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Amelia Earhart, born July 24, 1897
This week we want you to experience the adventures of flying, even if it's just a wistful image of daredevils doing loop de loops in our photographic topics of the week. Tighten your seat belt and lets soar around the world. Feel the thrill and imagine what Amelia Earhart Putnam and her navigator Fred Noonan must have been thinking as they flew over the pacific searching desperately for the tiny strip of land.
'Amelia Earhart her younger sister Muriel lived with their grandparents in Atchison--where Amelia was the favorite of the neighborhood. Amelia, it seems, was full of ideas and never one to think that boys should have all the fun. The neighborhood children always waited for her to decide what they were going to do. They felt that Amelia was more fun to play with than anyone else.
She loved to sit at her bedroom window and look out at the trees. She especially loved the sugar maple and linden that grew in the front yard. She sat in her bedroom studying those trees, dreaming, watching as the propeller-shaped maple seeds gracefully winged their way to earth. Gazing into the dense branches of the sugar maple outside her bedroom window she would drift off to sleep. That's how trees are: They take us to dreamy places far away from the safety of our own yards. Plant an Amelia Earhart Sugar Maple in your own yard and inspire a young dreamer to reach for new heights.
The second half of her life, of course, is better known. She began to fly in 1920, when it was still an unusual and risky pastime, solely the domain of men. As we all know, in 1937, she set out to be the first person to fly around the world; she and her navigator Fred Noonan were lost at sea somewhere over the Pacific. Despite her tragic end, Amelia Earhart has come to symbolize the possibilities that exist for those unafraid to reach for their dreams.' (JEFF MEYER. COPYRIGHT 2001 American Forests)
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Amelia Erhart Resources
Amelia's Aricraft
Aviation Photography
Photographer of the Week
When we first began browsing Peter Steehouwer's galleries, they looked pretty stock...until we clicked the
"MAKS 2003 Moscow" gallery
and saw the photo at the top of the page.
He has a number of stunning arials compositions and they are well worth the time it takes to sift through the other more typical airshow photos.
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