Iowa Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Jones, Eric; Coffey, Dan

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ISBN 10: 0762754192 ISBN 13: 9780762754199

Casa editrice: Globe Pequot, 2010

Riassunto

Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Hawkeye State has to offer!

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Informazioni sull'autore

Dan Coffey is best known as public radio's "Dr. Science." While in graduate school, Coffey co-founded an absurdist theater group who called themselves "Duck's Breath Mystery Theater." After receiving his MFA in Playwriting from the University of Iowa in 1975, he and his comedy troupe moved to San Francisco, where they remained for the next twelve years, performing in night clubs and college campuses. Coffey and fellow Duck Merle Kessler developed the "Ask Dr. Science" show, which has been a staple on public radio since 1983. Coffey and Kessler have written two Dr. Science books, "Dr. Science's Big Book of Science" (Contemporary Books, 1985), and Dr. Science's Big Book of Science, Simplified (William Morrow, 1992). Dr. Science also was the star of a PBS special and a Fox television series.

Coffey makes his home in Iowa City, Iowa, where he continues to write in a humorous vein.

Co-author Eric Jones is a recent graduate of The University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program. A personal essayist and travel writer, he also works as a mover and as a nursing assistant at the University of Iowa Hospital's Burn Treatment Center.

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Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Hawkeye State has to offer!

Whether you're a born-and-raised Iowan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Iowa Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Eric Jones and Dan Coffey introduce you to the weirdest, wackiest, most outrageous characters and events in the state, and take you places you never could have imagined some of them right around the corner!

Meet the Guinness World Record holding house-of-cards builder, a 13-foot giant sloth wearing a

Santa suit, and a man who hiccupped for sixty-nine years.

Discover the best places to play Chicken Bingo and Hoover Ball; bathe in a Murphy tub; or drink a
strawberry phosphate, Pink Lady, or Dipsy Doodle.

Tour the rotating Squirrel Cage Jail, the only all-mule cemetery in Iowa, and the Matchstick Marvels

museum, where you can view the U.S. Capitol (made of 478,000 matchsticks).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Globe Pequot
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0762754192
• ISBN 13: 9780762754199
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 258
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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