An expert panel chose small towns with populations under 25,000 residents, and let their readers vote on which was the best, leading to Put-in-Bay being ranked 6th.
According to the captain, an enormous serpent had started thrashing around near his boat, having been startled by the gunshots. He reported that the creature was huge—easily over 5 meters long
I was just made aware that the original film that was released for the book actually mentioned a Great Lake. Apparently, at the time, Lake Erie was in terrible condition and highly polluted, which prompted the Lorax line