Weird Minnesota: Your Travel Guide to Minnesota's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

by Eric Dregni, Mark Moran (Editor), Mark Sceurman (Editor)

Overview

Hail Minnesota for its strange sites, bizarre history, and peculiar folks! Come along and climb the Witchs Tower, sit down in a two-story outhouse, and spend a night in the Drunk Tank at the JailHouse Historic Inn. Then go gape at the countrys largest collection of underwear. After all that, relax at the Bowling Hall of Fame. This new paperback version of Weird Minnesota is a wild and wacky trip youll never forget.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402788260
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	05/01/2012
Series:	Weird , #21
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	482,108
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Eric Dregni is an MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at the University of Minnesota, where he avoids classes by driving to visit the oversize lumberjack statues that fill his fair state. His road trips in search of bizarre attractions have yielded Minnesota Marvels and Midwest Marvels, published by the University of Minnesota Press. He lived in Italy for four years, where he ate pig trotters and cow brains, followed by a year as a Fulbright Fellow in Trondheim, Norway, where he feasted on rakfisk (fermented fish). He now lives in Minneapolis.

Editorial Reviews

Unlike some states, Minnesota has never kept its weirdness under wraps. The home of Paul Bunyan, Bob Dylan, the Pharaoh's Chamber, and the Spam Museum rightly regards unbridled eccentricity as originality. Weirdness aficionado Eric Dregni traveled the North Star State from east to west to plumb the depths of Minnesota strangeness. He returned with nearly unbelievable stories of bizarre sites, outlandish history, and singular people. A unabashed celebration of strangeness.