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2 unusual facts about Athol


Athol, New Zealand

It seems probable it was named after Atholl in Perthshire, Scotland and this might be because the Superintendent of Southland Province at the time of the survey, Dr. James Menzies, came from there.

Flyboys: A True Story of Courage

The names of Flyboys were Jimmy Dye from Mount Ephraim, New Jersey, Floyd Hall from Sedalia, Missouri, Marve Mershon from Los Angeles, California, Warren Earl Vaughn from Childress, Texas, Dick Woellhof from Clay Center, Kansas Grady York from Jacksonville, Florida, Glenn Frazier from Athol, Kansas, and the Unidentified Airman, who was revealed to Bradley as Warren Hindenlang of Foxboro, Massachusetts after the publication of the hardcover edition.


Athol Springs, New York

Athol Springs is the birthplace of retired NFL quarterback Jim Kubiak.

Blair Athol, New Brunswick

Blair Athol is a neighbourhood in Balmoral, Restigouche County, New Brunswick, Canada.

Blair Athol, South Australia

Gepps Cross Senior School is the only secondary school in Blair Athol and is partners with Enfield High School.

Brayden McNabb

He attended Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, a prep school in Wilcox, Saskatchewan, where he played alongside current Buffalo Sabre Tyler Myers, also a defenceman.

Marigolds in August

In 1980, the play was adapted into a film directed by Ross Devenish, with Melton played by John Kani, Athol Fugard as Paulus, and Winston Ntshona as Daan.

Millers River

Major tributaries of the Millers River are Tarbell Brook, which enters about two miles west of Winchendon Center, the Otter River, which enters in Winchendon in Otter River State Forest, and the Tully River, which enters in Athol.

Phoenix Media/Communications Group

In addition the paper owned radio station WFNX based in Lynn, MA, from 1983 until 2012 when it was sold to Clear Channel and is now dance station WEDX (the WFNX call letters are now on a station in Athol, MA).

Prince Edward County Board of Education

The district served ten municipalities, including the townships of Ameliasburgh, Athol, Hallowell, Hillier, North Marysburgh, Sophiasburg, and South Marysburgh, the villages of Bloomfield and Wellington, and Picton town.

Rosebud Theatre

We Won't Pay!, by Dario Fo (March 12 - May 15); Oliver!, by Lionel Bart, (May 28 - August 29); The Road to Mecca, by Athol Fugard (September 10 - October 23); and The Secret Garden, book by Jim Crabtree, music and lyrics by Sharon Burgett, additional lyrics by Sue Beckwith-Smith and Diana Matterson, from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

The Deemster

Gilcrist's departure on the King Orry to Liverpool is anachronistic, as most sailings from the island went to Whitehaven at the time, and the name 'King Orry' reflects that of a 19th-century Steam Packet, whereas 18th century packets were usually given names like the 'Duke of Athol'.

WCAT

WTUB, a radio station (700 AM) licensed to Orange-Athol, Massachusetts, United States, which used the call sign WCAT from 1956 to 1987 and from 1988 until 2005


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