June 2007 Blog Posts (2)

Check out Gary Gladstone's wonderful books: the original hilarious: "Passing Gas and other towns along the American HIghway", and the excellent sequel: "Reaching Climax..."

Gary traveled around America visiting towns with funny names and found great portraits in every one.
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The Billiad....

There are nearly one hundred towns in Ohio which bear the names of foreign places. Most of these communities were settled in the early 1800’s when it was fashionable to label a frontier town with an exotic foreign name.

I was born and raised in Cincinnati and moved to New York City in 1985 after living in Colorado for ten years. My sense of place was disrupted and I had just started a job which required extensive worldwide travel. In May 1985 between assignment… Continue