Sat, Feb 11, 2006
Free Family Fun Day On March 11, 2006
The International
Women's Air & Space Museum will be hosting a Family Fun Day on
Saturday, March 11, 2006 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. The event is
free and open to the public. The museum will be celebrating Women's
History Month with a day of activities saluting the National
Women's Air Derby of 1929, the first transcontinental air race for
women, which ended in Cleveland as part of the National Air
Races.
Margaret Blair, author of the new book, "The Roaring 20", will
be on hand to discuss the race and sign copies of her book.
National Geographic is the publisher. Visitors will have the
opportunity to "participate" in the air race through the museum's
Powder Puff Derby game. Participants will receive the name of a
pilot who flew in the race and will follow the course of the race
through a discovery hunt to find out how (or if!) their pilot
finished the race. Members of the local 99's chapter (women's pilot
group founded by the aviatrixes who flew in the race in 1929) will
be on hand, too.
A special exhibit highlighting some of the museum's artifacts of
the race and the pilots will be on display. Free airplane crafts,
paper airplane races, and guided tours of the museum round out this
family event.
The International Women's Air & Space Museum is located in
the Burke Lakefront Airport, 1501 North Marginal Road. Museum
admission is free and exhibits are open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. The
Fay Gillis Wells Research Center and Gift Shop are open 10:00 a.m.
to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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