Download or read book Oddball Wisconsin written by Jerome Pohlen and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and even weirder, this new edition boasts more than 400 unique destinations for tourists looking for attractions off the beaten path. Bizarre locations and landmarks include Chainsaw Gordy’s Garden of Saws, Smokey Bear’s head, the World’s Largest Soup Kettle, the Toilet Bowl Parade, and the world’s only upside-down White House. This book offers fascinating and little-known historical tidbits and answers burning questions such as Where was Liberace born? What is a hodag, and how do you catch one? Who invented the hamburger? and Will a Polka Hall of Fame ever be built? This is the real guide to Wisconsin, birthplace of the snowmobile, the typewriter, and the ice cream sundae. The address, phone number, hours, cost, directions, and website of each oddity accompany its description.
Download or read book Weird Wisconsin written by Linda S. Godfrey and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wisconsin Curiosities written by Michael Feldman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular public radio show host Michael Feldman and coauthor Diana Cook introduce Wisconsin's weirdest, wackiest, and most outrageous people, places, and things including a man who owes his life to a foam rubber cheesehead, a worm that plays basketball, and the best place to savor chicken in a hubcap.
Download or read book Oddball Indiana written by Jerome Pohlen and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indiana often calls itself the Crossroads of the Nation. It's not also perhaps the very nexus of US weirdness. Armed with Oddball Indiana, you'll soon discover the strange underbelly of the Hoosier State, from brain sandwiches to square donuts. Indiana has monuments to Michael Jackson, the comic strip character Joe Palooka, and the World's Largest Egg. It's where Alka-Seltzer and Wonder Bread were invented, where A Christmas Story actually took place, and where the good but angry citizens of Plainfield conspired to dump President Martin Van Buren in a mud puddle. Along with humorous histories and offbeat observations, Oddball Indiana provides addresses, websites, hours, fees, and driving directions for each of its 350+ entries.
Download or read book Oddball Illinois written by Jerome Pohlen and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this updated edition, it's plain to see that the state of Illinois has only gotten weirder. Where there was once just a single Popeye statue in downstate Chester, today the town has monuments to Olive Oyl, Swee' Pea, Bluto, the Sea Hag, and more. The creepy Piasa Bird petroglyph on the bluff in Alton now has a roadside pullout with picnic tables, and the two-story outhouse in Gays has a new contemplative garden. With almost twice as many destinations as its predecessor, this edition boasts detailed information on each site—address, phone number, website, hours, entry fees, and driving directions—as well as maps, photos, and a wealth of regional history in the descriptions. Some new sites include Henry's Rabbit Ranch, the World's First Jungle Gym, Ahlgrim Acres (a miniature golf course at a funeral home), the Leather Archives and Museum, General Santa Ana's two wooden legs, the World's Largest Sock Monkey, the Friendship Shoe Fence, a truck stop with a marionette show, and a coin-operated fire-breathing dragon. There is more between Chicago and St. Louis than cornfields and plenty of fascinating places in the Windy City that aren't on Michigan Avenue, and here is a chance to see these underappreciated sites throughout the state.
Download or read book Wisconsin written by Michael Feldman and published by Falcon Guides. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular public radio show host Michael Feldman and coauthor Diana Cook introduce Wisconsin's weirdest, wackiest, and most outrageous people, places, and things including a man who owes his life to a foam rubber cheesehead, a worm that plays basketball, and the best place to savor chicken in a hubcap.
Download or read book Oddball written by Sarah Andersen and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest Sarah's Scribbles collection from New York Times bestselling author and Goodreads Choice award winner Sarah Andersen. The fourth book in the enormously popular graphic novel series, the latest collection of Sarah's Scribbles comics explores the evils of procrastination, the trials of the creative process, the cuteness of kittens, and the beauty of not caring about your appearance as much as you did when you were younger. When it comes to humorous illustrations of the awkwardness and hilarity of millennial life, Sarah's Scribbles is without peer.
Download or read book Weird Michigan written by Linda S. Godfrey and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores ghosts and haunted places, local legends, cursed roads, crazy characters, and unusual roadside attractions found in Michigan.
Download or read book A Small Earnest Question written by J.F. Riordan and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards! It's spring on Washington Island. Despite her concerns about Roger's desire to bartend, Elisabeth is eager to plan a grand opening for their newly remodeled hotel, but she quickly realizes that she may also need to make accommodations for Roger's proposed goat yoga classes. Bored and lonely, Oliver Robert joins bartender Eddie in forming a great books club at Nelsen's, and Emily Martin, determined to make her mark on the community, forms a new Committee of the Concerned. When Emily decides that the Island needs a literary festival, complete with a famous author, she imprudently seeks out a notorious celebrity, hoping, as always, to enhance her own prestige. Real estate agent Marcie Landmeier confides that an unknown someone is buying up the Island's shoreline, newly-appointed Fire Chief Jim Freeberg contends with a string of suspicious fires, and Pali and Ben have a spiritual encounter that will change them both. Meanwhile, drawn once more into local controversy, and awash in suspicion herself, Fiona Campbell must determine the answers to questions that will affect her future, and the future of the entire Island. A Small Earnest Question is Book Four in the award-winning North of the Tension Line series, set on a remote island in the Great Lakes. Called a modern-day Jane Austen, author J.F. Riordan creates wry, engaging tales and vivid characters that celebrate the beauty and mysteries of everyday life.
Download or read book Eccentric America written by Jan Friedman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to all things wacky, weird, curious, and bizarre in the U.S.A., featuring approximately 1,000 festivals, attractions, tours, shopping, restaurants, hotels, and eccentric environments. photos. 51 maps.
Download or read book Oddball Colorado written by Jerome Pohlen and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monuments to all that is bizarre are contained in this guide, with location, websites, open hours, cost, and directions included. Pohlen is ecumenical in his tastes, including really kitschy tourist traps as well as bizarre oddities such as the barber shop of a would-be messiah. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Download or read book Sugarless written by James Magruder and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things look bad for Rick Lahrem, a high school sophomore in a cookie-cutter Chicago suburb in 1976. His mother’s second husband is a licensed psychologist who eats like an ape, his stepsister is a stoner slut, and his father is engaged to a Southern belle. Rick’s only solace is his growing collection of original Broadway-cast LPs, bought on the sly at Wax Trax. After he brings two girls in speech class to tears by reading a story aloud, Rick is coaxed onto the interscholastic forensics team to perform an eight-minute dramatic interpretation of The Boys in the Band, the controversial sixties play about homosexuality. Unexpectedly successful at this oddball event, Rick begins winning tournaments and making friends with his teammates. Rick also discovers the joys of sex—with a speech coach from a rival school—just as his mother, reacting to a deteriorating home environment, makes an unnerving commitment to Christ. The newly confident Rick assumes this too shall pass—until the combined forces of family, sex, and faith threaten to undo him at the state meet in Peoria. James Magruder’s Sugarless offers a ruefully entertaining take on the simultaneous struggles of coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming-to-Jesus. A selection of InsightOut Book Club Finalist, Lambda Book Award for Gay Debut Fiction, Lambda Literary Foundation Finalist, TLA Gaybie Award for Best Gay Fiction Semi-finalist, James Branch Cabell First Novelist Award, Virginia Commonwealth University Semi-finalist, William Saroyan International Prize For Writing, Stanford University
Download or read book America Bizarro written by Nelson Taylor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-08-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get lost trying to find the Middle of Nowhere Festival (Nebraska) or fling manure at the World Cow Chip Throwing Contest in Beaver, Oklahoma! This guide features state-by-state listings of nearly every unusual convention, festival, and contest held in the USA. 50 photos.
Download or read book Great Lakes and Midwest Catalog written by Partners Book Distributing and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wisconsin Crosswords written by Dale Ratermann and published by . This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Test your knowledge of the state known for beer and cheeseheads and learn a few new things with this fun collection of puzzles and trivia about Wisconsin. Stuffed with fun facts, this book is an essential addition to any Wisconsin trivia lover's library or for those who want to learn more about his beautiful and historic state. Wisconsin Crosswords also includes word searches appropriate for readers of all ages. Puzzle topics include: ? Wisconsin Sports ? Wisconsin State Parks ? Historic Wisconsin ? Famous Wisconsin Residents ? And much, much more!
Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wisconsin Road Guide to Haunted Locations written by Chad Lewis and published by Unexplained Research LLC. This book was released on 2004 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your road guide for finding haunted bars, bridges, campgrounds, cemeteries, churches, fire stations, rocks, roads, schoolhouses, and much, much more.
