This book is rated G for "good fun" because the complete title is "Passing Gas and other Towns along the .

This book is rated G for "good fun" because the complete title is "Passing Gas and other Towns along the American Highway. I have a dream of one day getting on my fantasy American built Indian or Knucklehead motorcycle and seeing our beautiful Country. Gary Gladstone gives me a vicarous peek without leaving NYC and he makes me giggle too. Anything to do with "gas" humor can send me into giggle spasms but Gary's book is tame with rich color pictures of small towns with the funniest names and sweet humble stories that accompany the pictures.

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After logging 38,000 miles in his trusty Trooper for his first photo odyssey, PASSING GAS, Gary Gladstone hit the road again, determined to visit the most oddly named towns in the United States and photograph the people who call them home. In REACHING CLIMAX, you'll meet quirky folks from Spasticville, Kansas; Burnt Corn, Alabama; Yeehaw, Florida; and more. Find out how Big Ugly got its name in this video about the making of the books Reaching Climax and Passing Ga.

According to an American Journal article Passing Gas: And Other Towns Along the American Highway. ISBN 1580084567) by Gary Gladstone, Goofy Ridge got its name thus

According to an American Journal article Passing Gas: And Other Towns Along the American Highway. ISBN 1580084567) by Gary Gladstone, Goofy Ridge got its name thus: Years back it was just The Ridge, a camp near the river bank where moonshiners and other carousers met weekly to do their drinking. After some serious drinking one night, a local game warden said he wasn’t too drunk to shoot a walnut off the head of a volunteer. Naturally, someone was drunk enough to volunteer. The game warden placed the tiny target on the volunteer’s head, aimed his

Book DescriptionPassing Gas And Other Towns Along the American Highway by Gary Gladstone "Explaining . Gas isn?t all you?ll be passing if you come along for the ride with author Gary Gladstone on a cross-country road trip across the .

Gas isn?t all you?ll be passing if you come along for the ride with author Gary Gladstone on a cross-country road trip across the . With camera in hand and the penchant for the unexpected, Gladstone captures a photographic portrait of small towns with unusual names and the folks who keep them on the map with their (admittedly.

Book Overview Gas isn't all you'll be passing if you come along for the ride with author Gary Gladstone on a cross-country.

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Gladstone, a New York magazine photographer, traveled 38,000 miles across 40 states to photograph America's strangest in his new book, Passing Gas: And Other Towns Along the American Highway Ten Speed Press. Gladstone found Gas in Kansas while photographing Tightwad a small Missouri town that earned its name more than a century ago. Tightwads now pride themselves on their hospitality. But long ago, a local store owner accepted a deposit on merchandise that he sold to another customer at a higher price. The first customer shouted, Tightwad, and the incident lived on for years

According to an American Journal article Passing Gas: And Other Towns Along the American Highway () by Gary Gladstone, Goofy Ridge got its name thus: The abstract of the academic paper "Goofy Ridge.

According to an American Journal article Passing Gas: And Other Towns Along the American Highway () by Gary Gladstone, Goofy Ridge got its name thus: The abstract of the academic paper "Goofy Ridge: On Human Ecology, Poverty, and the Labeling of Places" hints there may be a social significance associated with this incident, something confirmed by a segment on Weekend America. According to Storyville, USA () by Dale Peterson, "Al Capone, as a matter of fact, used to come down to hunt and fish. List of census-designated places in Illinois.