Wings Over the Ocean

February 19, 2010

The Center for Cartoon Studies presents Amelia Earhart

Drawing by Ben Towle

Interview with CCS author Sarah Stewart Taylor on Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean

Valley News
by Nicola Smith

On the morning of June 17, 1928, Amelia Earhart went down to the harbor in Trepassey, Newfoundland, where a crowd of reporters waited to see if she would finally make good on her attempt to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane. It was a clear day and there was a promising, brisk tail wind out of the west.

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