My Times

About the Book

Overcoming limitations of depression-era circumstances, a boy from rural Alabama moves from newspaper reporting to take a ringside role in the staging of the finest hour of American technology-the race to beat the Soviets to the moon. While telling the evolving U. S. space story, Jones also tells the adventures of an uncommon moonlighting role, the upbringing of three sons in an unaccustomed realm of horticulture, of demanding church leadership functions, of pursuing the art of fading Sacred Harp folk music, of allegiance to generations-old family traditions of hunting and camping in all, an improbable mixture of the spatial and earthly in a notable memoir.

About the Author

A farm boy gone high-tech, Joseph M. Jones is the retired Director of Public Affairs, NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama. During his years as a Space Agency information officer he doubled as operator of a broadleaf evergreen nursery. Thus with eyes on the heavens, he was firmly planted in the red soil of North Alabama. This is his story of those two worlds.