Oddball Michigan

Author : Jerome Pohlen
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781613748930

Get Book

Oddball Michigan by Jerome Pohlen Pdf

There’s more to Michigan than beautiful forests, shuttered factories, and miles and miles of stunning shoreline. Armed with this offbeat travel guide, you’ll soon discover the strange underbelly of the Great Lakes State. Michigan has monuments to fluoridation, snurfing, the designer of the Jefferson nickel, and the once-famous Mr. Chicken, as well as festivals honoring tulips, Christmas pickles, and a 38-acre fungus. It’s where you’ll find the World’s Largest Lugnut, the Nun Doll Museum, Joe’s Gizzard City, the Teenie-Weenie Pickle Barrel Cottage, Howdy Doody, and Thomas Edison’s last breath. The state also has its share of weird history—it’s where Harry Houdini perished on Halloween night in 1926, where skater Tanya Harding’s posse whacked Nancy Kerrigan, and where the Kellogg brothers invented popular breakfast cereals and less-popular yogurt enemas. Along with humorous histories and witty observations, Oddball Michigan provides addresses, websites, hours, fees, and driving directions for each of its 450 entries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1134 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : UOM:39015058973911

Get Book

Michigan Out-of-doors by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Michigan
ISBN : MINN:31951P011744159

Get Book

Michigan History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kathryn Houghton
Publisher : Adventure Publications
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781591937692

Get Book

Little Michigan by Kathryn Houghton Pdf

Michigan’s small towns have great stories. Little Michigan presents 100 towns with populations under 600. From the state’s long mining history to its Civil War heritage, each community is charming and unique. With full-color photographs, fun facts, and fascinating details about every locale, it’s almost as if you’re walking down Main Street, waving hello to folks who know all of their neighbors. Plus, these small towns have their share of surprises. Do you know which crime scene inspired the famous film Anatomy of a Murder or where you will find the infamous “Naughty Cow” statue—and how it got its nickname? The locations featured in this book range from quaint to historic, and they wonderfully represent the Great Lakes State. Little Michigan, written by lifelong resident Kathryn Houghton, is for anyone who grew up in a small town and for everyone who takes pride in being called a Michigander. They may be small towns, but they have huge character!

Author : Linda S. Godfrey
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Curiosities and wonders
ISBN : 9781402739071

Get Book

Weird Michigan by Linda S. Godfrey Pdf

Explores ghosts and haunted places, local legends, cursed roads, crazy characters, and unusual roadside attractions found in Michigan.

Author : Jerome Pohlen
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781613740354

Get Book

Oddball Illinois by Jerome Pohlen Pdf

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.

Author : Andrew I. Adler,Roger Adler,William G. Thompson
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081372380

Get Book

The Army/Navy Store Catalog by Andrew I. Adler,Roger Adler,William G. Thompson Pdf

Surveys the wide variety of United States Army and Navy surplus goods, including camping equipment, clothing, and furniture, and lists the stores where they are sold.

Author : Jerome Pohlen
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781613738528

Get Book

Oddball Indiana by Jerome Pohlen Pdf

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.

Author : Partners Book Distributing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015071443108

Get Book

Great Lakes and Midwest Catalog by Partners Book Distributing Pdf

Author : Lindsay Price
Publisher : Theatrefolk
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781926533285

Get Book

Oddball by Lindsay Price Pdf

"Are you completely normal? 100% devoid of the peculiar? Or have you embraced your oddness: odd jobs, odd socks, odd one out, odd reactions and odd boyfriends. Step right up. Step right up. Step inside to see live acts of the slightly weird and the nearly harmless. Feast your eyes on the miracle of the mildly freakish. Step inside and experience Oddball for yourself."--Publisher.

Author : Sarah Andersen
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781524876302

Get Book

Oddball by Sarah Andersen Pdf

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.

Author : Mary Hunt,Don Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015071131703

Get Book

Hunts' Highlights of Michigan by Mary Hunt,Don Hunt Pdf

Author : James Proimos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781619634435

Get Book

Apocalypse Bow Wow by James Proimos Pdf

The end has come. The world is in shambles. Everyone is gone . . . except for the dogs! Brownie and Apollo are two dogs living in bliss with a big, comfy couch to laze on. But unbeknownst to them and seemingly overnight, the world has turned to utter chaos. What they do know is their owners are MIA, they are starting to get on each other's nerves, and it's dinner time. What has happened? Who will feed them? What if their people are gone for good?! With bellies rumbling, Brownie and Apollo decide to set out into the wide world, where they discover other pets and stray animals who have been left behind. But not everyone is man's best friend. It's a dog-eat-dog world now! With the help of a friendly neighborhood police dog and a small but mighty side-kick tick, Apollo and Brownie must figure out how to survive these dark times and locate their ultimate goal: dinner!

Author : Hideo Kamei
Publisher : U of M Center For Japanese Studies
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780472038046

Get Book

Transformations of Sensibility by Hideo Kamei Pdf

First published in Japan in 1983, this book is now a classic in modern Japanese literary studies. Covering an astonishing range of texts from the Meiji period (1868–1912), it presents sophisticated analyses of the ways that experiments in literary language produced multiple new—and sometimes revolutionary—forms of sensibility and subjectivity. Along the way, Kamei Hideo carries on an extended debate with Western theorists such as Saussure, Bakhtin, and Lotman, as well as with such contemporary Japanese critics as Karatani Kojin and Noguchi Takehiko. Transformations of Sensibility deliberately challenges conventional wisdom about the rise of modern literature in Japan and offers highly original close readings of works by such writers as Futabatei Shimei, Tsubouchi Shoyo, Higuchi Ichiyo, and Izumi Kyoka, as well as writers previously ignored by most scholars. It also provides a new critical theorization of the relationship between language and sensibility, one that links the specificity of Meiji literature to broader concerns that transcend the field of Japanese literary studies. Available in English translation for the first time, it includes a new preface by the author and an introduction by the translation editor that explain the theoretical and historical contexts in which the work first appeared.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Insurance
ISBN : UOM:39015035707176

Get Book

Journal of American Insurance by Anonim Pdf