{"product_id":"9780881465266","title":"Fresh Water from Old Wells","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCindy Henry McMahon's family history is a slide show of the turbulent South: a thwarted lynch mob on a Georgia preacher's front porch; the integration of Mercer University and Macon, Georgia's Vineville Baptist Church; Birmingham, 1963; Martin Luther King, Jr.'s march to Selma; Koinonia Farm and the germination of Habitat for Humanity; inner-city activism and counter-culture communities in the woods. After a lifetime of hearing these stories but never fully understanding them, McMahon set out with a map and tape recorder to learn three things: (1) how the Civil Rights Movement and its aftermath shaped—or misshaped—her father; (2) how growing up in a family with this embittered, violent, and then absent father shaped her; and (3) how she survived it all remarkably intact. \u003ci\u003eFresh Water from Old Wells\u003c\/i\u003e weaves together the regional and national events of the volatile 1960s and 70s, her family's tumultuous Southern saga, and the stories of her own quest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mercer University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019150213360,"sku":"9780881465266","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780881465266_p0.jpg?v=1763848558","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780881465266","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}