but I was glad to learn that Florence’s niece, Eunice Stephens, was right when she said that a town had been named after her aunt in an interview in the 1980s. It wasn’t really a town, though; it was a railroad
THE NOBLE AND IGNOBLE marked a busy May 1932. On May 20–21,Amelia Earhartbecame the first woman—and the only person sinceCharles Lindbergh—to fly nonstop and alone across the Atlantic. She is shown here after arriving in Culmore, Northern Ireland after her solo flight; At top, right, ...