PHOTO GALLERY of the 2009 AMELIA EARHART FESTIVAL
(Photos by G.B.Koontz)
A scale model of Earhart’s Lockheed Electra hangs in the solarium.
The Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum, Atchison, Kansas 2009
Rhonda Towne, Roberta Bassin and Giacinta Bradley Koontz visited
The Forest of Friendship during the Amelia Earhart Festival
The 2009 Pioneer Achievement Award of $10,000 was donated by the Cloud L. Cray Foundation and presented to Major Nicole M. Malachowski, USAF at an awards luncheon hosted by Atchison dignitaries. She has been honored at the Forest of Friendship (above).
Giacinta by the commemorative brick for Harriet Quimby
The former Earhart home (now the Birthplace Museum) is directly across the street from the Missouri River with a view to the “Amelia Earthart Bridge” with spans Kansas and Missouri. Tiger lillies grow wild in the yards and fields.
The former Earhart home is decorated with vintage furniture to display artifacts, photographs and documents relating to the life of Amelia Earhart. (Left) A china cabinet in the parlor displays various magazines in which Earhart was featured as well as a model of her first plane, a yellow “Kinner Airster” biplane, which was donated by Giacinta Bradley Koontz and modeler, George W. Crabtree of California. (Below) Dr. Alex Mandel, a noted Naval historian from the University of the Ukraine, donated his scale model of the USNS Amelia Earhart which was launched in 2008. Dr. Mandel was a special guest for the San Diego launch.
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