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

Author: Jack Perkins

Narrator: Jack Perkins

Unabridged: 9 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 03/05/2013

Synopsis

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 inLos Angeleshe 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. 

About Jack Perkins

Jack Perkins continues to be active in his retirement as most people are at the height of their careers. His narration can be heard on videos for Acadia National Park, the Biltmore estate in North Carolina, and the Edison Museum in Ft. Myers, Florida. He contributes a regular column to Venice Magazine and hosts A Gulf Coast Journal with Jack Perkins on WEDU, PBS for western Florida, which is carried by several other PBS affiliates nationwide. Jack is also a respected nature photographer and poet (a “poetographer,” as he describes himself) with several published books to his credit, books that over the years have become more and more an expression of his growing faith. Jack lives today in Florida with Mary Jo, his wife of fifty-three years.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Betsy

This is an autobiography written by Jack Perkins, who, with his wife Mary Jo, decide to leave the life of privilege behind and move to an island in Maine. Everyone they know think they are crazy, but the Perkins are thrilled at the adventure of it and to live more intentionally with God. The name of......more

Goodreads review by Faith

I if the press discourages or encourages you, you should read this book, loved the perspective.......more

Goodreads review by Mediaman

Unsatisfying strange mixture of three very different topics that are blended ineffectively. The bulk of the book is about Perkins deciding to give up his career and move to a tiny "island" in Maine (it's only an island when the tide comes in), and to be honest that's the least interesting part of th......more

Goodreads review by bLueRLyN

Mr. Perkins certainly had a charmed life with all that he wanted seemingly being served up to him. It is a life of serendipitous chain of events one after another. I felt compelled to read the book essentially because of my desire to one day be able to live off the grid. On top of that I find it rat......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

I bought this on sale on a remainder shelf, intrigued by the title and the fact that is was inexpensive. Mr. Perkins is a very good writer, and he has had a very interesting life as a journalist and on the slice of island in the midst of Arcadia National Park he bought with his wife. I think I would......more

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