When a veteran Washington journalist moved to Kansas, he met a new neighbor who was more than a century old.
Thus armored, Charlie\'s sense of adventure carried him on an epic journey across the continent, and later found him swinging across bandstands of the Jazz Age, racing aboard ambulances through Depression-era gangster wars, improvising techniques for early open-heart surgery, and cruising the Amazon as a guest of Peru\'s president..
When a shocking tragedy interrupted his idyllic boyhood, Charlie mastered survival strategies that reflect thousands of years of human wisdom.
Born before radio, Charlie lived long enough to use a smartphone.
Charlie White was no ordinary neighbor.
Little did he know that he was beginning a long friendship -- and a profound lesson in the meaning of life.
When a veteran Washington journalist moved to Kansas, he met a new neighbor who was more than a century old
