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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 and One-Log Loads: Memories of a Pioneer Truck Driver by Frank White 4.21 avg rating — 24 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 4.20 avg rating — 1,289 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 4.15 avg rating — 13,264 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 4.05 avg rating — 645 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
4	Educated by Tara Westover (Goodreads Author) 4.46 avg rating — 1,972,735 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
6	Thy Hand, Great Anarch! India, 1921-1952 by Nirad C. Chaudhuri 4.18 avg rating — 72 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
7	Mary Wesley Omnibus: Jumping the Queue / The Camomile Lawn / Harnessing Peacocks by Mary Wesley 4.48 avg rating — 29 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