The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 4th, 2003
From Purgatory to Tranquility, a search for odd towns
Names weird, but writer finds people are real
By SHERRY STRIPLING Seattle Times
Sunday, May 4, 2003
It's a long way from Scratch Ankle, Ala., to Good Grief, Idaho; from Stinking Point, Va., to Yum Yum, Tenn.; from Dynamite, Wash., to Tranquility, Calif.
But stopping to take pictures along the way, writer Gary Gladstone reports that meeting the people who lived there put the fun back into his flagging career as a freelance photographer. The result is "Passing Gas: And Other Towns Along the American Highway" (Ten Speed Press, $19.95), so...
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