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1 online resource |
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Print version record. |
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There's more to Michigan than beautiful forests, shuttered factories, and miles and miles of stunning shoreline. Armed with this offbeat travel guide, you'll soon discover the strange underbelly of the Great Lakes State. Michigan has monuments to fluoridation, snurfing, the designer of the Jefferson nickel, and the once-famous Mr. Chicken, as well as festivals honoring tulips, Christmas pickles, and a 38-acre fungus. It's where you'll find the World's Largest Lugnut, the Nun Doll Museum, Joe's Gizzard City, the Teenie-Weenie Pickle Barrel Cottage, Howdy Doody, and Thomas Edison's last breath. The state also has its share of weird historyit's where Harry Houdini perished on Halloween night in 1926, where skater Tanya Harding's posse whacked Nancy Kerrigan, and where the Kellogg brothers invented popular breakfast cereals and less-popular yogurt enemas. Along with humorous histories and witty observations, Oddball Michigan provides addresses, websites, hours, fees, and driving directions for each of its 450 entries. |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Upper Peninsula; Map of the Upper Peninsula; 2. Northern Michigan; Map of Northern Michigan; 3. Western Michigan; Map of Western Michigan; 4. Central Michigan; Map of Central Michigan; 5. Eastern Michigan; Map of Eastern Michigan; 6. Detroit and Suburbs; 7. THe Christmas Tour; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Recommended Sources; City Index; Site Index; Back Cover. |
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Michigan -- Guidebooks.
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Curiosities and wonders -- Michigan -- Guidebooks.
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Michigan -- History, Local -- Miscellanea.
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TRAVEL -- United States -- Midwest -- East North Central (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Curiosities and wonders. (OCoLC)fst00885285
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Michigan. (OCoLC)fst01208387
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Guidebooks. (OCoLC)fst01423871
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Local history. (OCoLC)fst01411631
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Miscellanea. (OCoLC)fst01423854
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pohlen, Jerome. Oddball Michigan. Chicago Review Press 2014 9781613748930 |
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9781613748947 (electronic bk.) |
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1613748949 (electronic bk.) |
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1306562953 (electronic bk.) |
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9781306562959 (electronic bk.) |
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9781613748961 (electronic bk.) |
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1613748965 (electronic bk.) |
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