Villages By An Emerald Sea

History of Northwest Florida's magnificent Emerald Coast in the 1950's, particularly the communities of Destin, Fort Walton Beach, Niceville, Mary Esther, Valparaiso, Seaside, Sandestin, Crestview, and DeFuniak Springs. It is written in engaging short story format.

History

Baughman, James Keir

Americas

Baughman Literary Group

History of Northwest Florida's magnificent Emerald Coast in the 1950's. It is written in engaging short story format...especially including the Emerald Coast communities of Destin, Fort Walton Beach, Niceville, Valparaiso, Mary Esther, Shalimar, Sandestin, Seaside, Crestview, DeFuniak Springs, and Eglin Air Force Base.

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Fun and Adventure in the Condo Lifestyle

Business & Money

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<p>An angel who pilots an angelic World War II P-51 fighter plane comes to find a far middle aged, troubled man...and in a unique way extends help. In that time, together, they fly the fighter in a series of startling adventures ...right to the edge of Heaven's Gate. The tale is set amidst Northwest Florida's magnificent Emerald Coast. it begins and ends at a small abandonded airfield on giant Eglin Air Force Base...and over the Emerald Coast beaches and cities of Destin, Fort Walton Beach, and DeFuniak Springs</p>

An Angel With Silver Wings

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

The Boys From Lake County

Co A, 73rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment. One of the most detailed reviews of America's Civil War in it's western field. A painful, shocking expose of the disastrous treatment of America's disabled Civil War veterans...little known even in those years...completely unremembered in our day. Hour by hour...heroism and brilliant strategy in the most hard hitting, combative, small scale raid of America's Civil War. Rank and file riflemen... friends and neighbors from one Indiana county...living, fighting, dying in America's bloodiest of all wars. "The Boys From Lake County" is likely one-of-kind in America's Civil War history...at least in the last hundred years. The book names all of the 100 men who originally enlisted in Co A, 73rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment. It details their age at enlistment, their height, complexion, color of hair, color of eyes, where they were born, where they resided in Lake County, civilian occupation, and what happened to them during the War. For a few it reveals some details of their lives after the War. For one, the book lists a great many events during his entire lifetime. As a matter of course, "The Boys From Lake County" is also a relatively complete history of their 73rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

Villages By An Emerald Sea by James Keir Baughman is a history of Northwest Forida's magnificent Emerald Coast, especially the towns of Fort Walton Beach, Destin, Sandestin, Seaside, and Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Rather than comprehensive, the history is written in focused, engaging, short story form, crafted to be highly entertaining for the person who loves to read. In other words, Villages By An Emerald Sea is meant to make history fun as well as memorable. In Villages By An Emerald Sea the reader will find nearly 300 historic people, families, businesses, streets, highways, old bridges, sea sides, and public facilities memorialized, as well as vibrant descriptions of the Emerald Coast in its earliest and most recent years. Among the people, families, businesses, places, old streets, bridges, and events of the 1950's and 1960's recorded in the history are...Wayne Bell, Claude Jenkins, The Playground News/Northwest Florida Daily News, Mayor O.M. "Pete" Earley, Theo "Docie" Bass, Cecil Bass, Jim Miller, Leon Bishop, Joe Palazzo, Bruce & Joyce Ranew, Paul Roberts, Bill Williams, Dorothy Maslow, Jimmy Pulliam, Arturo Mennillo, Captain Johnny O’Neal, Holton & Henrietta Hudson, Clifford Meigs, Sara Meigs Tras, Bill Harris, Liz Jackson, Alma Culp, Bill & Grace Butler, Jimmie & Pearl Cox, Dr.Aubrey & Ann Robinson, Aubrey Metcalf, Judge Joseph "Andy" Anderson, Denny Partin, Mayor Tom Brooks, Mrs. J.G. Scherf, Buddy O’Neal, Agnes Shahid, Louis Woodham, the famous mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner, Leon Bishop, Dr. Roger D. Riggenbach, Julius Miller, Luther Clary, Chuck Clary, Mayor Sam Lindsey, Pastor Johnson Pace of St. Simon’s on the Sound Episcopal Church, Gulfarium, Bob McCreary, George Alford, Knute McCulley, Lee Martin, Lee Martin Pier, Theo Staff of the famous Staff’s Restaurant family, Roger & Ella Clary, The Shalimar Club, Shalimar, J.V. Calvin, Fort Walton Women’s Club, famous actor Andy Griffith, Nathan Fleet, Judge Erwin Fleet, Mr. & Mrs. H.J. Benkirt, Mary Cox, world famous singer and actor Frank Sinatra... and many more. One historical short story, "The Last Casualty Of World War II," centers around the United States Air Force, so much a part of Emerald Coast history. It tells the story of the author and Airman 2/C Phillip T. Mancos, Jr., growing up together during the uneasy years of World War II in Varina, Virginia, the peaceful farm community on the outskirts of Richmond. In Varina, the two boys attended Varina Elementary School, Varina High School, and Laurel Hill Methodist Church of Varina. On March 18, 1953, Phil, just 21 years old, died in the crash of the RB-36H "Peacemaker" Bomber #51- 13721 at Burgoyne Cove near Random Island, 60 miles from Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. The accident occurred after a long flight from Lajes Field Air Force Base in the Azores Islands. "The Last Casualty" details the events leading to the accident, life afterward for Phil's mother Lydia Ellen Kovacs Mancos, and memorializes the full names and rank of all 23 members of the lost crew. As a result of the crash and Phil's death, Rapid City Air Force Base at Rapid City, South Dakota, was renamed Ellsworth Air Force Base for Brigadier General Richard Elmer Ellsworth who also lost his life in the accident. The base was renamed in a formal ceremony in June of 1953 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and South Dakota Governor Sigurd Anderson. The short story "In The Tears Of An Old Man" memorializes working history of Orr's Department Store of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, notably Roscoe Sloyer and ten other ancestral employees of the nearly 140 year old store building, now a fashionable, fully revamped, office and retail complex as well as an historic landmark in downtown Bethlehem. "A Glance Toward Hail" describes the most frightening of family tragedies. It is a happening of much more recent years. However, the telling of it opens discussion of how total governmental control, in Florida’s case via a Republican Governor combined with the absolute power of a Republican Legislature, is having disastrous effect on the lives and economic future of working men and women and their families...workers injured and disabled by their boss’s machines or management failure. "They Called 'Em Retired Colonels" might seem a military story. It is not. It is an economic tale discussing a different kind of war, one that wields enormous impact on the economic future of our Emerald Coast... and other American cities You see, in the Emerald Coast's developmental years a half century ago, local businessmen and women had just one intense fear...of the day when rapidly growing numbers of retired military officers and their families could seize power to out-vote working business folk in the sensible management of local civic affairs. Why? Even in far past years, a reputation followed large gatherings of retired military officers. Far too many, it seemed, hated the American business community ...the American capitalist system... almost as much as do communists, terrorists, and dictators. In spite of that great fear, no American community has ever been more continuously devoted, more unwaveringly supportive, of America's active and retired Armed Forces than the cities of Northwest Florida’s Emerald Coast. The story brings us into latter day years, finding fearful evidence that the concerns of early Emerald Coast businessmen and women were all too real, evinced in recent time by events and hundreds of "Letters to the Editor" spewing hatred and hostility toward "those greedy businessmen," towards the heart of America, the capitalist system which has made us the most prosperous, most efficient, most successful, most powerful Nation in the world. The tale points out that Our American capitalist system is also the same assembly of working citizens who provide all the tax base to support immense costs of America’s best-in-the-world military force, huge life-long government employee fringe benefits, and enormous, far-early, military retirement privileges. "A Night In The Cage" is a story of one naive young man’s tragi-comic night spent in Fort Walton Beach’s jail in 1954. It is a stunning story, revealing horrid conditions found in many small city jails a half century ago... though it also bears fascinating description of life in this tiny sea side village in those delightful years. "The Best Damn Writer On The Emerald Coast" is of the life of a locally famed Emerald Coast writer... a man of immense talent and cultural finesse, far ahead of his years... one whose writing made major contributions to making Northwest Florida’s Emerald Coast... America’s new Riviera. "Dawn At The Indian Mound Saloon," vibrates with the feel of fast moving military-tourist influence on the quiet, peaceful lifestyle of tiny Emerald Coast sea side villages a half century ago.

Villages by an Emerald Sea: America's New Riviera. . . Northwest Florida's Magnificent Emerald Coast, True Tales of the Early Years

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FROM THE INTRODUCTION: History, gathered and posed by one who researches ancient records, can be an arid, tedious affair... replete with dry-bone forebears, a flooding of dates, and places with names that have no color, nor vision, nor canticle. History recorded in time to be penned by one who has seen and sensed and lived it...long abides as a song of life...exactly as it was, vibrant images sketched and hued in the printed, graphic word. These fourteen short stories are of such..., living vignettes of the early years of America's newest Riviera, Northwest Florida's magnificent Emerald Coast. Twelve of the tales are directly of the Emerald Coast itself. Two of them touch it only obliquely. "In The Tears of An Old Man," is of the time when the author was returning home, after an absence of only five out of more than fifty years. "The Last Casualty of World War II" is a story of the United States Air Force, so splendidly a portion of the Emerald Coast, and it's history. A saga recorded in such venue surely cannot cover the broad span of an age. Yet, it may paint in vivid timbre a man or woman or place or event shaping that era. I hope, to some extent, I have done so.

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Villages By An Emerald Sea

Villages By An Emerald Sea

Fun and Adventure in the Condo Lifestyle

An Angel With Silver Wings

The Boys From Lake County

Villages by an Emerald Sea: America's New Riviera. . . Northwest Florida's Magnificent Emerald Coast, True Tales of the Early Years

Villages by an Emerald Sea: America's New Riviera. . . Northwest Florida's Magnificent Emerald Coast, True Tales of the Early Years

Fun and Adventure in the Condo Lifestyle: Penned in Condominium World... Northwest Florida's Magnificent Emerald Coast: Owners, Board Members, Managers... Learn How to Better Manage and Maintain Your