WestWords

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.