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Unique exhibit coincides with Centennial
Anniversary of Flight
On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville
Wright realized a dream many thought unattainable - flight.
Their vision and hard work enabled generations to come to take
to the sky and soar like birds. Less than 30 years later, the
equally determined Amelia
Earhart followed in the
footsteps of Charles Lindberg and became the second person,
and first woman, to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Now through April 27, the famed female aviator is being honored
in a special exhibit at Purdue University's Stewart Center Gallery
in West Lafayette, Indiana. "Flight
Trails" is an up-close
and personal look at Earhart's life. The exhibit has more than
5,000 items, and features 492 pieces from the estate of her
husband, George Putnam, as provided through Putnam's granddaughter
and an Amelia Earhart biographer, Sally Putnam Chapman.
There are a diverse range of artifacts on display, such as:
medals, a flight suit, fan mail (including a letter from Eleanor
Roosevelt), lecture notes, flight logs, love letters, poems
and other private papers. The university has also enlarged photographs
of Earhart with faculty and students during her guest visits
to Purdue in the 1930s.
For more information on this special exhibit, please visit the
Purdue
University Web site.
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