{"product_id":"cripple-joe-stories-from-my-daddy-9781624911293","title":"Cripple Joe: Stories from My Daddy","description":"Donald Davis was a young United Methodist minister when the telephone rang one morning. \"It's your daddy,\" the caller said, \"Mama just couldn't get him awake this morning. He is gone.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A million questions about him began to line themselves up in my mind.\" Davis writes. \"Where did he go to high school? I did not know.\" Did he get any education behind that? What were his early jobs, and where did he live then? I was now only twenty-eight, my father was dead, and I had been to young and immature to know to ask t=for the stories that would have filled out his life for me.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The surprise of a lifetime came when he called home and his recently departed father picked up the phone: \"Hello! This is Joe Davis. What can I do for you today?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e That case of mistaken identity changed Donald Davis's outlook on the value of family and the need for story gathering. In the twenty-two years until his father's second death, he rarely let an opportunity pass to collect and cherish the stories of his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCripple Joe\u003c\/i\u003e is the happy result. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Davis tells how his father and an African-American hospital orderly quietly broke down racial barriers in their small mountain town. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He tells how his father employed his humane brand of justice on an eager young chemist whose experiments veered into manufacturing gunpowder, on sons who nearly burned a barn, and on teenagers who organized a disastrous coed camping trip. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And best of all, he tells how Joe Davis--a man known as \"Banker Joe\" for his work in the loan department but to a select few as \"Cripple Joe\"--turned a gruesome accident into an opportunity that broadened his world and that of his son.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Inc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781624911293\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.00d","brand":"Donald Davis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45000479310005,"sku":"9781624911293","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_566a577d-e182-4630-9d01-ce2a244f372f.jpg?v=1736264944","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/cripple-joe-stories-from-my-daddy-9781624911293","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}