If you read the first "NUCKED! 2 - More Misadventures with the IDORA PARK EXPERIENCE NINJAS", then you know you are in for a wild ride as you join the Ameys and their Knucklehead Ninja, "Nuck" on more hilarious misadventures hunting down Idora Park Artifacts. You'll meet some new outrageous characters and encounter some far-fetched situations that may even be true. After all, this is a memoir... Sort of.
If you didn't read the first "NUCKED!" book, then you will have a lot of questions that can't begin to be answered in these few paragraphs but here are the basics:
- Idora Park was an amusement park in Youngstown, Ohio (1899 - 1984). It died as a result of injuries sustained in a devastating fire and from complications of a crashed Rust-Belt economy.
- For about 30 years the Ameys collected artifacts from Idora Park. What started with small inconsequential items morphed into a mission to save whatever they could find from Idora Park, regardless of where they had to travel to or what they had to go through to get it... Well, almost.
- In 2012 they began sharing their stories adventures on social media and have since amassed a following of more than 20,000 people who follow their misadventures online.
- Along the way the Ameys acquired a 3' - 3" broken-English speaking knucklehead ninja they nicknamed Nuck (short for Knucklehead), and their misadventures took on a new level of hilariousness.
- In April 2014, 30 years after the fire that took down idora Park, they Amey's opened their collection to the public and began The Idora Park Experience.
- In 2019 they wrote "LOST IDORA PARK" (Arcadia Press) and in 2021 they wrote and publishes "NUCKED! Misadventures with the IDORA PARK EXPERIENCE NINJAS" which tells the stories of their Misadventures... with much embellishment and hilarity. Each story is told in a three part "He Said - She Said - Lesson Learned" format that will bring you right along with them on the roller coaster ride they call The Idora Park Experience.
- In 2023 .... comes the sequel... "NUCKED! 2"