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Hometown Revelations - How America's cities, towns, and states acquired their names
Average Customer Review : 4.0/5 based on 7 reviews
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Editorial Reviews
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!
Spotlight Reviews
Interesting topic (2008-11-17)
Customer Review : 5
This is a pretty good book. Easy to read in one afternoon or while traveling down the road in the passenger seat.
disappointing (2008-11-14)
Customer Review : 2
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.
Light Hearted Read (2008-09-21)
Customer Review : 5
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.
Lightweight Fluffery (2008-09-14)
Customer Review : 2
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 but otherwise totally unsatisfying.
I agree with the other review in that too much emphasis is placed on MO and KS. Way too much is left out. For example, how did the town of Ninety Six, S.C. get its name? Not in there.
Trivial and focused on Missouri and Kansas, but entertaining (2008-07-09)
Customer Review : 4
This is a pretty fun book to read while on road trips or looking at maps. My biggest complaint is that the book is probably 70% focused on Missouri and Kansas. I personally try to avoid driving across both of them, so the road trip value is minimal to me. The history is pretty interesting though, and the state section is great. Overall, this is a fun book for trivial knowledge- it would be of particular interest to someone who enjoys cartography and US History.
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