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22%OFFTherese Boyd - The Best Places You´ve Never Seen: Pennsylvania´s Small Museums: A Traveler´s Guide - 9780271022765 - V9780271022765
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The Best Places You´ve Never Seen: Pennsylvania´s Small Museums: A Traveler´s Guide

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Description for The Best Places You´ve Never Seen: Pennsylvania´s Small Museums: A Traveler´s Guide Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 86 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; WTHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 178 x 15. Weight in Grams: 381.

You know the Carnegie Institute and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but have you ever visited the Toy Robot Museum in Adamstown or Bill's Old Bike Barn in Bloomsburg? The Tom Mix Museum in Mix Run? The Houdini Museum in Scranton? Pennsylvania's many small museums are easy to miss in an age of instant information and superhighways. After reading Therese Boyd's guide, however, you'll rush to get off the beaten track to find them. Pennsylvania's little wonders are as entertaining as they are educational.

Unlike large museums, which display masterpieces of art and other "important" items, small museums feature objects ... Read more

Boyd, who has visited small museums throughout Pennsylvania, concentrates on the forty-two museums she considers most worth a detour. These range from Kready's Museum, where visitors can savor the simple pleasures of a country store, to the Vocal Groups Hall of Fame and Museum, where music fans can listen to "golden oldies" and pore over memorabilia (including sequined dresses once worn by the Supremes). Boyd's personal favorite is the museum in the home of Christian Sanderson, a man who collected literally hundreds of historical relics, not the least of which is the purse found in the apron pocket of Jennie Wade, the only civilian killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. Boyd's book is a comprehensive, illustrated guide to the best small museums in Pennsylvania. It weaves amusing anecdotes about Boyd's own visits to the museums along with descriptions of their histories and collections. Her guide provides travel directions as well as complete information about each museum's visiting hours, website, and contact information.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271022765
SKU
V9780271022765
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99-1

About Therese Boyd
Therese Boyd is a (nearly) lifelong Pennsylvanian. When she's not driving the back roads looking for somewhere fun or writing about where she's been, she edits books, writes book reviews, and teaches writing at Penn State York.

Reviews for The Best Places You´ve Never Seen: Pennsylvania´s Small Museums: A Traveler´s Guide
“Although the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with its famous Rocky staircase and Thomas Eakins masterpieces, is a must-see for most Keystone State visitors, the rest of the state’s museums are largely unknown to outsiders. Writer Boyd has visited small museums throughout Pennsylvania and found 42 she says are worth detouring for; she details these little gems in this handy guide ... Read more

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