The blue guide to Indiana / Michael Martone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martone, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indiana--Humor.

Indiana.

Genre:

Humor.

Physical Description:

120 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tallahassee, FL : FC2, [2001]

Summary:

The master of the nearly true is back with The Blue Guide to Indiana, an ersatz travel book for the Hoosier State. Michael Martone, whose trademark is the blurring of the lines between fact and fiction, has created an Indiana that almost is -- a landscape marked by Lovers' Lane franchises and pharmaceutical drug theme parks. Visit the Trans-Indiana Mayonnaise Pipeline and the Field of Light Bulbs. Learn about Our Lady of the Big Hair and Feet or the history of the License Plate Insurrection of 1979. Let Martone guide you through every inch of the amazing state that is home to the Hoosier Infidelity Resort Area, the site of Wendell Willkie's Ascension into Heaven, and the Annual Eyeless Fish Fry. All your questions will be answered, including many you never thought to ask (like: "What's a good recipe for Pork Cake?").

Contents:

A Letter from the Lieutenant Governor of the State of Indiana 13

Some Major Cities and Towns 27

The Death Tour 33

The Cuisine 39

Travel Advisories 47

The Sports Tour 55

The Little Italies of Indiana 63

Eli Lilly Land 71

Scenic Waste Disposal and Storage Sites 77

The Sex Tour 83

A Parade of Homes 95

Wars, Battles, Skirmishes, Civil Unrest 103

Art 109

Holy Sites 111.

ISBN:

1573660957

OCLC:

46401580