€œA delightful read . . . Zurcher chooses his anecdotes well, balancing scandalous murder mysteries and the truly odd with lighter fare about Ohio€s famous inventors and funniest first achievements.€ €• Akron Life Magazine
Ohio history can get pretty strange! From the author of the popular offbeat travel guide €œOhio Oddities€Â, here are 75 equally odd tales of Ohio€s most remarkable people, places, and events.
Learn why residents of Blueball, Ohio, erected a monument to a pig. Witness the birth of the inflatable airplane in Akron. Revisit Ohio€s last public whipping, near Dayton. Find out if Ohio really was bombed by the Japanese in World War II. Read about Ashtabula€s famed Headless Chicken, who lived without his noggin for 38 days . . . the world€s first recorded automobile accident . . . the man who invented disposable diapers . . .
A real treat for anyone who enjoys Ohio history with a twist.
