BOOK
New York Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff (2008)
by Cindy Perman
New York Curiosities, part of a state-by-state series from the Globe Pequot Press, is your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places and things the Empire State has to offer!
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- 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!
Author’s Note:
This book was truly a labor of love. I spent the better portion of three years - and my savings - traveling around the state in pursuit of the most interesting people, places and things this state has to offer. I met some amazing people along the way and I’m thrilled to be able to share their stories.
It’s a great arm-chair read and will give you tons of material for your next watercooler show. I hope it also inspires you to get in the car and drive. Sure, I’m an amazing storyteller (hey, stop laughing) but some of these things you just gotta see yourself!
If you want to read more of my thoughts and hear some of the hilarious stories behind the stories, please check out my blog.
If you are a member of the media and would like a press release/review copy, the publicity person at the Globe Pequot Press is Allyson Coughlin — (203)-458-4646 and Allyson.Coughlin@globepequot.com.
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