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| Foreword: A Note from the Marks | 6 | |
| Introduction | 8 | |
| Local Legends and Lore | 10 | |
| Ancient Mysteries | 34 | |
| Fabled People and Places | 50 | |
| Unexplained Phenomena | 70 | |
| Bizarre Beasts | 88 | |
| Local Heroes and Villains | 104 | |
| Personalized Properties | 126 | |
| Roadside Oddities | 150 | |
| Roads Less Traveled | 178 | |
| Quaker State Ghosts | 200 | |
| Cemetery Safari | 222 | |
| Abandoned Places | 242 | |
| Index | 264 | |
| Acknowledgments | 270 | |
| Picture Credits | 271 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
| WonderClub |
Bill McHardy
reviewed Weird Pennsylvania: Your Travel Guide to Pennsylvania's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets on June 04, 2015
Weird Pennsylvania
Review title: April Fool's roadtrip
This coffee table book is perfect for taking an April Fool's road trip from your armchair. No need to head north (for me) back to PA where I'm from to experience these roadside oddities. After all, its only April 1, and it could still be snowing somewhere in PA, especially the western part of the state where I grew up.
Two problems with books like this:
1). Manufactured weirdness, courtesy of publishers in search of an audience or local visitors' bureaus in search of a tourist, aren't at all interesting to armchair travelers. While tongue in cheek about it, Weird Pennsylvania has more than its share of pages of fluff I just flipped through.
2). The information quickly gets out of date and can be better addressed through a web site. However this web site doesn't have as much updating as I would expect. Roadside America's signature website appears to be more actively updated.
Still, as a Pennsylvania native who spent most of his first 40 years there, and only moved south to follow my job (and found I like the weather here better!), I passed a few hours reintroducing myself to the oddness of home. It felt right.
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