By Kelly Morgan,Staff Writer

GREENWOOD – “Zipadee Do Da Lane” will be the next name to join a long list of catchy road titles in town.

On March 15, Loretta and Paul Mikols were given the go-ahead by the Greenwood Board of Selectmen to assign the name to their driveway off Greenwood Road.

“I do not have a Disney fetish,” Loretta Mikols said with a laugh Wednesday.

Although she admitted she enjoys old Disney movies, Mikols said “Zipadee Do Da Lane” was carefully spelled differently than “Zippity Do Dah,” the title of a song popularized by the now-controversial Disney film, “Song of the South.”

The new road name, Mikols said, is intended to evoke the experience of navigating her steep drive on an icy or snowy winter day. “I’ve taken quite a few shortcuts to the bottom,” she said, laughing again.

Mikols said she and her husband had to name the driveway under E-911 regulations because of a number of outbuildings on their property.

Road foreman Alan Seames said Wednesday the new road name is not too unusual. Greenwood is known for names like “Bullwinkle,” “Bear Lane” and “Alcohol Mary Road.”

The question will be whether Seames can keep the “Zipadee Do Da Lane” sign up. He plans to erect it shortly after the snow melts. “It depends on how tall a post I put it on,” he joked.

Keeping similar signs on roads closer to the Mt. Abram Resort has been an ongoing challenge.

“Alcohol Mary Road” has been around as long as Seames can remember, he said, and the sign has been missing almost as long. Determined sign grabbers have gone so far as to cut down a tree to get it. One year, Seames said, he stuck the sign post in a bucket, filled the bucket with cement, and buried the weighty anchor under 3 feet of earth. “I think we might have had it up for three weeks,” he chuckled.

Greenwood now uses fiberglass signs and does its own lettering, so it costs about $7 for a sign, Seames said. A post and bracket for a sign costs $15.

Town Clerk Angela Lovejoy said Mikols at the March 15 selectmen meeting volunteered to watch over her new sign.

Mikols said she didn’t know how far she would go to protect the sign. For starters, she said with a grin, “we’re just going to grease the pole up nicely and see what happens.”