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Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Old Dominion has to offer! Meet a man who collects Sherman tanks; a husband who built his wife her own Graceland; and the daredevil who proved tomatoes aren't poisonousby eating one! Visit the grave of Stonewall Jackson's left arm; George Washington's private whiskey still; and the pharmacy where Robert E. Lee filled his prescriptions. Discover the world's oldest ice-cream cone making machine; how to send flowers to Patsy Cline; and what's not funny about a Ha-Ha. Whether you're a born-and-raised Virginian or a recent transplant, author Sharon Cavileer will have you laughing out loud as she introduces you to the neighbors you never knew you had and takes you to places you never knew existedright in your own backyard.Cavileer, Sharon is the author of 'Virginia Curiosities Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff', published 2006 under ISBN 9780762741403 and ISBN 0762741406.
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