A Century of Progress

About the Book

As a century of progress unfolded, this ninety-five-year-old author witnessed everything from mud roads to a Mars landing. His memoirs recount the amusing, frightening, and fascinating moments of a distinctive life. He remembers the time he and a young friend “relieved a truck of two melons,” only to drop one while the owner looked on. Later, he recalls World War II as a merchant marine, during which he “watched the torpedoes come right at us and waited for the explosion.” After the war, he revisits life as a newly hired engineer for a government organization. The management personnel asked what he would need to fire up a locomotive after three months of failed attempts. Is he now a registered melon thief? What about those torpedoes? And how did he succeed where many others had failed? Come hear the rest of these delightful stories.

About the Author

Warren Spickelmier is a veteran of World War II and a licensed professional engineer who has worked for more than twenty years in his field. He worked in design and construction for a government organization and spent two of those years supervising the western United States for a major communications company. He was happily married to his late wife for sixty-three years and has two children, three grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.