{"id":16637,"date":"2016-02-21T08:02:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T13:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=16637"},"modified":"2022-02-21T06:32:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T11:32:47","slug":"sawtooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/sawtooth\/","title":{"rendered":"Sawtooth, Rhode Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twelve Mile Circle received a handful of mysterious search queries focusing on the word &#8220;sawtooth&#8221; recently. One specifically referenced a location called Sawtooth Point, Rhode Island. I assumed they all derived from a common origin. Coincidentally or not, they landed on the same day from the same metropolitan area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One shouldn&#8217;t get too alarmed. Usage statistics can&#8217;t identify individual readers by name even if a lot of information does get recorded whenever someone lands on a website. I do enjoy reviewing aggregated data especially <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=12712\">searches dropped directly onto 12MC<\/a>. Sometimes they pique my curiosity, as with the aforementioned Sawtooth Point. Often I learn a thing or two in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopefully my curiosity will also satisfy the needs of our anonymous reader who placed the notion in my head. Of course that assumes he or she ever returns, which I doubt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"about-that-sawtooth-point\">About That Sawtooth Point<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/andreweason\/161775765\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/75\/161775765_ed00a4d78a_b.jpg\" alt=\"Sawtooth. Photo by aesop; (CC BY-SA 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Sawtooth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Spoiler alert, I quickly discovered that Sawtooth Point was a fictional location. It simply doesn&#8217;t exist. Rather it was the setting for a novel written by John Casey in 2010 titled &#8220;Compass Rose.&#8221; I haven&#8217;t read it although it sounded interesting. It seemed more character focused than action driven, and of course I liked the title. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/07\/books\/review\/Browning-t.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times Sunday Review<\/a> gave it favorable marks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;&#8230; the story of a handful of people who live in a small coastal community in Rhode Island\u2019s South County. Yet this bit of a world is complete unto itself, with its own force fields, its own variations of true north, its own ways of tilting into alignment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Rhode Island Monthly offered some additional background in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rimonthly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Casey Comes Back to South County<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;John Casey finished writing Spartina in 1986, but his characters weren\u2019t done with him. The novel went on to win the National Book Award, Casey went on to other books &#8212; but he never stopped writing about his fictional South County world. Twenty years later, the highly anticipated sequel, Compass Rose, brings it all back. &#8216;I was thinking the next time I\u2019m in Rhode Island, I\u2019ll go look at that big old white house on Sawtooth Point,&#8217; Casey says. &#8216;Then I remember that I made it up&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>That certainly addressed the question with certainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"but-did-it-really-exist\">But Did It Really Exist?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The author himself stated unambiguously that Sawtooth Point didn&#8217;t exist except in his fertile imagination. Or did it? Did the &#8220;made it up&#8221; refer to the old white house or to Sawtooth Point itself? Could there still be an actual Sawtooth Point? The designation didn&#8217;t appear in the Geographic Names Information System. In fact no place anywhere in Rhode Island had any variant of sawtooth in its name. That only meant that no <em>formally<\/em> designated Sawtooth Point existed in Rhode Island. It could still exist off-the-books, I figured. Maybe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wait a minute, though. I celebrated capturing the final two counties on my trip through the area <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=15968\">last May<\/a> to complete my <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=23480\">Rhode Island county counting<\/a> map. I didn&#8217;t remember any South County. Rhode Island had only five counties: Bristol; Kent; Newport; Providence and Washington. There wasn&#8217;t a Sawtooth Point and there wasn&#8217;t a South County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"south-county\">South County<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/heartlover1717\/5968376141\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/6133\/5968376141_013c2e8615_o.jpg\" alt=\"South County Balloon Festival 2011. Photo by Heartlover1717; (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)\" width=\"584\" height=\"415\"\/><\/a><figcaption>South County Balloon Festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By an odd twist of fate, I&#8217;d received an email message from reader &#8220;Dave&#8221; just a few days before I noticed the Sawtooth Point queries. He recounted a dinnertime conversation where his family discussed county names. That made me jealous because I couldn&#8217;t imagine a geography-based conversation happening anywhere around <em>my<\/em> dinner table. However, that was really besides the point. Their discussion turned to the counties of Rhode Island, and the notion that Washington County (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/TSy6nSnCnixZCZRK8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>) was rarely referenced in that manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Locals called it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcountyri.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South County<\/a>. I suppose it related to its geographic placement within the State. Nevertheless I couldn&#8217;t find any concrete reason why Washington County wasn&#8217;t a good enough name. Maybe it was because Rhode Island disestablished its county structure except for various statistical and judicial purposes in 1846. Maybe it simply didn&#8217;t matter anymore. Washington County, South County, whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dave had wondered whether this was a unique situation, a county with a largely ignored official name and a frequently referenced nickname. I didn&#8217;t know of any other situation like that, however, before declaring it unique I thought it might be best to consult the all-knowing 12MC audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suppose I also needed to add two more titles, Spartina and Compass Rose, to the long list of books I should probably read someday. And I still didn&#8217;t know if there was an actual Sawtooth Point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve Mile Circle received a handful of mysterious search queries focusing on the word &#8220;sawtooth&#8221; recently. One specifically referenced a location called Sawtooth Point, Rhode Island. I assumed they all derived from a common origin. Coincidentally or not, they landed on the same day from the same metropolitan area. One shouldn&#8217;t get too alarmed. 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