Arizona Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff by Sam Lowe

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You've never experienced life in its full vibrancy until you have witnessed Alpine, Arizona's, annual Worm Race. According to author Sam Lowe, this avidly watched summer competition is just one of the events that proves that Arizona is not your average state. He notes, for example, that Arizona is the only state in the Union with its very own official state neckwear (the bola tie) and the only jurisdiction on earth to have prosecuted a man for murder by Gila monster. Veteran journalist and longtime Arizona resident Lowe has compiled a delightful assemblage of snippets about all that is most strange in the Grand Canyon State.

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Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Grand Canyon State has to offer!
 
Stand exactly 3,333.33 feet above sea level; walk among trolls and gnomes in the Valley of the Moon; and explore a crater made by a 2,548-pound rubber-band ball.

See what it’s like in Paradise, Eden, and Nowhere; witness the Running of the
Chihuahuas; and hear your voice in a vortex.

Meet Eve, the ghost that lives in a brothel turned bed-and-breakfast; cheer with the Fighting Artichokes; and reminisce with a man who brings back the past with bicycles.

Whether you’re a born-and-raised Arizonian or a recent transplant, author Sam Lowe will have you laughing out loud as he introduces you to the neighbors you never knew you had and takes you to places you never knew existed—right in your own backyard.

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