From, the Tunchi diaries:


We are traveling on the Mother Road now, over the memories of everyone before us who took this very same route. We are heading towards another town whose magical name now escapes me, a town where anything can happen and everything does happen.
 
I'm speeding away from midnight, letting the road wash clean my old and dusty soul. With each mile we take and leave behind, I can feel the heaviness dropping off of me. The road will always be my home.


 


While Grunge music made its first forays onto the airwaves, political-correctness affected both the educational curriculum and media newspeak. Going into 1992, it was hard to imagine a more unlikely phenomena than the return of a Freak Show.
 
The average person - inherently curious - has always been attracted to Human Oddities and any unusual feats performed by humans. Indeed, the exhibition of Human Oddities goes back to the start of recorded history.
 
During the 18th century, P.T. Barnum rode to fame and fortune on the wave of interest in Human Oddities: his American Museum in New York City became a world-renowned institution. That museum's success initiated y years of copycat Dime Museums across North America, which reached their peak during the 1880s and 1890s. The main attraction of most Dime Museums was the Freak Show, and it was the Human Oddities - often hyped science - that were the stars of the Freak Show.


 

 

 


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