Archive for August, 2008
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008The date: August 30. The place: the parking lot next to Freedom Worship Baptist Church in Blanchester, Ohio. The you-don’t-want-to-miss-this event: Evel Knievel’s former bodyguard jumping the World’s Largest Horseshoe Crab on a motorcycle, then crashing through the burning Gates of Hell! We were in Blanchestor earlier this month. The Church’s pastor, Jim Rankin, told […]
2008: August Escape
Monday, August 18th, 2008Our team is just back from a 4,300+ mile east-to-west road trip. We logged miles (at $3.60-$4.29/gal) to a procession of funky museums, roadside attractions, obscure statues and folk art environments. Big surprise, eh? We managed to squeeze in health checks of the Wisconsin Dells (alive), Black Hills (alive), the Ames Pyramid (dead, but unchanged), […]
World’s Largest Dead Fish Back On Display
Monday, August 4th, 2008After a dozen years, the world’s largest dead fish — and probably the largest taxidermied dead animal on the planet — is back in the public eye. The 32-foot-long whale shark had been at the Vanderbilt Museum in Centerport, New York — the centerpiece of Diorama Hall, which housed hundreds of stuffed animals collected by […]
Trucking Museum Opens At World’s Largest Truck Stop
Monday, August 4th, 2008Everyone has a dream. Bill Moon’s was to open a trucking museum. Bill died in 1992, but his dream did not. He had a family to complete that dream, and he left behind a business — Iowa 80, the World’s Largest Truck Stop, which included a lot of land (220 acres) and a large supply […]
Hometown Space for Lucy
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008The Lucy-Desi Museum in Jamestown, New York, always had a problem. It was a storefront, too small to do justice to what it felt was America’s greatest entertainer and her less famous first husband. That’s Lucille Ball, who was born in Jamestown, and Desi Arnaz. Granted, the museum was in an historically significant storefront — […]
Socorro: New Mexico’s Other UFO Town
Friday, August 1st, 2008Roswell, New Mexico, is the self-declared Alien Capital of the World, and it has made a name for itself by commemorating a flying saucer crash that supposedly occurred sort of, kind of near there in 1947. Plans are even being drafted to develop an alien theme park in that relatively remote desert community. Now a […]
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