Massachusetts Curiosities : Quirky Characters Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

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 world
to 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 greenexcept for one.

Publisher: Globe Pequot
Distributor: The Globe Pequot Press
Publication Date: 08-03-2008
Pages: 256
Measurements: 9.00in X 6.00in