Milk Spills and One-Log Loads

Milk Spills and One-Log Loads

Author: Frank White

Publisher:

Published: 2015-09

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781550177343

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Frank White started writing the story of his life as a pioneer BC truck driver in 1974 when he was only sixty. His boisterous yarn in Raincoast Chronicles about wrangling tiny trucks overloaded with huge logs down steep mountains with no brakes won the Canadian Media Club award for Best Magazine Feature and was reprinted so many times everyone urged him to write more. He started in his spare time but kept having so many new adventures he didn't finish until 2013--his hundredth year. Although Frank set out to tell the story of his life in transportation, from the horse and buggy age to trucking in the BC freighting and logging industries, Milk Spills & One-Log Loads is much more than that. Just as absorbing as his accounts of obstreperous men wrestling big timber are his memories of becoming his family's designated driver at age twelve; of his grandfather, who kept the bible on a pulpit in the living room and never passed it without stopping to preach; of the stiff-necked farmers who hitched rides to Vancouver so they could take in the sinful delights of skid row; of collisions with streetcars and tsunamis of spilled milk; of the hysteria that gripped the BC coast after Pearl Harbor; of starting married life with a family of ten pigs; and romantic interludes exploring idyllic islands and living off clams. Milk Spills & One-Log Loads has all the hair-raising road tales one could ask for, but it is a moving story of personal growth, a vivid account of life as working people lived it on Canada's west coast during the rough-and-tumble years of the early twentieth century.


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Download or read book Milk Spills and One-Log Loads written by Frank White and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank White started writing the story of his life as a pioneer BC truck driver in 1974 when he was only sixty. His boisterous yarn in Raincoast Chronicles about wrangling tiny trucks overloaded with huge logs down steep mountains with no brakes won the Canadian Media Club award for Best Magazine Feature and was reprinted so many times everyone urged him to write more. He started in his spare time but kept having so many new adventures he didn't finish until 2013--his hundredth year. Although Frank set out to tell the story of his life in transportation, from the horse and buggy age to trucking in the BC freighting and logging industries, Milk Spills & One-Log Loads is much more than that. Just as absorbing as his accounts of obstreperous men wrestling big timber are his memories of becoming his family's designated driver at age twelve; of his grandfather, who kept the bible on a pulpit in the living room and never passed it without stopping to preach; of the stiff-necked farmers who hitched rides to Vancouver so they could take in the sinful delights of skid row; of collisions with streetcars and tsunamis of spilled milk; of the hysteria that gripped the BC coast after Pearl Harbor; of starting married life with a family of ten pigs; and romantic interludes exploring idyllic islands and living off clams. Milk Spills & One-Log Loads has all the hair-raising road tales one could ask for, but it is a moving story of personal growth, a vivid account of life as working people lived it on Canada's west coast during the rough-and-tumble years of the early twentieth century.

Milk Spills & One-log Loads

Milk Spills & One-log Loads

Author: Frank White

Publisher: Harbour Publishing Company

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 9781550176223

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Recounts the author's life and experiences in transportation, chronicling the growth of the trucking industry in British Columbia.


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Download or read book Milk Spills & One-log Loads written by Frank White and published by Harbour Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the author's life and experiences in transportation, chronicling the growth of the trucking industry in British Columbia.

Here on the Coast

Here on the Coast

Author: Howard White

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

Published: 2021-03-27

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 155017925X

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No matter where people live on the BC coast, says Howard White, they have certain shared experiences: frustration with rain and ferries, familiarity with gumboots, bumbershoots, seagull droppings and barnacles in the wrong places. But each little community clings to its own sense of uniqueness and considers itself the true West Coast. As a case in point, White offers fifty funny sketches of life as he has come to know it in sixty-odd years of living along that hundred-mile stretch of monsoon-prone shoreline ironically known as the Sunshine Coast. Included is what must be one of the most admiring testaments ever written about the virtues of the old-time outhouse; fond remembrances of saltwater fishing when a bad day meant you didn’t hook something in twenty minutes; and explorers who stooped to naming islands after favourite racehorses. We also meet a “bouquet of characters,” including a lyrical logger known as Pete the Poet; a diabolical seagoing remittance man; the saintly Quaker philosopher Hubert Evans and White’s barrier-busting Aunt Jean who taught him the advantages of “scientifically enlarging the truth.” Along with accounts of waste disposal wars and wry observations on modern technology, Here On the Coast offers a West Coast counterpart to such favourites as Letters From Wingfield Farm and Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.


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Download or read book Here on the Coast written by Howard White and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter where people live on the BC coast, says Howard White, they have certain shared experiences: frustration with rain and ferries, familiarity with gumboots, bumbershoots, seagull droppings and barnacles in the wrong places. But each little community clings to its own sense of uniqueness and considers itself the true West Coast. As a case in point, White offers fifty funny sketches of life as he has come to know it in sixty-odd years of living along that hundred-mile stretch of monsoon-prone shoreline ironically known as the Sunshine Coast. Included is what must be one of the most admiring testaments ever written about the virtues of the old-time outhouse; fond remembrances of saltwater fishing when a bad day meant you didn’t hook something in twenty minutes; and explorers who stooped to naming islands after favourite racehorses. We also meet a “bouquet of characters,” including a lyrical logger known as Pete the Poet; a diabolical seagoing remittance man; the saintly Quaker philosopher Hubert Evans and White’s barrier-busting Aunt Jean who taught him the advantages of “scientifically enlarging the truth.” Along with accounts of waste disposal wars and wry observations on modern technology, Here On the Coast offers a West Coast counterpart to such favourites as Letters From Wingfield Farm and Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.

That Went By Fast

That Went By Fast

Author: Frank White

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

Published: 2014-10-25

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1550176692

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Ex-logger and gas station owner Frank White says living to the age of one hundred is not all it’s cracked up to be but it has some plusses. When he trundles down to the local shopping centre in Pender Harbour pretty girls hug him and everybody in town seems to be glad he’s lived another day. But celebrity has its drawbacks—when he was only fifty and still had most of his marbles, people only wanted to know what was wrong with their car. But “Now that everything is starting to get hazy, they’re not satisfied unless I can tell them the meaning of life.” In this second memoir in two years, centenarian White sifts through his lengthy adventures trying to live up to those expectations of wisdom before deciding “Life just is.” But what a wild ride he takes us on! Born at the start of the First World War and maturing during the Great Depression, he worked variously as a pioneer freight hauler, pioneer truck logger, camp owner, garment presser, boat builder, home builder, excavating contractor, garage mechanic and waterworks operator, among other things. Then in later life he married the sophisticated and well-connected New Yorker writer Edith Iglauer and started a totally different way of life consisting of opera, celebrity dinners and world travel. His ironic observations on the differences between the two worlds make for fascinating and frequently hilarious reading.


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Download or read book That Went By Fast written by Frank White and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ex-logger and gas station owner Frank White says living to the age of one hundred is not all it’s cracked up to be but it has some plusses. When he trundles down to the local shopping centre in Pender Harbour pretty girls hug him and everybody in town seems to be glad he’s lived another day. But celebrity has its drawbacks—when he was only fifty and still had most of his marbles, people only wanted to know what was wrong with their car. But “Now that everything is starting to get hazy, they’re not satisfied unless I can tell them the meaning of life.” In this second memoir in two years, centenarian White sifts through his lengthy adventures trying to live up to those expectations of wisdom before deciding “Life just is.” But what a wild ride he takes us on! Born at the start of the First World War and maturing during the Great Depression, he worked variously as a pioneer freight hauler, pioneer truck logger, camp owner, garment presser, boat builder, home builder, excavating contractor, garage mechanic and waterworks operator, among other things. Then in later life he married the sophisticated and well-connected New Yorker writer Edith Iglauer and started a totally different way of life consisting of opera, celebrity dinners and world travel. His ironic observations on the differences between the two worlds make for fascinating and frequently hilarious reading.

Don't Spill the Milk!

Don't Spill the Milk!

Author: Stephen Davies

Publisher: Andersen Press USA

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 1467764469

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Over the uppy downy dunes, across the dark, wide river and up the steep, steep mountain, Penda lovingly carries a bowl of milk to her father in the grasslands. But will she manage to get it there without spilling a single drop?


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Download or read book Don't Spill the Milk! written by Stephen Davies and published by Andersen Press USA. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the uppy downy dunes, across the dark, wide river and up the steep, steep mountain, Penda lovingly carries a bowl of milk to her father in the grasslands. But will she manage to get it there without spilling a single drop?

The Lost Coast

The Lost Coast

Author: Tim Bowling

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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An impassioned lament for the home Bowling once knew and for the river and creatures that continue to haunt his imagination.


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Download or read book The Lost Coast written by Tim Bowling and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned lament for the home Bowling once knew and for the river and creatures that continue to haunt his imagination.

Timber Growing and Logging Practice in the Southern Appalachian Region

Timber Growing and Logging Practice in the Southern Appalachian Region

Author: Earl Hazeltine Frothingham

Publisher:

Published: 1931

Total Pages: 1142

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book Timber Growing and Logging Practice in the Southern Appalachian Region written by Earl Hazeltine Frothingham and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spilled Milk

Spilled Milk

Author: K. L. Randis

Publisher:

Published: 2013-06-07

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 9780615835600

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Based on a true story, Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call about the escalating brutality in her home. When Social Services jeopardize her safety, condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding. In her pursuit for safety and justice Brooke battles a broken system that pushes to keep her father in the home. When jury members and a love interest congregate to inspire her to fight, she risks losing the support of family and comes to the realization that some people simply do not want to be saved. "Beautifully written, hauntingly real, Spilled Milk is a must read for any young adult today." - F.P Lione, Author


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Download or read book Spilled Milk written by K. L. Randis and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story, Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call about the escalating brutality in her home. When Social Services jeopardize her safety, condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding. In her pursuit for safety and justice Brooke battles a broken system that pushes to keep her father in the home. When jury members and a love interest congregate to inspire her to fight, she risks losing the support of family and comes to the realization that some people simply do not want to be saved. "Beautifully written, hauntingly real, Spilled Milk is a must read for any young adult today." - F.P Lione, Author

It Looked Like Spilt Milk

It Looked Like Spilt Milk

Author: Charles G. Shaw

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1988-06-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0064431592

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The white shape silhouetted against a blue background changes on every page.Is it a rabbit, a bird, or just spilt milk? Children are kept guessing until the surprise ending -- and will be encouraged to improvise similar games of their own.


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Download or read book It Looked Like Spilt Milk written by Charles G. Shaw and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1988-06-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The white shape silhouetted against a blue background changes on every page.Is it a rabbit, a bird, or just spilt milk? Children are kept guessing until the surprise ending -- and will be encouraged to improvise similar games of their own.

Hoard's Dairyman

Hoard's Dairyman

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1925

Total Pages: 796

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book Hoard's Dairyman written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: