{"product_id":"moments-in-time-an-autobiography-sort-of-paperback","title":"Moments in Time - An Autobiography, Sort of - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJack D. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis set of vignettes is, in fact, a dot-to-dot autobiography. It's warm, affectionate, diplomatic, and laced with kindness. In a phrase, a perfect reflection of the man his granddaughters know. And his friends and associates over the years. Now, so can everyone else.\u003c\/strong\u003e - Dr. Jerry Elijah Brown, former head of Auburn University journalism and retired dean and professor emeritus of the University of Montana School of Journalism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoments in Time \u003c\/em\u003eis Jack D. Smith's second book, written at the request of his two granddaughters, Maggie and Claire Smith. His first book, \u003cem\u003eMy Father the Ghost, \u003c\/em\u003ewas published in 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoments in Time \u003c\/em\u003edescribes the author's most hated boyhood farm chore, by order of his dad, milking a stubborn old cow that keeps hitting him upside the head with her cocklebur-matted tail. He delights in the minty scent of plants growing along the shady banks of a fresh water creek - the little stuff that makes for the author's happy young life in his beloved Mount Hope community. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut he also captures the dark valleys of his life, one of them waiting at East Alabama Medical Center on a morning when a doctor would arrive to turn off the life support machines for his wife. As a news reporter, the author invites you to join him in covering a midnight execution in Alabama's electric chair. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese and dozens of other moments in time are written in a \"sitting on the front porch talking\" informality that Grandmother Smith and Aunt Eunice Rucker would have appreciated as they dipped Bruton snuff on the front porch of the author's log house. You will meet some of the people who had an impact on the author's life. Other than family, that lists includes a serial bank robber, a WW II prisoner of war, a man we called Mr. Bill, an angel in the journalism office, and others you will long remember, as will his granddaughters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 8.5 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 26, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49156709515416,"sku":"9781608628025","price":25.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8830\/4024\/files\/OWpVK2JQb1VKeXFqK1BEYzdXcjF2UT09.webp?v=1779731627","url":"https:\/\/thepinkflamingobooks.myshopify.com\/products\/moments-in-time-an-autobiography-sort-of-paperback","provider":"The Pink Flamingo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}