Ohio Oddities: A Guide to the Curious Attractions of the Buckeye State
Neil Zurcher
(Author)
Description
"Oddly delightful ... From the Blue Hole to the headless chicken, it's a wonderfully wacky page turner." -- Martin Savidge, CNN
The Buckeye State has no shortage of strange, silly, goofy, quirky, eccentric, and just plain weird places, people, and things--if you know where to look. Nobody has looked in more places than Neil Zurcher, the popular TV travel reporter who has driven more than a million miles seeking out the unusual. This book collects his most remarkable finds, including ...
- The World's Largest Cuckoo Clock
- The nation's only vacuum cleaner museum
- Balto the Wonder Dog,
- The "bottomless" Blue Hole of Casalia
- and lots more hard-to-believe stuff!
Zurcher's eye for unique and fun attractions can turn any road trip into a car ride through the Twilight Zone.
Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
Gray & Company Publishers
Publish Date
October 30, 2008
Pages
210
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.4 X 0.5 inches | 0.55 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781598510478
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About the Author
Neil Zurcher started as a newspaper reporter in 1954, switched to radio in 1961, and became WJW-TV's first full-time street reporter in 1967. He logged more than a million miles as the original host of the "One Tank Trips" travel series and was associated with WJW-TV for more than fifty years, retiring in 2017. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Society of Professional Journalists, the Gold Circle Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and the Living Legacy award from the Ohio Broadcasters Hall of Fame. He is the author of several books about Ohio, including Ohio Oddities, Strange Tales From Ohio, The Best of One Tank Trips, and Tales from the Road.
Reviews
Drawn like a magnet to the quirky and the offbeat, Zurcher has heard many doozies of stories over the years, and his folksy style of relating them makes for some delightful reading.--Rich Warren"Country Living Magazine" (02/01/2002)
In his usual down-to-earth style, Zurcher introduces the world's fastest pumpkin carver, zips off to the Ohio Tobacco Festival and pays a visit to the world's largest wooden longhorn cow.--Ann Cribbs"Ohio Magazine" (11/01/2001)
Oddly delightful. Those leaning over my shoulder on the airplane felt the same. From the Blue Hole to the headless chicken, it's a wonderfully wacky page turner. As a fellow Buckeye, it made me proud to see Ohio put the "O" in odd!-- (12/09/2001)
The oddest thing about Neil Zurcher's new book isn't the contents. It's what it says about human nature. The book is weird, make no mistake . . . Runs down some of the strangest sites that Zurcher has encountered in his never-ending One Tank Trips around the Buckeye State. From a 50-foot Madonna in Windsor to a perambulator museum in Jefferson, the book exposes Ohio in all its offbeat glory.-- (12/06/2001)
With attractions like these, who says Ohio is just 'fly-over country'? . . . Neil Zurcher, a Cleveland TV personality, made a living out of ferreting out Ohio's biggest, smallest, tallest, fattest, or just really have to dig too deep to find Ohio's wide, wild streak of weirdness.-- (02/23/2003)
One fun little book. These little essays are absolutely fascinating.-- (11/26/2001)
In his usual down-to-earth style, Zurcher introduces the world's fastest pumpkin carver, zips off to the Ohio Tobacco Festival and pays a visit to the world's largest wooden longhorn cow.--Ann Cribbs"Ohio Magazine" (11/01/2001)
Oddly delightful. Those leaning over my shoulder on the airplane felt the same. From the Blue Hole to the headless chicken, it's a wonderfully wacky page turner. As a fellow Buckeye, it made me proud to see Ohio put the "O" in odd!-- (12/09/2001)
The oddest thing about Neil Zurcher's new book isn't the contents. It's what it says about human nature. The book is weird, make no mistake . . . Runs down some of the strangest sites that Zurcher has encountered in his never-ending One Tank Trips around the Buckeye State. From a 50-foot Madonna in Windsor to a perambulator museum in Jefferson, the book exposes Ohio in all its offbeat glory.-- (12/06/2001)
With attractions like these, who says Ohio is just 'fly-over country'? . . . Neil Zurcher, a Cleveland TV personality, made a living out of ferreting out Ohio's biggest, smallest, tallest, fattest, or just really have to dig too deep to find Ohio's wide, wild streak of weirdness.-- (02/23/2003)
One fun little book. These little essays are absolutely fascinating.-- (11/26/2001)
