Kansas Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

by Pam Grout

Overview

Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things
the Sunflower State has to offer! Whether you’re a born-and-raised Kansan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Kansas Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Pam Grout takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of the Sunflower State.
Visit the Museum of the World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things—and get your own largest ball starter kit.
Meet more chainsaw-wielding, glow-in-the-dark-scrap-metal-zoo-building, grapefruit-peel-sculpting, papier-mâché-mixing, porcelain-pig-painting grassroots artists than you can shake a stick at!
Get a load of Big Brutus, a sixteen-story coal shovel that has become a popular tourist attraction; and discover the thrill of an indoor hurricane—it’ll blow you away.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762765799
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/15/2010
Series:	Curiosities Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Pam Grout is the author of thirteen books, including Globe Pequot's own  Colorado Curiosities and Girlfriend Getaways. She lives with her daughter and together, they have traveled to quirky sites in seven countries and thirty-one states.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vi
	About the Author	vi
	Introduction	vii
	More Powerful than a Locomotive, More Liberal than California	xi
	Northeast	1
	Lawrence	43
	Southeast	73
	South Central	113
	North Central	153
	Northwest	193
	Southwest	231
	Index	268