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| FOWL Meeting Tues May 25th 7pm at the Library featured Julie Hedgepeth Williams, author of Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910
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In 1910, Orville and Wilbur Wright opened the first US civilian flight school in Montgomery, Alabama. The Wright Brothers hoped to find a climate warmer and more hospitable to flying than their company base of snowy Dayton, Ohio, even as forward-thinking Montgomerians heralded the school as a way to rise above the shadow of the Civil War. Author Julie Hedgepeth Williams chronicles the short life of this flight school as seen mainly through the eyes of the Alabama press, whose reporting and sometimes mis-reporting “reflected the misconceptions, hopes, dreams, and fears about aviation in 1910, painting a picture of a time when flight was untested, unsteady, and unavailable to most people.” |
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The Friends of the Wetumpka Library (FOWL) has monthly meetings which feature speakers that have something to do with the world of books or local interest. Past Speakers have included Rheta Grimsley Johnson, Leslie Bailey, Kathryn Tucker Windham, Deborah Ford, Julia Spencer-Fleming, JoAnn Ross , Rob Dalby and Julia Oliver just to name a few! Meetings are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
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