FREEPORT – Emmy Award-winner Jack Perkins will be reading from and signing copies of his book, “Finding Moosewood, Finding God: What Happened When a TV Newsman Abandoned His Career for Life on an Island,” on Saturday, June 15, at 6 p.m., at the Freeport Community Library on Main Street.

A former NBC television journalist and host of the A&E channel’s popular “Biography” program, Perkins moved to an unoccupied island near Bar Harbor from Los Angeles at the height of his fame. Along with his wife Mary Jo, he built a solar-powered cabin, heated only by a woodstove. According to a press release, it was then that he discovered God. The book chronicles the long career of Perkins and also his spiritual awakening.

“It was an admittedly strange turnabout for a lifelong agnostic with little interest in the intangible. And yet there was a growing ‘awareness’ of the spiritual that seemed to coincide with the building of Moosewood, an awareness of some of the simplest realities of our daily lives,” Perkins writes.

The event, sponsored by the library and Sherman’s Books, is free, and light refreshments will be served.