On May 13, 1972, fourteen-year-old Jeffery Jones climbed into a small Cessna on a rural Michigan drop zone prepared to do something most people never will... step into open air on purpose. Surrounded by his brother, uncles, a no-nonsense jumpmaster, and a sharp-witted grandmother who wielded a sun dress as both threat and motivation, he recounts his first parachute jump with humor, humility, and hard-earned perspective.
First Jump Jitters by Jeffery Jones is a memoir of courage found not in bravado, but in commitment, of fear confronted, tradition upheld, and the quiet moment when a boy earns his place among men.
"As I tilted my head way back into what I believed was a fantastic arch, I caught sight of the rear of the plane moving away. For a brief, floating moment, I could see Charlie leaning halfway out the door, as if he might jump after me. It seemed odd and confusing to me. I would find out later why he took that posture."
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Orphaned young and raised by circumstance rather than family, she built a steady life behind the counter of Willet’s Marine and Stationery, where sailors came for charts, instruments, and the quiet competence she carried with her.
“Rebecca Harker – The Quiet Harbor” tells the story of the woman who became the center of Elias Harker’s world, and the harbor he would spend the rest of his life remembering.
"Her parents died within the same hard year. First her mother in late winter, from a fever that settled in the lungs and would not loosen its hold, then her father the following autumn when a wagon overturned on a rutted road outside of town and pinned him beneath its weight. There were no sisters to take her in, no married brother with a spare room, no kindly aunt waiting in the country."
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