Amelia Earhart's Resting Place

[mac_stone]

There's a new article about the mounting evidence that she died a castaway on an island in the Pacific:

 

"For years, Richard Gillespie, TIGHAR's executive director and author of the book "Finding Amelia," and his crew have been searching the Nikumaroro island for evidence of Earhart. A tiny coral atoll, Nikumaroro was some 300 miles southeast of Earhart's target destination, Howland Island."

 

The story of her life and her disappearance has fascinated me since I was a child, and first read about her.

Comments

[skogkatt.livejournal.com]

Wow. As a child I was fascinated by Amelia Earhart. It sounds like rough time at the end according to the evidence, but I'm glad someone found some likely answers.

[alan-yee.livejournal.com]

Ever since I read a short book about her when I was younger, I've been interested in her and her disappearance. I've read about the various theories of what happened to her and find some of the evidence they found on certain islands to be very intriguing. This particular island sounds like a very likely candidate for the place where she crashed and later died.

[voidmonster.livejournal.com]

"Amelia, Amelia Earhart, after her plane was torn apart and bursting through the trees
She remembered picking lemons with William Randolph Hearst and how a spinning plane propeller turned liquid in the sun.
And as the cockpit burned, her hair filled with sparks, but when the glass exploded in, everything went dark.
She remembered sipping consommé with William Howard Taft and a boy with perfect skin who smelled like mustard gas. And as the cockpit burned, she couldn't help but smile, recalling a dancing bear she'd seen as a child."

By Brett and Rennie Sparks.

[mac-stone.livejournal.com]

Wow...I love that! Thank you.

[mac-stone.livejournal.com]

It's a mystery, y'know? And there's nothing that fires the imagination like Mystery.

[aviatrix18.livejournal.com]

One of the truly tragic things about Amelia is that this was going to be her last big flight - after it was over she was going to step back from the limelight acording to her husband, George Putnam. I had a corporate newsletter from the B&M RR, that had and article about Boston and Maine Airways and Amelia's invovement with the airline in the 30's.

[mac-stone.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Exactly so.

[bellakara.livejournal.com]

Thanks for friending me - I'm glad you did because I didn't know about this story of her ending up on this island. It seems terrible that she was able to land and yet help never came for her and her navigator.

[mac-stone.livejournal.com]

I found you through daoinesidh (http://daoinesidh.livejournal.com/profile)'s journal - you've some really lovely stuff posted. I look forward to following along.