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

by Michael Feldman, Diana Cook

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762748181
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/14/2009
Series:	Curiosities Series
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	662,823
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Michael Feldman is the host of the popular public radio talk show "Whad'Ya Know?" that has been on the air since 1985 and is now heard in 310 markets worldwide. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Diana Cook is a researcher for "Whad'Ya Know?" and a contributor to The Wisconsin Almanac. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Editorial Reviews

Michael Feldman’s incisive look at Badger State oddities finally allows Wisconsin to emerge from the long shadow of beer, cheese, sausage, and more beer.”
—Joe Queenan, humorist and author of Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon

From the Publisher

Is there some sort of a connection between people living in towns with funny names and the weird hobbies they usually have? Of course, everyone in this reviewer's hometown of Lompoc is MENSA material, but this book on oddballs in Wisconsin seems to prove the point. Would the folks in Milwaukee be as proud of a dinky little motel (where the Gideon Bibles were "born") as are the people in tiny Boscobel? Could the "meadow muffin" be as celebrated in Madison as it is during Prairie du Sac's Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw? Is there an Alien Museum, featuring a two-headed calf, in Oshkosh as there is in Poynette? America's strength has always seemed to lie in its eccentrics and dreamers, and Feldman has done a great job in chronicling the slightly off-center residents of the Badger State. All Midwestern public libraries should carry a copy of this lighthearted, easy-to-read paean to Wisconsin weirdos; others may buy it just to offer their readers a good chuckle.--Joseph L. Carlson, Lompoc P.L., CA Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

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