All across America there are family stories yearning to be told. Some are hidden in attics or garages among faded newspaper articles and photographs, letters and diaries; others are captured in high school and college yearbooks or in company histories; still others remain unrecorded in the hearts and minds of family members, many who feel the need to record the family history, but lack the motivation or the model to proceed. The story of Warder Page as shared by his son Wayne in the entertaining and enlightening family story "A Journey Through the Twentieth Century" may be the prescription needed to jump start aspiring story tellers.

Wayne J. Page lists himself as co-author of this fine family story, an undertaking done with empathy while remaining neutral in his observations regarding his father and other relatives. Wayne does an admirable job in avoiding the temptation to insert his own interpretation of events that his father lived through, and leaves the facts speak to the occasion at hand. Sprinkled throughout the memoir are well preserved photos, memorabilia, advertisements and hand-written letters. The reader can easily follow the life of a young Warder Page who lived from 1900 to 1995, following the excitement of a young boy growing to manhood to an elderly gentleman facing the end of life – it’s all there….the disappointments, the joys, the ‘everydayness of living’ in the most recorded and studied century in the history of mankind.

A Journey Through the Twentieth Century is a must-read for those who aspire to tell their own family stories, or for amateur historians who desire to add to their repertoire of Americana. Congratulations, Wayne on a story well told! - Les Coalson, author of "Sever The Darkness" and "The Color of Blood" (to be published in early 2008).