The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

Anecdote

A professor of math at Peabody is well-known for getting off on "the wrong rabbit path" when doing a proof in math. Often times these rabbit paths will take him the entire period to discover that they are leading him nowhere and he must start all over.

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; CORNERSVILLE