New Hampshire Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff - Paperback

by Eric Jones (Author)

The definitive collection of New Hampshire's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for New Hampshire residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.

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Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Granite State has to offer. Whether you're a born-and-raised New Hampshirite, a recent transplant, or just passing through, New Hampshire Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Eric Jones takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of the Granite State.Meet the state's Official Gull Harasser (Uh-huh, it's a government job); a man who made 2,850 consecutive ascents of Mount Monadnock; and Dean Kamen, New Hampshire's very own twenty-first-century Thomas Edison.Lament the passing of the state-sponsored Roadkill Auction, where the frozen carcasses of everything from bobcat to black bear were available to the highest bidder--until a rabies outbreak put an end to this time-honored tradition.Visit the Exeter UFO Festival--an annual event in the town that saw one of the most impressive UFO sightings on record, in September 1965--and the 1804 grave of a soldier's amputated leg.

Author Biography

Eric Jones is a 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.