APPLETON, Wis. — Where does Culvers source their cheese curds? Where can you go surfing in Wisconsin? Have you ever experienced Gravity Hill?
These wonders and more can be found inside the pages of “Secret Wisconsin: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure.”
Authors Tom Manus and Kristi Flick Manus joined Hayley Tenpas during Focus Fox Valley, to share more about the book. Just about every location was visited by Tom and Kristi, who take you on an unforgettable trip to discover the state’s quirkiness and some of its best kept secrets.
The book takes you all over the state of Wisconsin with each location owning its own unique, interesting and fun story. For example…
- Find out where famous people secretly get turkeys in the basement and where Al Capone let floatplanes land with his illegal booze before he shipped it by truck to Chicago.
- Learn about the state’s two Walls of China and the place where gravity can pull your vehicle uphill.
- Discover why JFK made a deposit in Spooner or how Teddy Roosevelt’s long speech saved his life from an attempted assassination.
- From donuts to whitefish livers, find out where Wisconsin delicacies hide.
Tom and Kristi are freelance travel writers who are already writing and discovering Wisconsin’s unique landscape for their next book! You can follow along with their research here.
Listen to their conversation with Hayley around the 33 minute mark!
