2014 Ella Dickey Literacy Award Winner for A Rare Titanic Family
From Betsi Yvette via Facebook:
"I finished reading A Rare Titanic Family. It’s an absolute treasure, so moving that I cried in the end.❤️ Thank you, Julie Hedgepeth Williams!"
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All
New!
Little Newspapers on the Prairie: The Frontier Press Career
of Carrie Ingalls
Julie Hedgepeth Williams,
author and speaker
Click the cover of my new booklet, Little Newspapers on the Prairie, to find out about Carrie Ingalls' career in the press.
Wilbur and Orville Wright had a problem. True, they had invented the airplane, and after a long court case had been granted patents on it. But now the brothers were manufacturing airplanes in Dayton, Ohio, for wealthy sportsmen to buy in the spring. Those buyers would have to be taught to fly, but by whom? Wilbur and Orville were busy defending their patents on the airplane. They realized they had to take action: They had to teach young men to fly and let them teach buyers of airplanes how to fly them. Although flight at the time belonged exclusively to the military, at this point Wilber and Orville, as inventors, decided to allow civilians to fly in
Montgomery
In 1910, flight was a military secret...
& then
the Wright Brothers
came to Alabama
Montgomery was thrilled!
Here at long last was the city's chance to prove that it was a modern city, progressive and smart, no longer stuck in the Confederacy. And, OH BOY! The Wright brothers and their aeroplane would put the city on front pages everywhere. The only problem? The Wright Brothers had no interest in being publicists for a town they hardly knew .... You'll enjoy the story of the nation's first civilian flying school and the city that desperately wanted to capitalize on it.