"Whats Going On?" Stories of Life

By Greg Lopez and Editor Lopez, Greg, Kathleen Bohland

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965469506
• ISBN13: 9780965469500
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Bohland Publishing Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A delightful collection of stories about every day people.

This book is a wonderful collection of stories written by a talented man, who was killed in a hit and run car crash. A man who, prior to his death was a newspaper columnist with a great following. A man who wrote about everyday people and could make you laugh or cry. A man whose columns you can relate to. This is a book that makes an outstanding gift for any adult. It is a book that can be picked up and started in the beginning middle and end. It is a book that anyone can find pleasure in, because it covers such a wide range of subjects. I have given this book as a gift to many different people and they have all thanked me. Many went on to purchase it for others. You will not go wrong with this book.

Extraordinary stories about ordinary people.

"Mr. Francher: The place to start, I think, is the night Robert Mendoza walked into Papa Joe's with his ear in his stomach. I was there." So begins Greg Lopez's letter to the Detroit News editor asking for a job. It begins the collection of columns written by Lopez before he was killed at age 35 by a hit-and-run driver. He had the eye and ear of the best reporters. "Just after dawn Monday, the warriors rode the path of Crazy Horse. ...For the first time since Custer was killed here June 25, 1876, all the tribes who were at the battle had been invited back." He goes on to tell us that 800 Lakota set up tents and tepees in the field next to "Montana's Largest Casino." "'The casino...had power,' Danny Two Horse said. 'The casino reminds us we still must be on guard against powers that try to destroy our ways.' Burton Barger, 37, goes to the montains to hunt for eagle feathers, but he got the ones he wore in his hair in a trade for two snow tires. 'It is part of our culture to barter, too.'" This collection is compelling. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. And you'll be glad you did both.