New Jersey Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

by Peter Genovese

Overview

Whether you’re a born-and-raised New Jerseyan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, New Jersey Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Peter Genovese takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of theGarden State.
Learn the proper way to cook a garbage can turkey, get the skinny on the real birthplace of baseball, and hear the story of Waving Willie, New Jersey’s friendliestroadside character.
Meet the undisputed Weenie Queen of Garfield; a Hickory Dickory Dock clock–covering car artist; and a gas station-turned-restaurant-owning undertaker.
Feel the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat at the New Jersey Cockroach Derby, and relive the OK Corral shoot-out and shoot cap guns at bad guys in Wild West City.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762769452
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/02/2011
Series:	Curiosities Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

 Peter Genovese is a feature writer for The (Newark, NJ) Star-Ledger and author of Roadside New Jersey, Jersey Diners, and The Great American Road Trip: US 1, Maine to Florida. Winner of various state press association awards, he was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his series on Rwanda.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
	Northeast New Jersey	1
	Northwest New Jersey	75
	Central New Jersey	109
	South Jersey	157
	The Jersey Shore	211
	Index	261
	About the Author	269