{"id":5116,"date":"2019-02-21T09:59:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.mechadigital.net\/?p=5116"},"modified":"2021-08-26T20:37:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:37:51","slug":"the-pilots-bookshelf-225-the-doughnut-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/the-pilots-bookshelf-225-the-doughnut-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pilot’s Bookshelf: #225, “The Doughnut Boy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years ago, Mike Dennis shared his philosophy of writing with me.\u00a0 It seems he felt the main reason for telling a story was to bring forth one from the listener or reader.\u00a0At first, that seemed foreign to me, but with time I realized that it is a noble and worthwhile pursuit.\u00a0 Mike Dennis has \u201cput his money where his mouth is\u201d with \u201cThe Doughnut Boy\u201d.\u00a0 It is the result of his own search for the story of his father\u2019s life, a story that was a mystery to him until years of research gradually exposed an amazing life.\u00a0With the help of research assistant, Gayle Crowder, he\u2019s told a fascinating story, not only of his father\u2019s adventurous life, but he\u2019s also woven his own youth into it along with tales of other relatives and acquaintances.\u00a0 In this wonderful book, we will learn about the \u201cPoulsbo Boat\u201d and inventions that served as developmental elements to Dennis\u2019 own growth as an inventor and engineer and finally to his own founding of Oregon Aero.<\/h3>\n
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Mike Dennis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With his father as the central character, Mike Dennis has woven an amazing group of stories into \u201cThe Doughnut Boy\u201d.\u00a0 With \u201cThe Doughnut Boy\u201d, Mike Dennis joins the ranks of such great writers as Robert Louis Taylor (\u201cThe Travels of Jamie McPheeters\u201d) and Rinker Buck (\u201cFlight of Passage\u201d).\u00a0 True to the philosophy which is essential to his writing, he has managed to remind us of the adventures of our own youth.\u00a0 Perhaps his telling of the stories of he and his father will elicit some of his readers to remember their own stories.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps that was what he had in mind the whole time.<\/h3>\n

Brian Lansburgh<\/h3>\n

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A few years ago, Mike Dennis shared his philosophy of writing with me.\u00a0 It seems he felt the main reason for telling a story was to bring forth one from the listener or reader.\u00a0At first, that seemed foreign to me, but with time I realized that it is a noble and worthwhile pursuit.\u00a0 Mike Dennis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}