Pippa Passes Map
Pippa Passes is a town in Knott County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 297 at the 2000 census. The city is known for Alice Lloyd College.
Pippa Passes was incorporated as a Kentucky sixth-class city on 1 July 1983, and is governed by a mayor and city council. In 2009, the mayor was Scott Cornett, who is also baseball coach for Alice Lloyd College. The police department operates as a combined unit with the college's security organization.
The name of the town is a reference to Robert Browning's verse drama, Pippa Passes, which contains the lines "God's in His heaven, all's right with the world." Pippa works in a sweatshop every day of the year but three. On rare days off, she goes about town singing her song, containing the lines above, which unknown to her influences others to act for the good. The name "Pippa Passes" is supposed to be emblematic of the influence of unconscious good on the world.
Nearby cities include Vicco, Whitesburg, Virgie, Jeff, Jenkins.