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For his stances, Bill Baggs earned a bullet hole through his office window, police officers stationed outside his home, and a used Mercedes outfitted with a remote starter so that if it had been rigged with a bomb, it would blow up before he opened the door. Despite his causes and accomplishments, when Baggs died of pneumonia in 1969 at the age of forty-five, his story nearly died with him, and that would have been a travesty because Baggs still has so much to teach us about how to find the answers to those not-so-simple questions, like how do we live in peace with one another? In this first biography of this influential editor, Amy Paige Condon retraces how an orphaned boy from rural Colquitt, Georgia, bore witness and impacted some of the twentieth century’s most earth-shifting events: World War II, the civil rights movement, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War. With keen intellect and sparkling wit, Baggs seemed to be in the right place at the right time. From bombardier to reporter to accidental diplomat, Baggs used his daily column as a bully pulpit for social justice and wielded his pen like a scalpel to reveal the truth. Now available in paperback at indie bookstores, Bookshop.com, UGA Press, and Amazon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e815238e6e16b68aff2b630/f51aa675-f0d1-42b4-9b16-98097857cc3c/9780358612674.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e815238e6e16b68aff2b630/1617468377428-6EGC5JTU3C2H57SNENEQ/BressnNyam_Bookshot.jpg Books - An Amazon Editors’ Pick Bress ‘N’ Nyam: Gullah Geechee Recipes from a Sixth-Generation Farmer In this groundbreaking and beautiful cookbook, Matthew Raiford pays homage to this cuisine that nurtured his family for seven generations. In 2010, Raiford’s Nana handed over the deed to the family farm to him and his sister, and Raiford rose to the occasion, nurturing the farm that his great-great-great grandfather, a freed slave, purchased in 1874. In this collection of heritage and updated recipes, he traces a history of community and family brought together by food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e815238e6e16b68aff2b630/1587176542219-31W07AJTT8U8R227D9TB/Wiley%27s.jpg Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e815238e6e16b68aff2b630/1587176685780-7WMSL411GLJOOPMHNQ8I/BackintheDay.jpg Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e815238e6e16b68aff2b630/1589294714199-JMTAKUAX4DQN83CDOHBU/Bill%2BTween_Baseball%2B1935_Collection%2Bcopy.jpg Books In January 1936, William Calhoun Baggs was sent to Colquitt, Georgia, to live with his aunt and uncle, Bill and Grace Dancer, after his mother died. An accomplished athlete, he lettered in multiple sports at Miller County High School, where he also served as editor of the school's newspaper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e815238e6e16b68aff2b630/1589294309623-4MTX6D61FEC2N24TOP8G/Davis+Crew+830+Squadron+copy.jpg Books Baggs flew with the Davis crew, the first replacement crew for the 830th squadron of the 485th Heavy Bomb Group. The entire crew completed all fifty missions from May through September 1944. Pictured from left to right, back row: Herman G. Davis, pilot; Charles Parker, co-pilot; Baggs, bombardier; Jesse Hartley, navigator; front row, left to right: Albert G. Dupuis, ball gunner; Isidore Kozatch, engineer/waist gunner; Tony M. Gallegos, tail gunner; Edward Gunn, radio operator/top turret gunner; Harold P. Dupuy, nose gunner; Andrew Dougherty, waist gunner. "The Mongrel," front and center, slept with Baggs. Photography courtesy of Craig and Mary Baggs. Crew names and information courtesy of Jerry Whiting, historian, 485th Bomb Group, Fifteenth Air Force. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e815238e6e16b68aff2b630/1589294325445-R2TUU835QFBMJCW7DGB4/Wedding+Day+July+7+1945_Collection+copy.jpg Books Baggs and Joan "Frec" Orr met at a Red Cross dance on Miami Beach in November 1944 and were married on June 7, 1945, in the courtyard of the Greenbriar Hotel. Courtesy Craig and Mary Baggs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e815238e6e16b68aff2b630/1589294338222-9BFXSX23U9HM8AJTJQLX/First+Cub+Reporter+Photo_History+Miami+copy.jpg Books Baggs as the new aviation reporter for the Miami News in 1946. Courtesy Craig and Mary Baggs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e815238e6e16b68aff2b630/1589294370236-9K0BO4LTKNKUBQ40TPO3/Baggs_Headshot_1940s_Election+copy.jpg Books One of the many test headshots taken of Baggs for his new column, In the Bag with Bill Baggs, 1949. 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