The Badgy Book
category: collection, travel, author:Diane West et al
original copyright 1998Agamedes' opinion: valuable!
Not much that I can really say about this book... since I didn't read it.We were driving north from Perth and stopped for a break at Badgingarra. Nothing much there but all we wanted was a break from driving. All I knew about Badgingarra was, that my brother lived and worked on a farm in the area, many years ago.
We stopped in the shop. Only one shop in town, as far as we could see. So we stopped there. Ordered coffees and cake...
... And saw, The Badgy Book.
That, I said, looks interesting... Well, interesting to my brother, anyway. The book is a collection of stories and anecdotes. Stories of the development and growth and people of the Badgingarra area. It's been perhaps thirty years since my brother lived here, he does keep in touch with friends from the area, he may know some of the people writing and being written about.
Diane West... the first of several authors... Surely my brother knows Diane West?! I'm sure I've heard the name.
Diane West? I say to the woman in the shop. I think that my brother knows her...
Diane died, a few years ago, replies the woman.
Oh.
We bought the book, we drank, snacked and relaxed. Walked through the nearby Vern Westbrook Walk -- very interesting -- and carried on driving.
This is the sort of book that every town, village, association, interest group... should write.
