Peter Genovese

New Jersey Curiosities (eBook, PDF)

Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Whether you're a born-and-raised New Jerseyan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, New Jersey Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Peter Genovese takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of theGarden State.

Learn the proper way to cook a garbage can turkey, get the skinny on the real birthplace of baseball, and hear the story of Waving Willie, New Jersey's friendliestroadside character.

Meet the undisputed Weenie Queen of Garfield; a Hickory Dickory Dock clock-covering car artist; and a gas station-turned-restaurant-owning undertaker.

Feel the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat at the New Jersey Cockroach Derby, and relive the OK Corral shoot-out and shoot cap guns at bad guys in Wild West City.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780762769452
• Artikelnr.: 41665568

Autorenporträt

Peter Genovese is a feature writer for The (Newark, NJ) Star-Ledger and author of Roadside New Jersey, Jersey Diners, and The Great American Road Trip: US 1, Maine to Florida. Winner of various state press association awards, he was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his series on Rwanda.

Inhaltsangabe

Northeast
Northwest
Central
South
The Shore