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Loading... Fringe Florida: Travels among Mud Boggers, Furries, Ufologists, Nudists, and Other Lovers of Unconventional Lifestyles (edition 2013)by Lynn Waddell
Work InformationFringe Florida: Travels among Mud Boggers, Furries, Ufologists, Nudists, and Other Lovers of Unconventional Lifestyles by Lynn Waddell
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I somehow get drawn into these slice of life books with the fancy or titillating titles. It must be me. This one is no exception. Because I live in Florida I was drawn in by the curiosity. There a few nuggets of interest but nothing earth rattling, you will find that in California along with such assorted goofballs presented here. Much of this was Zzzz material. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Florida has a titillating underbelly that few tourists ever see. Beyond the theme parks and the beaches lies a periphery most residents know about but--out of decorum or discomfort--prefer not to discuss. In Fringe Florida, Lynn Waddell explores the exotic, sensational, and sometimes illicit worlds of the oddest state in the nation. Waddell takes the reader on a colorful journey to meet the most unconventional of Floridians in unbelievable and spectacular places. At Fetish Con, she befriends furries and pony girls. She travels to Cassadaga, the oldest active Spiritualist community in the South, where trained mediums converse with the dead, and to the Holy Land Experience theme park in Orlando, where one can eat a hot dog while watching a reenactment of the Crucifixion. She interviews the founder of the Leather & Lace Motorcycle Club, a Daytona Beach-area grandmother who hosts the club's annual gathering, welcoming scores of lady bikers to camp out on the lawn of her subdivision home. At an Animal Amnesty Day outside Busch Gardens, Waddell meets exotic reptile owners who give up their beloved-but no-longer-manageable pets and others who vie to take home the cast-offs. If you've ever wanted to parade around on a pimped-out swamp buggy amidst a couple thousand beer-swigging mud boggers or fall asleep with a python hissing in your ear, been tempted to bring a Capuchin monkey in a stroller to a Little League game, or contemplated sitting on the beach waiting to be picked up by a UFO but couldn't quite bring yourself to such extremes, Fringe Florida is for you. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)306.09759Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Biography And History North America Southeastern U.S.LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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