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	Hometown Revelations - How America's cities, towns, and states acquired their names by Mark Usler
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Product Details Binding Paperback Dewey Decimal Number 973 EAN 9780978698706 ISBN 0978698703 Manufacturer DM Enterprises Inc. Number Of Items 1 Number Of Pages 95 Publication Date September 01, 2006 Publisher DM Enterprises Inc. Availability Usually ships in 24 hours Product Description In Hometown Revelations, you will find out how America's cities, towns, and states acquired their names. Most of the major U.S. cities are included but you will find answers why they named their town Peculiar, Happy or even Monkeys Eyebrow! In addition, you will learn how the states aquired their names. Not everybody's hometown may be included but the clues and mysteries revealed of other communities may lead you to your own revelation! Ever wonder how your hometown or your ancestor's got its moniker? Find out in Hometown Revelations: How America's Cities, Towns, and States Acquired Their Names. It covers most major U.S. cities, as well as towns such as Peculiar, Happy and Monkeys Eyebrow - likely including a few places in your family history --Family Tree Magazine - July 2007 by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack p. 71 NPR Weekend Edition Saturday June 23, 2007 Whether it's Monkey's Eyebrow, Toad Suck, Bad Axe or Embarrass, guaranteed someone calls it home in America. Mark Usler has collected odd town names and the stories behind them in his book, Hometown Revelations. Interview with Linda Wertheimer www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11326864 --NPR Weekend Saturday - June 23, 2007 www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11326864 In Hometown Revelations, you will find out how America's cities, towns, and states acquired their names. Most of the major U.S. cities are included but you will find answers why they named their town Peculiar, Happy or even Monkeys Eyebrow! In addition, you will learn how the states aquired their names. Not everybody's hometown may be included but the clues and mysteries revealed of other communities may lead you to your own revelation! Customers who bought this item also bought How the States Got Their Shapes Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (New York Review Books Classics) The Big Book of American Trivia Travia: The Ultimate Book of Travel Trivia Presidential Trivia Customer Reviews for: Hometown Revelations - How America's cities, towns, and states acquired their names Rating - Interesting topic This is a pretty good book. Easy to read in one afternoon or while traveling down the road in the passenger seat. Rating - disappointing So often I felt that there was more to the story. In fact, in a couple of instances I KNEW there was more to the story. And there are so many curiously named cities that were completely ignored. Learning that yet another town was named after a person got to be boring after awhile. I got the impression that very little actual research was done. Rating - Light Hearted Read Every one journeys down a road past a town with a funny or unusal name and thinks in the back of their mind how a community came up with such a name. This is a great book for answering some of those questions and might spark an interest in doing a little research on your own. You might be surprised how many people don't know how there hometown got it's name. Rating - Lightweight Fluffery This publication reminds me of those publications you see at the counter of a Stuckey's checkout. I call it that because it's too slim to be an actual book. At 95 large-type pages its more like a thick pamphlet. It reads like the author spent a few afternoons gleaming information from Wikipedia.com. There's no real scholarly research here and each entry is barely a paragraph long. Fine if you need something to read during a long car trip ... Read More see more reviews See all books by author Mark Usler

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