Progress columnist Alan Gibson died last week at his home in Bent Tree of natural causes [his obituary appears on page 16A]. Gibson had been contributing his “The Essential Bad Attitude” column to the Progress since April 2008. The author of books and plays won a first place award in the largest weekly newspaper category for humor writing in the Georgia Press Association contest for the year 2013. The Bent Tree resident has never missed a weekly deadline, still working in longhand, vigorously maintaining his aversion to both the internet and computers in general. Though we have a small backlog of columns that have not run, we will shortly be missing the weekly dose of humor Gibson brought to the Progress. The judges’ commented on his winning
