{"product_id":"true-faith-true-light-the-devotional-art-of-ed-stilley-9781557286819","title":"True Faith, True Light: The Devotional Art of Ed Stilley","description":"In 1979, Ed Stilley was leading a simple life as a farmer and singer of religious hymns in Hogscald Hollow, a tiny Ozark community south of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Life was filled with hard work and making do for Ed, his wife Eliza, and their five children, who lived in many ways as if the second half of the twentieth century had never happened. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But one day Ed's life was permanently altered. While plowing his field, he became convinced he was having a heart attack. Ed stopped his work and lay down on the ground. Staring at the sky, he saw himself as a large tortoise struggling to swim across a river. On his back were five small tortoises--his children--clinging to him for survival. And then, as he lay there in the freshly plowed dirt, Ed received a vision from God, telling him that he would be restored to health if he would agree to do one thing: make musical instruments and give them to children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And so he did. Beginning with a few simple hand tools, Ed worked tirelessly for twenty-five years to create over two hundred instruments, each a crazy quilt of heavy, rough-sawn wood scraps joined with found objects. A rusty door hinge, a steak bone, a stack of dimes, springs, saw blades, pot lids, metal pipes, glass bottles, aerosol cans--Ed used anything he could to build a working guitar, fiddle, or dulcimer. On each instrument Ed inscribed \"True Faith, True Light, Have Faith in God.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrue Faith, True Light: The Devotional Art of Ed Stilley\u003c\/i\u003e documents Ed Stilley's life and work, giving us a glimpse into a singular life of austere devotion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arkansas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/04\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781557286819\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 12.23h x 7.63w x 0.77d","brand":"Kelly Mulhollan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43505854906549,"sku":"9781557286819","price":32.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_440b371e-5919-4828-a068-47b74edd9da8.jpg?v=1705425239","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/true-faith-true-light-the-devotional-art-of-ed-stilley-9781557286819","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}