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Thanks to Ginny for suggesting this person. I enjoyed finding out about her.Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.Anne Morow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh was a quiet, contemplative 21 year old daughter of the American Ambassador to Mexico when she met her future husband. "Lucky Lindy" had fired the imaganition of the entire world with his solo flight across the Atlantic.
The man I was to marry believed in me and what I could do, and consequently I found I could do more than I realized.., " she later recounted in her diaries. As their courtship progressed, Lindbergh taught Anne how to fly. The two were married in a brief, simple ceremony at the Morrow's estate in Englewood, New Jersey on May 27, 1929. Anne was 23 years old. Just over a year later, Anne Morrow Lindbergh gave birth to the first of her six children, Charles A. Lindbergh, III. His 1932 kidnapping and murder would forever alter her life. Called the "Crime of the Century" the kidnapping and subsequent murder of their 20 month old son inspired the "Lindbergh Law", which made kidnapping a federal crime, and also inspired the Agatha Christie novel Murder on the Orient Express.
Much time during the early years of the Anne Morrow Lindbergh's marriage to Charles Lindbergh was spent flying. Anne took to flying with ease, and soon became her husband's trusted co-pilot on history-making journeys that took them all over the world. In 1931 they journeyed in a single-engine plane over Canada and Alaska, and on to Japan and China. The flight was the inspiration for Morrow Lindbergh's first book, "North to the Orient." She went on to write more than a dozen others including A Gift From the Sea, a meditation on the meaning of a woman's life.
In her later life she was honored with awards and honors. In addition to being the recipient of honorary Masters and Doctor of Letters degrees from her alma mater Smith College (1935; 1970), Anne also received honorary degrees from Amherst College (1939), the University of Rochester (1939), Middlebury College (1976), and Gustavus Adolphus College (1985). She was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame, the National Women's Hall of Fame, and the Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey. War Within and Without, the last installment of her published diaries, received the Christopher Award.
You can read more about her here, here and here.
The man I was to marry believed in me and what I could do, and consequently I found I could do more than I realized.., " she later recounted in her diaries. As their courtship progressed, Lindbergh taught Anne how to fly. The two were married in a brief, simple ceremony at the Morrow's estate in Englewood, New Jersey on May 27, 1929. Anne was 23 years old. Just over a year later, Anne Morrow Lindbergh gave birth to the first of her six children, Charles A. Lindbergh, III. His 1932 kidnapping and murder would forever alter her life. Called the "Crime of the Century" the kidnapping and subsequent murder of their 20 month old son inspired the "Lindbergh Law", which made kidnapping a federal crime, and also inspired the Agatha Christie novel Murder on the Orient Express.
Much time during the early years of the Anne Morrow Lindbergh's marriage to Charles Lindbergh was spent flying. Anne took to flying with ease, and soon became her husband's trusted co-pilot on history-making journeys that took them all over the world. In 1931 they journeyed in a single-engine plane over Canada and Alaska, and on to Japan and China. The flight was the inspiration for Morrow Lindbergh's first book, "North to the Orient." She went on to write more than a dozen others including A Gift From the Sea, a meditation on the meaning of a woman's life.
In her later life she was honored with awards and honors. In addition to being the recipient of honorary Masters and Doctor of Letters degrees from her alma mater Smith College (1935; 1970), Anne also received honorary degrees from Amherst College (1939), the University of Rochester (1939), Middlebury College (1976), and Gustavus Adolphus College (1985). She was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame, the National Women's Hall of Fame, and the Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey. War Within and Without, the last installment of her published diaries, received the Christopher Award.
You can read more about her here, here and here.
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It is supposedly Irish-American Heritage month as well as Women's History Month. So you need to search out some Irish-American Women to spotlight.
Are there any? Suggest some.
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