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For 25 years, millions of Americans watched Jack port Perkins on NBC News as a correspondent, commentator, and anchorman. People were familiar with his face, his bearing, and his wealthy, reassuring bass. Yet at the age of 52 and at the height of his career, Jack Perkins disappeared from the public eye and changed with his partner, Mary Jo, to a bare-necessities cabin on an uninhabited island from the coast of Maine. This isolated home they came up to call Moosewood was the setting for Jack port and Mary Jo's religious awakening. In the active years of Jack's career in Los Angeles he hadn't sensed the necessity for God. Within their new, noiseless, and difficult life, though, he commenced to rethink everything he thought he knew. For 13 years they endured (and discovered to enjoy) snowbound winters, shuttling products from the mainland, evaluating themselves and their relationship, and finding the rewards of the close-to-nature life, acknowledging that the side guiding their blessed new lives was the side of the gracious God who knew them a long time before they recognized him....
