Sunday, December 21, 2008
Weird Kentucky: Your Travel Guide to Kentucky's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
Weird Kentucky: Your Travel Guide to Kentucky's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
"Best Travel Series of the Year 2006!"—Booklist
What’s weird around here?
That’s a question Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman have enjoyed asking for years—and their offbeat sense of curiosity led them to create the bestselling phenomenon, Weird N.J. Now the weirdness has spread throughout key locales in the U.S. Each fun and intriguing volume offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don’t venture—it’s chock-full of oddball curiosities, ghostly places, local legends, crazy characters, cursed roads, and peculiar roadside attractions. What’s NOT shockingly odd here: that every previously published Weird book has become a bestseller in its region.
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Big Mistake
If the Kentucky State Fair is held in Lexington, then what is that big event held every August in Louisville at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center? The event that draws almost a million people, with entertainers from all over the country performing? The event whose indoor exhibits are held in the biggest building under roof in the State of Kentucky? According to "Weird Kentucky" the "only reason for going is to look at corn and hay." Freddy of the Farm Bureau is the attraction. Look closely at the picture. Behind Freddy is the Exposition Center in Louisville, where the Fair has been held every year for 60 years, with Freddy in his place every year. As a Louisvillian, I sure want to set the record straight. The Fair is held in Louisville, and it's a world class event. I doubt the author has ever been to the Fair. He should pay us a visit and see the West Wing full of exhibits, and the massive East and South wings. A couple of years ago the head from the statue of Saddam Hussain was on display in the East Wing, along with the rowboat which was rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. Every county in Kentucky is represented. There are hundreds of quilts on display, hundreds of everything. There is a huge mid-way, and more shows than you can shake a stick at. This blunder puts me in doubt of other information in this book. Is it true? The Fair in Kentucky is a world-class event.
Weird Kentucky
I didn't know that! What a fun and informational read. I can now entertain with true stories no one knows about. Highly recommend!
Not just for Kentuckians
Where to begin?
Weird Kentucky covers so many fascinating subjects, making it difficult to pigeonhole. Old wive's tales? Check. Urban legends? They're here. The paranormal? Fox Mulder would be proud. And you'll meet a wealth of local characters from all corners of the Commonwealth, from the 18th century to today.
This is one of the most unique and interesting books I've ever had the pleasure to read. Weird Kentucky is a celebration of the many wonderful things that make the Commonwealth special.
If you know how to read, you'll enjoy this book immensely, even if you have no connections to Kentucky.
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