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…