New York Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff
Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Empire State has to offer! • Visit the idyllic village whose residents "talk to dead people"; the town where monuments to its most famous daughter, Lucille Ball, abound; America's one-and-only Kazoo factory and museum; and the National Buffalo Wing Festival with its "Running of The Chickens"—i.e., people dressed as chickens.• Learn how abolitionist James Caleb Jackson invented granula, the first cold breakfast cereal; why one of Rochester's favorite eateries is known as the Home of the Garbage Plate; and why the famous negative ions of Niagara Falls feel so good.• Meet the Wonderful Wizard of Chittenango, L. Frank Baum; Panda the Seeing Eye Horse; Brooklyn's "little green invaders"; and the night watchman at the Fallow Hollow Deer Farm—a donkey!
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New York Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff
Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Empire State has to offer! • Visit the idyllic village whose residents "talk to dead people"; the town where monuments to its most famous daughter, Lucille Ball, abound; America's one-and-only Kazoo factory and museum; and the National Buffalo Wing Festival with its "Running of The Chickens"—i.e., people dressed as chickens.• Learn how abolitionist James Caleb Jackson invented granula, the first cold breakfast cereal; why one of Rochester's favorite eateries is known as the Home of the Garbage Plate; and why the famous negative ions of Niagara Falls feel so good.• Meet the Wonderful Wizard of Chittenango, L. Frank Baum; Panda the Seeing Eye Horse; Brooklyn's "little green invaders"; and the night watchman at the Fallow Hollow Deer Farm—a donkey!
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780762769841 |
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Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |
Publication date: | 01/15/2013 |
Series: | Curiosities Series |
Edition description: | Second Edition |
Pages: | 384 |
Sales rank: | 1,002,177 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d) |
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