Have you ever heard someone say, “I thought I would never get old enough to get my driver’s license but once I had it, man has time flown?” While researching the history of our Coats area at The Daily Record Library, we quickly became aware of passage of time in a new light that I have difficulty in putting that feeling into words. It was like 1740, 1776, 1855, 1905 were not that terribly long ago, but in reality, they were.