Download or read book MARYLAND CURIOSITIES QUIRKY CHARACTERS written by Allison Blake and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This laugh-out-loud guide will introduce readers to the offbeat people, places, and events of the Old Line State.
Download or read book Maryland Curiosities written by Allison Blake and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This laugh-out-loud guide will introduce readers to the offbeat people, places, and events of the Old Line State.
Download or read book Nebraska Curiosities written by Rick Yoder and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover Nebraska’s curious underside with this oddly entertaining little guide! Travelers with a taste for the bizarre, tacky, and hilarious can visit the Avoca Quack-Off, learn about the inland Linoma Lighthouse, view a Roller Skating Museum, and pay a visit to the world’s largest covered wagon. Only true Cornhuskers could capture the essence of these and other authentic Nebraska phenomena, and Rick Yoder and David Harding do their home state proud.
Download or read book Iowa Curiosities written by Eric Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Hawkeye State has to offer!
Download or read book Weird Maryland written by Matthew Lake and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GET WEIRD! “Best Travel Series of The Year 2006”—Booklist What’s weird around here? Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman asked themselves this question for years. And it’s precisely this offbeat sense of curiosity that led the duo to create Weird N.J. and the successful series that followed. The NOT shockingly result? EveryWeirdbook has become a best seller in its region! ((Series Sales Points)) This best-selling series has sold more than one million copies…and counting Thirty volumes of the Weird series have been published to great success since Weird New Jersey's 2003 debut
Download or read book Virginia Curiosities written by Sharon Cavileer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive collection of the Old Dominion's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things is filled with quirky photographs throughout and maps for each region. Virginia Curiosities includes humorous state facts and amusing stories and serves as a combination almanac, off-the-wall travel guide, and wacky news gazette.
Download or read book State Oddities written by Nancy Hendricks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State Oddities takes a different kind of look at the American nation, spotlighting the fun foibles, peculiarities, and twists in each of the 50 states that are (mostly) united under the Stars and Stripes. State Oddities is a fascinating trip through the 50 states for students studying America, teachers planning classroom activities, and general readers who will enjoy an eye-opening journey through the nation's fun side. It offers a compelling look at the character of America through the individuality of 50 very distinct states that together form the USA. This book paints a picture of the broad sweep of the American story, offering a gateway to the country as it developed into one nation filled with individual states that can be remarkably different from each other, yet unified under such national symbols as the American flag and "The Star-Spangled Banner." The author of State Oddities has become known as a master of "painless history," telling America's story in a sparkling style along with the historian's eye for fascinating detail. On the book's cross-country journey, the reader will find that it differs from other works by taking a fresh look at stories we think we know.
Download or read book Louisiana Curiosities written by Bonnye Stuart and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Pelican State has to offer! Whether you’re a born-and-raised Louisianan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Louisiana Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Louisiana native Bonnye Stuart takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sites in the Pelican State. Track down some serious fun, from watching lawnmower racing and petting live alligators to attending a prison rodeo and dancing at a powwow. Feast your way through festivals that celebrate the state’s cultural diversity and local crops, from fiery Cajun gumbo to sweet mayhaw jelly—and stop in at the local wineries and microbreweries to quench your thirst. Learn about the darker side of Louisiana as you tour haunted plantations, mysterious mansions, and spooky cemeteries.
Download or read book Alabama Curiosities written by Andy Duncan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover Alabama's curious underside with this oddly entertaining little guide! Travelers with a taste for the bizarre, tacky, and hilarious can visit the Coon Dog Cemetery, learn about the cattle-mutilation mystery, view the world's largest boll weevil, and sip Kudzu Tea. Only a true Southerner could capture the essence of these and other authentic Alabama phenomena, and Andy Duncan does his home state proud.
Download or read book West Virginia Curiosities written by Rick Steelhammer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laugh your way through the pages of West VirginiaCuriosities, your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Mountain State has to offer!
Download or read book Indiana Curiosities written by Dick Wolfsie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Hoosier State has to offer!
Download or read book Ohio Curiosities written by Sandra Gurvis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive collection of Ohio's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for Ohio residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.
Download or read book Vermont Curiosities written by Robert Wilson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun, accessible read for travelers and non travelers alike Vermont Curiosities is part zany Vermont guidebook and part Who's Who of unusual and unsung heroes, this compendium of the state's quirks and characters will amuse Vermont residents and visitors alike.
Download or read book Arizona Curiosities written by Sam Lowe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saguaro cacti, desert landscapes, and the Grand Canyon may stand out as prominent Arizona features, but this scorching state is also home to bizarre places, personalities, events, and phenomena. These unique and quirky aspects are humorously displayed in Arizona Curiosities, a cross between a wacky news gazette, an almanac, and a humorous travel guide.
Download or read book Colorado Curiosities written by Pam Grout and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-01-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Centennial State has to offer!
Download or read book New Hampshire Curiosities written by Eric Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places,and things the Granite State has to offer. Whether you’re a born-and-raised New Hampshirite, a recent transplant, or just passing through, New Hampshire Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Eric Jones takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of the Granite State. Meet the state’s Official Gull Harasser (Uh-huh, it’s a government job); a man who made 2,850 consecutive ascents of Mount Monadnock; and Dean Kamen, New Hampshire’s very own twenty-first-century Thomas Edison. Lament the passing of the state-sponsored Roadkill Auction, where the frozen carcasses of everything from bobcat to black bear were available to the highest bidder—until a rabies outbreak put an end to this time-honored tradition. Visit the Exeter UFO Festival—an annual event in the town that saw one of the most impressive UFO sightings on record, in September 1965—and the 1804 grave of a soldier’s amputated leg.
Download or read book New Jersey Curiosities written by Peter Genovese and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you’re a born-and-raised New Jerseyan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, New Jersey Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Peter Genovese takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of theGarden State. Learn the proper way to cook a garbage can turkey, get the skinny on the real birthplace of baseball, and hear the story of Waving Willie, New Jersey’s friendliestroadside character. Meet the undisputed Weenie Queen of Garfield; a Hickory Dickory Dock clock–covering car artist; and a gas station-turned-restaurant-owning undertaker. Feel the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat at the New Jersey Cockroach Derby, and relive the OK Corral shoot-out and shoot cap guns at bad guys in Wild West City.
