Indiana Curiosities Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Hoosier State has to offer! Discover where you can spend the night in a yurt, find a 10-foot-tall orchid, and cross the state line just by dribbling down a high school basketball court. Meet a really, really tall gal in Shelbyville, a really, really short guy in Knox, and a man who rode a lawn mower across the United Statestwice (guess he missed a spot)! Learn where to go to watch cockroach racing, pumpkin launching, phone-book-tearing, grape stomping, and cricket spittingdon't laugh, it's an officially sanctioned sport. Whether you're a born-and-raised Indianan or a recent transplant, author Dick Wolfsie will have you laughing out loud as he introduces you to the neighbors you never knew you had and takes you to places you never knew existedright in your own backyard.Wolfsie, Dick is the author of 'Indiana Curiosities Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff', published 2006 under ISBN 9780762741137 and ISBN 0762741139.