Charles Hillingers America, Charles Hillinger
Charles Hillingers America, Charles Hillinger
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Charles Hillingers America
People and Places in All 50 States

Author: Charles Hillinger

Narrator: Dennis McKee

Unabridged: 10 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007

Categories: Nonfiction


Synopsis

This collection is the fruit of Hillinger's nearly fortysix years of a dream job spent traveling the United States as a feature writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Times. The result was 6,000 human and general interest stories. He traveled, came home to write, and hit the road again.In Charles Hillinger's America, you will learn about Thomas Edisons first motion picture studio, built in New Jersey; about the only surviving wooden whaling ship, in Connecticut; about the place in West Virginia where someone actually built a mountain out of a molehill; about the hauntingly mysterious mural in Utah known as the Great Gallery; about why Minnesota is the looniest state in the lower 48, and why firemen from America beat a steady path to Ponce, Puerto Rico.

About Charles Hillinger

Charles Hillinger, a graduate of UCLA, roamed California, America, and the world for forty-five years writing some six thousand human-interest stories for the Los Angeles Times. His features and column were syndicated in more than six hundred newspapers. He is one of the creators of the television show Real People. He and his wife live in Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bryan

27 of 75 for 2015. What a great book to listen to while driving around exploring the country on your own. Hillinger traveled to all 50 states plus Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and, of course, DC, and met and talked with people everywhere he went. This is the book where you learn about Delaware's......more