Finding Moosewood, Finding God: What Happened When a TV Newsman Abandoned His Career for Life on an Island

ISBN-13: 9780310318705 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str.

Jack Perkins

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For twenty-five years, millions of Americans watched Jack Perkins on NBC News as a correspondent, commentator, and anchorman. People were familiar with his face, his bearing, and his rich, reassuring bass. Yet at the age of fifty-two and at the height of his career, Jack Perkins disappeared from the public eye and moved with his wife, Mary Jo, to a bare-necessities cabin on an uninhabited island off the coast ofMaine. This isolated home they came to call Moosewood was the setting for Jack and Mary Jo's spiritual awakening. In the busy years of Jack's career in Los Angeles he hadn't felt the need for God. In their new, quiet, and difficult life, though, he began to rethink everything he thought he knew. For thirteen years they endured--and learned to enjoy--snowbound winters, shuttling supplies from the mainland, testing themselves and their marriage, and discovering the rewards of a close-to-nature life, acknowledging that the hand guiding their blessed new lives was the hand of a gracious God who knew them long before they acknowledged him. This rich memoir also contains a photo insert.

Finding Moosewood, Finding God is the poignant memoir of Jack Perkins---an accomplished TV and radio veteran with a television presence familiar to millions of viewers---who cast off a shallow public lifestyle in order to seek out a deeper, more meaningful and privately spiritual life. This rich memoir also contains a photo insert.