{"product_id":"from-maple-mud-to-ethiopian-miracles-9798995282907","title":"From Maple Mud to Ethiopian Miracles","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): James William Graff\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Graff Family\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Graff Family\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Educators\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From Maple Mud to Ethiopian Miracles\" is Bill Graff's memoir of a life shaped by service. It opens with a crumpled telegram - that pulled him from a graduate teaching post at Stevens Institute into the Peace Corps in 1963. Sent to Ethiopia, he taught in Addis Ababa, married Betty, and lobbied to be reassigned to Sodo, a remote Wolaita town with no electricity or running water. There they built a home, taught, witnessed the Miracle of Ajura, met Emperor Haile Selassie, and lived through Kennedy's death from afar. Decades later, after a career in technology and publishing, Bill returned to Ethiopia again and again - first stocking school libraries, then funding \"Christmas desks,\" and finally installing RACHEL servers and Chromebooks in Wolaita schools. Locally run, it became his late-life mission. He handed the work to World Possible before passing on September 14, 2025, the day after his 87th birthday.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graff Family","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47966905499799,"sku":"9798995282907","price":2135.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798995282907.webp?v=1782912505","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/from-maple-mud-to-ethiopian-miracles-9798995282907","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}