Weird Minnesota: Your Travel Guide to Minnesota's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets [Hardcover]

Eric Dregni (Author), Mark Moran (Foreword), Mark Sceurman (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2006

Hail Minnesota for its strange sites, bizarre history, and peculiar folks! Come along and climb the Witch's Tower, sit down in a two-story outhouse, and spend a night in the Drunk Tank at the JailHouse Historic Inn. Then go gape at the country's largest collection of underwear. After all that, relax at the Bowling Hall of Fame. This new paperback version of Weird Minnesota is a wild and wacky trip you'll never forget.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Eric Dregni is an MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at the University of Minnesota, where he avoids classes by driving to visit the oversize lumberjack statues that fill his fair state. His road trips in search of bizarre attractions have yielded Minnesota Marvels and Midwest Marvels, published by the University of Minnesota Press. He lived in Italy for four years, where he ate pig trotters and cow brains, followed by a year as a Fulbright Fellow in Trondheim, Norway, where he feasted on rakfisk (fermented fish). He now lives in Minneapolis.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Sterling; First Edition edition (September 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402739087
• ISBN-13: 978-1402739088
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 9.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #831,012 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An offbeat travelogue, January 23, 2007

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D. S. Bornus (St. Paul, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Weird Minnesota: Your Travel Guide to Minnesota's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (Hardcover)

This is an enjoyable coffee-table style book about odd things, places, events and people in Minnesota. In comparision to some of the other books in the "Weird" series, I felt that this one was better because it contains many things that are significant cultural or historical icons to Minnesotans, instead of simply bizarre things or painted-up junk in people's backyards found in some of the other books in the "Weird" series. For example, entries include Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox in Bemidji, the Kensington Rune Stone in Alexandria, museums of questionable medical devices, etc., things that have a story behind them. This book would make a good travel guide for those inclined to spend some leisure time in the land of 10,000 Lakes.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Weird Minnesota, September 25, 2010

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This review is from: Weird Minnesota: Your Travel Guide to Minnesota's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (Hardcover)

Great book! Planning next vacation to Minnesota around this book. My husband is from here and he didn't even know some of these facts. Very interesting.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Coffee table book, not a travel guide, September 4, 2007

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KRB - See all my reviews

This review is from: Weird Minnesota: Your Travel Guide to Minnesota's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (Hardcover)

If you are looking for a book to flip through and read about random odd places in Minnesota, this book if fine. If you actually want to try to visit some of them, don't bother. The book is not at all set up to help you actually find the places highlighted. Sights are not grouped geographically, and there is no index to let you do it yourself. Some of the entries I saw didn't even list which town they are in/near.