Carrabba: Hardcover, 283 pages

Cherie Carrabba
Won’t Ride Sidesaddle: Texas Tales, Hard Won Sales, and Getting the Show on the Road

Cherie Carrabba is the Erma Bombeck of the West. Her outrageous take on life, livestock, and just about everything will have you laughing until tears pour down your cheeks!

During her years as editor of The Showbox, Cherie Carrabba has chronicled the lives and adventures of the livestock exhibitor as no one ever has or will. This inspiring, upbeat, and humorous collection of stories about life at home and on the road will provide you with opportunities to think about and reflect on your own family experiences. With candor and humor, she brings family, friends, and characters to life on the page, memorializes the passing of some, while uniting readers and characters alike through our similarities.

Won't Ride Sidesaddle will make you laugh and cry and leave you with an appreciation for the individuals who spend their time and money in the belief that, other than Sunday School, there is no better place to raise a child than at livestock shows. Cherie Carrabba was the principal architect of the first junior livestock exhibitor organization in America-the Texas Junior Livestock Association. Armed with an idea, a typewriter, and a work ethic she helped create a niche industry for junior exhibitors and changed the face of livestock exhibition forever. With the help of hundreds of dedicated parents and industry leaders, she played a large part in establishing Texas as the preeminent livestock exhibition state in the country.

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