Barbara Baird is a freelance writer/editor/publisher specializing in travel and outdoor topics, with bylines in regional and national magazines. She publishes “Women’s Outdoor News,” which features women who live adventuresome lives that include hiking, birding, hunting, fishing, shooting sports and more. It’s like a “Field and Stream” for women, by women. Her first book, “Milling Around: Exploring 26 Mills in the Missouri Ozarks,” is a collection of stories that began when she first worked in publishing, in 2000, as a small-town newspaper editor who penned a weekly column titled “The Accidental Ozarkian.” She self-syndicated the column to several Missouri newspapers, and her features also appeared in travel magazines, and in the “St. Louis Post-Dispatch”, “Columbia Tribune” and “Springfield News Leader.” After seven years and 350 columns, she turned her attention to her work at “Women’s Outdoor News,” establishing it as the premiere outdoor publication for women by women writers and videographers. Baird created a website to feature her past columns, titled “The Accidental Ozarkian,” and occasionally posts a new adventure, a foray in to the world of the Ozarks – often historical or downright quirky. Take, for example, her interview with the “Daffodil Dudes,” two guys who planted thousands of daffodils along a country road in the Ozarks. On another time, she learned how to “divine” in a graveyard, with three elderly mentors whom she had coffee with in the St. James bakery regularly. She also went fish and frog gigging, caving and more. For the mill book, she completed the odyssey of finding and visiting 26 mills in the Ozarks that people can visit. In fact, she makes it easy – by including not only GPS coordinates, but also, including colorful maps used with permission by the Missouri Department of Transportation. Baird hails from the Dakotas (hence, "The Accidental Ozarkian" title) and now lives in the Ozarks of Missouri with her husband, Jason, who accomplished the feat of providing beautiful photography of all the mill sites, along with scanning and illustrating the mill maps. The Bairds are parents to four children and grandparents to 11, who are learning all about the great outdoors, as well as Ozarks history.
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