My son, Jos, had just graduated from St. John’s College in Annaolis, MD. We were driving back to Kansas and detoured to North Carolina and the Outer Banks. My mother, Louise Foudray, was the curator of the Amelia Earhart Home in Atchison, KS for over 25 years (retired from there at the age of 86), so of course we had to go to Kitty Hawk. This is Jos indulging me by “modeling” as a ranger!
Sincerely,
Wright Brothers National Memorial
Wright Brothers National Memorial tells the story of Wilbur and Orville Wright and the first powered flight. See replicas of their early flying machines and the strip of land where they conducted their tests.
State(s): North Carolina
Established: 1927
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Greetings from Kettle Creek Battlefield
By Retired Col. Irma Hagans Cooper, former member of NPCA’s Pacific Regional Council MAMMY KATE, Enslaved Patriot of the Revolutionary War Mammy Kate was a Black woman enslaved by Colonel Stephen Heard of Georgia, a man who would later become governor of the state. Before she was kidnapped, sold, and…
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Greetings from Yosemite National Park
I travel to, and paint the US National Parks. I am passionate about conservation in “the People’s” Parks. I’ll be a guest painting teacher in Yosemite where I hope to share shifting color palettes of the Park depending on time of day, weather, and season.
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