New York Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff (Curiosities Series) (Paperback)

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From the Back Cover

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!

About the Author

Cindy Perman is a native New Yorker, a freelance humor writer and an experienced journalist, who wrote for the Wall Street Journal Online for nine years. She knows the state up, down, left and right, having grown up in Rochester, attended school in Syracuse, and lived in New York City, where she's made her home since 1994.

Product Details

• Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: Globe Pequot; 1st edition (August 13, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762743395
• ISBN-13: 978-0762743391
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #859,339 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Who would have thought learning about New York State could be so fun?, August 31, 2009

By	S. Pasquale (Worcester, MA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

After living in central New York (and married to a western New Yorker) for more than 15 years, I was still so surprised at all of the interesting, fun and unusual things I have missed out on so far. But not for long - I plan to keep this book in the car for those trips across state; if I can have half as much fun as the author seems to have had it will be well worth it. The format of the book is very easy to follow and keeps you "moving" - it was hard to put down.

5.0 out of 5 stars LAUGH YOUR WAY THROUGH NEW YORK, August 23, 2009

By	Da Yang Yu (Staten Island, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Definitely lives up words at the back of the book, "LAUGH YOUR WAY THROUGH NEW YORK"! Tons of material for anyone to learn about New York.

5.0 out of 5 stars NEW YORK CURIOSITIES, June 12, 2009

By	TRAIN PASSANGER (MARCY, NY) - See all my reviews

THE BOOK IS THE "HOOT".....IT REFLECTS THE AUTHOR'S PERSONALITY AS WELL AS A GREAT GUIDE TO NEW YORK'S CRAZIEST PLACES TO VISIT!!