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Tue, Sep 02, 2003

New Wright Items Coming to Public View

Some Things Just Take Time...

The First Flight Centennial organization told ANN that East Carolina University's award-winning literary journal, the North Carolina Literary Review, now features rare images from the Wright brothers' 1911 glider experiments. These delicate cyanotypes were owned by Alpheus Drinkwater, the telegrapher who announced the Wright brothers' 1903 success to the world. Drinkwater's daughter, Marguerite Drinkwater Booth, allowed these blue-toned prints (an early method of photography) to be reproduced and published, for the first time, by NCLR.

The special feature section shows how North Carolina and flight have been linked since long before 1903 -- in an 18th century German novel, in which the main character flies across the ocean and lands in the area now called Winston-Salem -- to long after -- in Edgerton's novels, The Floatplane Notebooks and In Memory of Junior.

The 1903 event itself features prominently throughout American poetry, including a poem by Robert Frost called "Kitty Hawk."

To purchase a copy of this issue, send a check for $15 plus $2 for postage to: NCLR, Department of English, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858-4353. Or contact the editor, Margaret Bauer.

FMI: BauerM@mail.ecu.edu

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