Connecticut Curiosities : Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities and Other Offbeat Stuff

by Susan Campbell and Bill Heald

• ISBN13: 9780762708253
• ISBN10: 0762708255
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Globe Pequot

Summary

Prominent humor writers, columnists, and media personalities comb their home states for the most wacky and outrageous people, places, and things in this sassy series of state almanacs-gone-astray. Discover what's really great about a given state -- places overlooked on school field trips, people with odd and amazing talents, history that was left out of the books, a wealth of weird wonders most residents never dreamed existed.From mysterious noises and surreal supermarkets to car artists, flocks of plastic flamingoes, and places where Washington never slept, this collection of wry observations about Connecticut's oddest and most obscure phenomena will surprise and entertain even the most dyed-in-the-wool Nutmeggers!

Author Biography

Susan Campbell is an award-winning, nationally syndicated columnist and feature writer for the Hartford Courant. She lives in Marlborough, Connecticut. Bill Heald is a writer and photographer whose articles about trends and travel from New York to New Zealand appear regularly in Rider magazine and in many other motorcycle-related publications as well as on Playboy.com. He lives in Hampton, Connecticut. They are two Connecticut residents with warped senses of humor and a taste for the tasteless and the offbeat--who also manage to hold respectable jobs. Together they bring new meaning to the word silly.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	iii
Introduction	vii
Northwest	1	(36)
North-Central	37	(50)
Northeast	87	(38)
Southwest	125	(46)
South-Central	171	(48)
Southeast	219	(40)
Index	259