Attractions

Tune in to see actor Jeff Daniels as a Buckless Yooper. In addition, learn about a professional baseball team’s mascot called Mr. Celery, and the Museum of Funeral Customs that has one focus — death.

Business

Ever drink an okra martini or lather up with a luxury soap named after the lowly boll weevil? Need live crickets – fast? Click here to find out more about these and other businesses that offer unusual products and services!

Dining

Pass the napkins, please. You can get a fried double bologna burger, or try a pig sandwich, green chili slopper or coffee potato ice cream. Wash everything down with a white birch beer from the Hall of Foam.

Oddities

Time out: A Division I college football game actually had a final score of 222-0. Also, somebody had to invent Mother’s Day, and a city called Skullbone got its name from hosting bare-knuckle boxing matches.

Festivals

What’s that smell? Be sure to attend a celebration that features outhouse races, then bring a breath mint to the annual Garlic Festival. In addition, applaud the lucky and deserving winner of the Slug Queen Pageant.

Helping Out at Ground Zero
Bella served as a model for Kappler Safety Group’s research and development staff in Guntersville, Ala., who designed the protective boots worn by the rescue dogs at the World Trade Center site.

Guntersville, Ala., is 2,000 miles from New York City, but the two communities shared a bond after Sept. 11.

Shortly after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, a business in New York’s Garment District asked Kappler Safety Group in Guntersville to provide protective boots – not for people, but for dogs helping in the search and rescue effort at Ground Zero.

The order was a challenge for the Guntersville company because the protective footwear it normally makes shields hunting dogs from briar patches. The dogs in New York City needed boots that would repel intense heat and guard against glass, sharp metal and jagged concrete.

"Our research team quickly put together a boot made from PVI Kevlar fabric," says Todd Carroll, senior engineer at Kappler. "We shipped a dozen sets to New York City on Sept. 14, and after a slight design modification, we shipped another dozen on Sept. 19."