Dorothy Cochrane, who has collected and preserved historic aviation artifacts for the Smithsonian’s Nationwide Air and Area Museum for 40-plus years, will talk about the life and legacy of Amelia Earhart on the English-Talking Union occasion on March 16, at Pinehurst Nation Membership.
Cochrane was one of many Smithsonian Establishment first feminine curators and is thought for her encyclopedic information of aviation historical past. She was the first investigator for the Navy Ladies Aviators Oral Historical past Initiative, and is the museum’s main scholar on Anne Morrow Lindbergh, along with Earhart’s life and disappearance. Cochrane can be notable for her acquisition of priceless aviation artifacts together with at the very least a dozen plane.
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