STORY-TELLER NANCY PAYNE ON EARLY AVIATRICES from the Gilboa Historical Society

Since Thanksgiving 2020, the Gilboa Historical Society has presented a short performance each week by a rotating roster of musicians and story-tellers. You can be added to our mail list for reminders about upcoming shows!

THIS WEEK: Women who took up flying in the early 1900's had to handle prejudice as well as the aircraft. Common public sentiment at that time was that a man being killed in an aircraft was a shame, but that he knew what he was getting into and was a hero for breaking new ground.

.....But, when a woman died in a plane accident, it was proof positive she shouldn't have been flying in the first place.

.....Storyteller Nancy Marie Payne brings that time alive through the voice of colorful and innovative female pilots of the 1920's, relating the exploits of early balloonists and aviators including Ruth Law, Harriet Quimby, Bessie Colman, Bobbi Trout, Amelia Earhart and others.

.....Click here for this free performance from now through January 22, 2021.

Starting next Friday, Nancy and musicians Dave Ruch and Reggie Harris will continue rotating performances through the remaining weeks of winter.