Massachusetts Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

Massachusetts Curiosities

Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

2008 • 264 pages

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Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Bay State has to offer! - Have some joe under the world's largest tea pot; visit the oldest pet cemetery in America, including the grave of a canine Arctic explorer named Igloo; and look for your lost marbles at a convention in Marlborough. - Spend the night in a four-star jailhouse; take a look at the statue commemorating one of America's founding farters; and go to the witch trial capital of the worldto find a memorial to Samantha of Bewitched!- Learn about the first Englishman to call Boston home; an eccentric bookworm who enjoyed bull riding in the buff; or the mercury-crazed hat maker who killed John Wilkes Booth; and find out why all the seats in Fenway are painted green--except for one.

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U.S. State Curiosities

U.S. State Curiosities is a 5-book series first released in 2002 with contributions by David Grimes, Tom Becnel, and Russ Ringsak.


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