That's where I came in, during a raging heat wave that blanketed the Flats, a section of the Wadsworth Farms, in Autauga County, Alabama. Ed Harbison's life wasn't always pretty. Born in 1941, his childhood and adolescence were marked by struggles with poverty, inequality, and the often-violent rites of passage for black youths growing up in the rural South. But Ed's life was also marked by something else extraordinary-the examples of his grandmother and mother, women of courage and perseverance who passed on many life lessons. With the love and strength of his family, Ed rose from a hard-scratch existence to become a loving husband, father, prominent businessman and broadcast journalist, and member of the Georgia State Senate, where he tirelessly champions causes for military families and veterans. Told with humor, warmth, and honesty, Getting Butter from A Duck is a deeply personal story, a portrait not just of a boy who overcame his circumstances, but of a man who grew out of the best foundation-the love of a family.