Kurt Vonnegut

[TheoELind]

I was reading Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Hocus Pocus, last night and I came across this interesting paragraph: "He had grown up in Shelby, Wisconsin, where practically everybody, including grandmothers, could ride a unicycle. The thing was, a circus had gone broke while playing Shelby 60 years earlier and had abandoned a lot of its equipment, including several unicycles. So more and more people there learned how to ride them, and ordered more unicycles for themselves and their families. So Shelby became and remains today, so far as I know, the Unicycling Capital of the World” (p. 157).

Is there any truth to this? It’s amusing either way…

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

That's really neat.
I havn't read that one yet.
It's on my read list now!

[GILD]

I found this link thr (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-5937.html)u google.

[TheoELind]

Wow, it looks as if I plagiarized the original post. Well still, it's a nice story. Thank you.

[johnfoss]

Fiction, my boy. He may have gotten the idea from a visit to, or reading about Baraboo and the Circus World Museum there. Baraboo used to be the winter quarters for Ringling Bros. and several other circuses, apparently. At some point they figured out winter was better spent down in Florida...