I posed nude for a calendar wearing nothing but my accordion...
I like to call the following kinds of things 'sideways fame' because they're not quite the same as 'full-on' fame...
I ran the sound board for about one third of a Peter Rowan concert.
I was the first person to officially collect, identify, and catalogue a specimen of a Swamp Rose Mallow (Hybiscus Palustris) in the history of the state of Oklahoma.
The artist who did the Elvis stamp (remember the Elvis stamp?) has a pen an ink drawing of mine hanging in his home.
I don't know if they're still there, but for years, the Tulsa Zoo had 'Native American artifacts' that I had actually either made, or artificially aged, and were displaying them in part of their museum as the 'real thing'.