Synopses & Reviews
Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Buckeye State has to offer! Whether youre a born-and-raised Ohioan, a recent transplant, or just passing through,
Ohio Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Sandra Gurvis takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of the Buckeye State.
Walk among 109 human-size ears of corn; through a collection of some 1,000 autographed hot dog buns; and over perfectly good subway tunnels that have never been used.
Belly up at the Beer Barrel Saloon of Put-in-Bay, where the 405-foot bar is the worlds longest.
Meet Juno, the transparent, talking woman; see Pretty Boy Floyds fate immortalized in a death mask;
and examine three pickled and preserved fingers.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Life-long Ohio resident Sandra Gurvis is the author of nine books and hundreds of magazine articles on travel and other topics. Her titles include Careers for Nonconformists (Marlowe, 2000), which was a selection of the Quality Paperback Book Club; The Well-Traveled Dog (TFH, 2001); America's Strangest Museums (Carol/Citadel, 1998, 1996); 30 Great Cities to Start Out In (Arco/Macmillan, 1997); Way Stations to Heaven (Arco/Macmillan, 1996); among others. A novel about campus uprisings in a small Ohio town, The Pipe Dreamers, was published by Olmstead Press in 2001.
Table of Contents
Northeast
Cleveland and Vicinity
Northwest
Central
Columbus and Vicinity
Southeast
Cincinnati and Vicinity
Southwest