In a Strange State: Road Trip Through Strange But True Tennessee | p. 11 |
Strange Statues | p. 13 |
Athena | p. 13 |
Basketball | p. 14 |
Catfish | p. 15 |
Coke Cans | p. 15 |
Eiffel Tower | p. 15 |
Nathan Bedford Forrest | p. 16 |
Giant Food | p. 18 |
Alex Haley | p. 19 |
Andrew Jackson | p. 19 |
Andrew Johnson | p. 20 |
Mayfield Dairy Cow | p. 21 |
Muffler Men of Tennessee | p. 22 |
Dolly Parton | p. 23 |
Pink Elephant | p. 24 |
Sandy the Sandstone Statue | p. 24 |
War Dog Memorial | p. 25 |
Natural and Manmade Wonders | p. 27 |
Appalachian Caverns | p. 27 |
Buck Bald | p. 28 |
Craighead Caverns | p. 29 |
Crystal Shrine Grotto | p. 32 |
Cumberland Caverns | p. 33 |
Doe River Covered Bridge | p. 34 |
Ebbing and Flowing Spring | p. 35 |
Elephant Sanctuary | p. 36 |
Flying Saucer House | p. 36 |
Forbidden Caverns | p. 37 |
Frozen Head State Natural Area | p. 37 |
Geographic Center of Tennessee | p. 38 |
Graceland | p. 38 |
Great Smoky Mountains National Park | p. 40 |
Hundred Oaks Castle | p. 42 |
Incline Railroad | p. 43 |
The Lost Sea | p. 46 |
Millennium Manor | p. 48 |
Natchez Trace Parkway | p. 49 |
The Parthenon | p. 51 |
The Peabody Hotel | p. 52 |
Rock City | p. 54 |
Ruby Falls | p. 56 |
Space Needle | p. 57 |
Sunsphere | p. 58 |
Tennessee Aquarium | p. 59 |
Strange Museums | p. 63 |
American Museum of Science and Energy | p. 63 |
Archie Campbell Museum | p. 64 |
Battles for Chattanooga Electric Map and Museum | p. 65 |
Beale Street Substation Police Museum | p. 66 |
Buford Pusser Home and Museum | p. 68 |
Carbo's Police Museum | p. 69 |
Carter House | p. 70 |
Casey Jones Village and Casey Jones Home/Museum | p. 72 |
Chattanooga Choo Choo Model Railroad Museum | p. 74 |
Dragon Dreams Dragon Museum | p. 75 |
Dukes of Hazzard Museum - Cooter's Place | p. 75 |
Elvis Museum | p. 76 |
Farragut Folklife Museum | p. 77 |
Fire Museum of Memphis | p. 78 |
Guinness World of Record Museum | p. 79 |
The Hermitage | p. 80 |
International Towing and Recover Hall of Fame and Museum | p. 81 |
Lauderdale Courts Apartment Where Elvis Lived | p. 83 |
Little River Railroad and Lumber Company Museum | p. 84 |
Loretta Lynn Ranch & Coal Miner's Daughter Museum | p. 85 |
Museum of Appalachia | p. 87 |
National Ornamental Metal Museum | p. 89 |
Oliver Springs Railroad Depot Museum | p. 90 |
Pink Palace Family of Museums | p. 90 |
Ramsey House Plantation | p. 92 |
Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum | p. 93 |
Sequoyah Birthplace Museum | p. 94 |
University of Memphis Institute of Egyptian Art & Archeology | p. 95 |
The Haunting of Tennessee | p. 97 |
The Bell Witch | p. 97 |
Carnton Mansion | p. 99 |
Chickamauga-Chattanooga Military Park | p. 101 |
Craigmiles Bloody Mausoleum | p. 102 |
East Tennessee State University | p. 103 |
Meriwether Lewis Park | p. 104 |
Orpheum Theatre | p. 105 |
Ryman Auditorium | p. 106 |
Wickham Statues | p. 108 |
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry! | p. 109 |
B.B King's Blues Club | p. 109 |
Baker Peters Jazz Club | p. 111 |
Bluebird Cafe | p. 112 |
Blues City Cafe | p. 113 |
Bosco's | p. 115 |
Brooks Shaw's Old Country Store | p. 115 |
Charlie Vergo's Rendezvous | p. 117 |
Corky's B.B.Q. | p. 117 |
Ernestine and Hazel's | p. 118 |
Exit/In | p. 120 |
Huey's Midtown | p. 121 |
Lulu Grille | p. 121 |
Rum Boogie Cafe | p. 122 |
Miscellaneous Miscellany | p. 125 |
It's the Law! | p. 125 |
Strange Town Names | p. 126 |
Alamo | p. 126 |
Bell Buckle | p. 127 |
Bucksnort | p. 127 |
Chattanooga | p. 128 |
Graball | p. 128 |
Lick Skillet | p. 129 |
Skullbone | p. 129 |
Stinking Creek | p. 129 |
Suck Creek | p. 129 |
Suck-Egg Hollow | p. 130 |
Sweet Lips | p. 130 |
Wartburg | p. 130 |
Towns of Note | p. 131 |
Bristol | p. 131 |
Chattanooga | p. 132 |
Elizabethton | p. 133 |
Greenville | p. 133 |
Grinder's Switch | p. 134 |
Jonesborough | p. 135 |
Lebanon | p. 136 |
Lynchburg | p. 137 |
Nutbush | p. 138 |
Shelbyville | p. 138 |
Funny Happenings Here | p. 141 |
Bell's & Benge's Memorial Motorcycle Ride & American Indian Social & Reenactment Walk Festival | p. 141 |
Blackberry Festival | p. 142 |
Bonnaroo Music Festival | p. 142 |
Canjoe Music Sessions | p. 143 |
Clinch Mountain MusicFest | p. 145 |
Colonial Fair | p. 146 |
Covered Bridge Celebration | p. 147 |
Crape Myrtle Festival | p. 147 |
Diana Singing | p. 149 |
Dollywood | p. 150 |
Farm Machinery Show | p. 151 |
Gobbler Gala | p. 151 |
Great Pumpkin Festival and Weigh Off | p. 151 |
International Dogwood Festival | p. 152 |
The Jack Daniel Distillery Tour | p. 153 |
Mad Anthony Wayne Day | p. 154 |
National Cornbread Festival | p. 155 |
National Storytelling Festival | p. 156 |
Peters Hollow Egg Fight | p. 157 |
Pie Bird Convention | p. 158 |
Ramp Festival | p. 159 |
R.C. Cola and MoonPie Craft Fair | p. 160 |
Secret City Festival | p. 160 |
Teapot Festival | p. 163 |
Strange But True Culture | p. 167 |
Artists | p. 167 |
Hawkins Bolden | p. 167 |
Frank "Preacher" Boyle | p. 169 |
Shane Campbell | p. 170 |
John Paul Daniel aka Bebo | p. 170 |
William Cross | p. 172 |
William Edmondson | p. 172 |
Bessie Harvey | p. 174 |
Danny "The Bucket Man" Hoskinson | p. 175 |
Dow Pugh | p. 177 |
Vannoy "Wireman" Streeter | p. 177 |
E. T. Wickham | p. 178 |
Music from the Heart | p. 179 |
Roy Acuff | p. 179 |
Charlie Bowman | p. 181 |
Lester Flatt | p. 182 |
"Tennessee" Ernie Ford | p. 184 |
Aretha Franklin | p. 185 |
The Grand Old Opry | p. 185 |
Uncle Dave Macon | p. 188 |
Writers | p. 189 |
James Agee | p. 189 |
Alex Haley | p. 190 |
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