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"Somehow, hearing the stories of the 1920s and ‘30s from someone still alive makes them more real, like a hand reaching out from the past." Jan de Grass, Coast Reporter. Reading Milk Spills and One-log Loads, 99-year-old Frank White's memoir of hellraising in the early 20th C., is a unique experience in time-travel. It gets me wondering if anyone else has reached back as far as he has done in this, his first book, and if so, if maybe there is an undiscovered sub-genre of writers who personally bear witness to great expanses of time. Can anyone beat 99 years? Or come close?

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1	Milk Spills One-Log Loads: Memories of a Pioneer Truck Driver by Frank White 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings score: 300, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
1	Harry's Last Stand: How the World My Generation Built is Falling Down, and What We Can Do to Save It by Harry Leslie Smith 4.22 avg rating — 1,211 ratings score: 300, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	...And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer 4.14 avg rating — 12,644 ratings score: 197, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	This Old Man: All in Pieces by Roger Angell 4.01 avg rating — 495 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Thy Hand, Great Anarch! India, 1921-1952 by Nirad C. Chaudhuri 4.20 avg rating — 45 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Mary Wesley Omnibus: Jumping the Queue, Camomile Lawn, Harnessing Peacocks by Mary Wesley 4.50 avg rating — 24 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars