WestWords: Observations from the Desk of a Small-Town Newspaper Publisher (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781434392244)

WestWords is a collection of columns by Dennis West that have appeared in The Beacon, a newspaper that covers the Walworth County, Wisconsin, area. The essays, most of which are humorous, contain a great deal of information, trivia and (non-caloric) food for thought. Among the subjects treated in WestWords are: - Pogo, the Old English Sheep Dog who was in the running for world's dumbest canine - The author's mother, a frustrated nurse who painfully injected her children with penicillin the consistency of toothpaste every time they sneezed - A musical career that ended when the author took a shot at playing drum major instead of his sousaphone and couldn't keep 100 University of Illinois band members from marching through a hedge - A Roman used-chariot salesman who invented a truth serum - plus essays about language misuse, TV commercials, heavy-metal music and much more. Add a generous helping of trivia and you have a humorously entertaining, informative and thought-provoking collection by award-winning journalist Dennis West, publisher and editor of a wildly popular small-town newspaper called The Beacon.

Author: Dennis West
ISBN-10: 1434392244
ISBN-13: 9781434392244
Publisher: Authorhouse
Language: English
Published: 09/21/2008
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d