Indiana Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities, and Other Offbeat Stuff

by Dick Wolfsie

Book Overview

Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Hoosier State has to offer! This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762723513
• ISBN13: 9780762723515
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Wolfsie's lighthearted, witty style is perfect for this topic

Indianapolis TV personality Dick Wolfsie is well-known in Central Indiana for finding fun, interesting human-interest segments for his station's morning show. Wolfsie continues this theme by digging up oddities from all over the Hoosier state that would interest any traveler who wants to stray from the beaten path. Wolfsie provides a description of the curiousity, organized by region and alphabetized by the town in which it is located. The book covers five regions and includes a map of that region that labels every town mentioned in that section of the book, no matter how small the town. Examples include the RV museum in Elkhart, a jar museum in Muncie and the site of John Dillinger's first official crime in Mooresville. Wolfsie includes addresses, phone mumbers, websites, e-mail addresses and contact names (some are only available through appointments). Rough directions from Indianapolis are included.

Indiana can be fun. No really, it can!

This is an excellent book for anyone looking for fun stuff to do in Indiana. It's full of unusual attractions (which are organized by region)and includes plenty of interesting information about a state which many consider to be hopelessly uninteresting. I've used this book to plan mini road trips with my friends which is a cheap and amusing diversion when you've got nothing to do on a weekend. It's also a fun way to get to know the state and to show proper appreciation for such impressive attractions as the World's Largest Trowel.

Excellent book of trivia

This book is amazing! It has many pieces of "useless" trivia - unless you stop and think about the uses of this knowledge. Did you know that a town in the Hoosier state seceded from the Union at the state of the Civil War? I didn't till I read this book - and I'm a major in that field with a wealth of knowledge on Indiana and the Civil War.

Great book!

This book is really intersting and funny! It offers so much information about IN--things you never knew that are great trivia! Great for planning day trips in the state, too!

Funny, interesting reading

You'll enjoy this book even if you don't live in Indiana -- and you'll definitely enjoy it if you do. Packed with the odd and unusual, this book was filled with surprises even for me, and I've lived in Indiana for almost 20 years. Strange things you'll see along the road, folks who collect or build wierd stuff, bizarre legends and history... Dick Wolfsie explains them all with both wit and respect, and turns in a first-rate book that you should have with you on any daytrip you take around the Hoosier state.