Google’s Doodle for Amelia Earhart
Google has honored Amelia’s 115th birthday with a new tee-shirt, now offered in their Doodle shop.
Wearing Amelia- what a great way to keep her alive! Read more [...]
Amelia’s Navy Ships
Ideas & Insights About a Legendary Lady
Amelia’s Navy Ships
There were at least two American ships named after Amelia Earhart. The fist, according to Wikipedia, was “…SS Amelia Earhart (Hull Number 117). It was a Liberty ship Read more [...]
Lady Lindy
Ideas & Insights About a Legendary Lady
Lady Lindy
It was 1932 and Amelia Earhart had become almost as famous as the adventurous Charles A. Lindbergh. The ambitious aviatrix wanted to duplicate his record breaking flight across the Atlantic Read more [...]
Naming Amelia
Ideas & Insights About a Legendary Lady
Naming Amelia
The origin of the name Amelia is Latin and means work or industrious. Oddly, each year the name has had a meteoric rise in popularity in the U.S. In 2006 Amelia actually rose to the Read more [...]
Earhart’s Stepson-Crayola Connection
Did you know George Putnam Jr. (step-son of Amelia Earhart) was the heir to the Crayola Crayon (Binney) dynasty? Putnam talks about this in his video-taped interview entitled "Putnam Shares his Personal Memories" that Read more [...]
The Mystery of Earhart’s Radio Calls – Why So Short?
Before Amelia Earhart disappeared on her last flight she let it be known to all concerned that she would be transmitting at a quarter past the hour. She also said she would listen on the hour and half hour. In 1937 aircraft radios were quite Read more [...]