Comments on: Morning Metro: Hyrdration Volunteers Needed, Ponce Book, and a Road Map

By: Rick Julian

Rick Julian — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:43:13 +0000

guessing: “sticks” > wood> trees> forest beyond the city.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:52:04 +0000

From a website quoting the Oxford English Dictionary:
The OED says: “g. the sticks: a remote, thinly populated, rural area; the backwoods; hence, in extended (freq. depreciatory) use, any area that is off the beaten track or thought to be provincial or unsophisticated; esp. in phr. in the sticks. orig. U.S.

By: smalltowngal

smalltowngal — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:22:50 +0000

Don’t know.

By: Decatur Metro

Decatur Metro — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:52:04 +0000

Anyone know the origin of the term “sticks”? STG? Parker?

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:48:33 +0000

Kind of funny to see on that 1946 map how Decatur was pretty much the eastern extent of the metro area at the time and it looks like Buckhead was probably about as far north as you could go without being “in the sticks.”