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3 unusual facts about Pippa Passes


Arthur Marvin

He shot 418 films between 1897 and 1911, including The Adventures of Dollie (1908), the directorial debut of D. W. Griffith, as well as other early Griffith shorts such as Pippa Passes in 1909.

Caney Creek

Pippa Passes, Kentucky, a city along the creek known to its inhabitants as "Caney Creek"

Pippa Passes, Kentucky

A donation from the Browning Society led to the post office's being named after Robert Browning's Pippa Passes, a verse drama which coined the phrase "God's in His heaven, all's right with the world".



see also

Alice Lloyd

Alice Lloyd College, a liberal arts college in Pippa Passes, Kentucky, a small Appalachian community