shall Be First, and The First Last:  It seems so fitting that the Roman censor who dismissed Z from the Latin alphabet had a first name that started with A: Appius Claudius Caecus. You may not have heard of him, but his legacy is legion. His A-name is applied to "the queen of the long roads," the state-of-the-art highway that led from Rome south to Brindisi. It has been called the Appian Way (Via Appia) for over two millennia. As for Zollman: probably German, and originally Bavarian. Fair Lawn Cemetery. [2018]


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