South Towards Home

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Porter Briggs' grandfather was born on the heels of the Civil War. Porter grew up in the rise of Civil Rights. His father was Arkansas' first pediatrician. His mother's death from alcoholism when he was eighteen years old left its imprint even or especially</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)></em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> on the one-night affair that produced his son. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>After Cold War tank maneuvers and grad school in Germany Porter advanced Arkansas catfish-farming and hospital associations-then historic preservation and restoration. In California he drove an anti-nuke campaign with Paul Newman. Heading East he blazed through Wall Street massive greenhouses and boxwood the great American shrub-punctuated with a White House Fellowship John Denver's massive concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg and hanging with Sting. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Porter was with Drexel-Burnham-Lambert the day it blew up in Virginia when his life imploded and two blocks from the White House on 9/11. He rebuilt his life and had a thriving passport business when love for Diane Wilder called him home to Arkansas.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Porter vowed early to shut off God but God never left him. Not in bad decisions or business catastrophes . . . not when he gave up his son for adoption or labored for decades to find and know him. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Porter says God plays the long game and that it's worth the journey.</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> South Towards Home </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>his journey: a love story that starts with a boy losing himself and ends with a man finding his son.</span></p>