Story | October 17, 2021
Nancy Marie Payne, Storyteller at Gilboa Museum Juried History Center
GILBOA - Women who took up flying in the early 1900s had to handle prejudice as well as their aircraft. Public sentiment in the early days of flying held that when a man died in an aircraft accident it was a shame—but he knew what he was getting into and was a hero for breaking new ground. ....When a woman died in a plane accident, it was proof positive she