Joe McHugh is a professional storyteller, public radio producer, playwright, museum director, festival organizer, old-time fiddler, educational consultant, and home-grown philosopher. He regularly lectures on the art and practice of storytelling in the electronic age and has written two collections of folktales and humor and an illustrated children's book about the early days of aviation.As a young man in 1970, Joe traveled to the mountains of West Virginia where he purchased an eighty-acre farm and set about raising organic vegetables and draft horses. Soon afterwards, he got into a dispute with the local power company and lived for the next four years without electricity. Ever since he has been fascinated with the conflict between the benefits of technology and the needs of the human soul. Kilowatt is his first novel.Visit his websites: www.readkilowatt.comwww.americanfamilystories.orgwww.joemchugh.info