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Amelia Earhart 1897-1997

... Amelia Earhart 1897-1997 ...

Published: Friday 25 July 1997
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

100th Birthday party celebrations

... 100th Birthday party celebrations The Amelia Earhart Centre in Derry's Ballyarnett Country Park is holding a host of events to celebrate its 100th birthday this week. On Thursday afternoon from 2 to 4 p.m. there will be a model aircraft display and flyover ...

Published: Tuesday 22 July 1997
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 135 | Page: 33 | Tags: none

DERRY MARKS AVIATOR'’S BIRTH

... DERRY MARKS AVIATOR'’S BIRTH MAY 22, 1932, Amelia Earhart created aviation history as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Landing just outside Derry in “Cornshell” where the Amelia Earhart Centre now stands. Local men James McGeady and Dan ...

Published: Friday 25 July 1997
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 715 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Earhart centre attacked

... trans-Atlantic attack which was also by vandals in Derry. air crossing. condemned by the area's Fein ‘The attack on the Amelia Amelia Earhart landed at Earhart centre, on the Ballyarnett in 1933 after an SDLP an councillors. Sinn outskirts of the city, was historic ...

Published: Tuesday 05 August 1997
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Weapons

... Archaeological Fieldwalking Society) and Tommy Gallagher (vice-chairman), handing over artefacts to John Thompson of the Amelia Earhart Centre for permanent display in the museum. (18/7/SAI7) > R 7 ey ’;“fig@kh& Ty ¢ P \ n) .3‘“ ‘ ! T STy T A R Bl ;‘W ...

Published: Tuesday 22 July 1997
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 184 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

By JOHN THOMPSON –

... sometimes speak of Derry as an Island City. An overview of the Shantallow townland from a high vantage point such as the Amelia Earhart Centre or Sheriff’s Mountain reveals Shantallow as occupying a large second island on the river. Shantallow could with ...

Published: Friday 10 January 1997
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

she could perceive and value the integrity and goodness of her friends. Yet she also had a healthy sense of

... worth, and even of her role in local affairs. Thus, as a young woman she posed formally for an historic photograph beside Amelia Earhart, the American aviatrix who had just landed in a field outside Derry to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ...

Published: Tuesday 05 August 1997
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

She followed Earhart’s flight path

... Atlantic like Amelia Earhart”™ who had “always been of her heroines ” one She got on a waiting list to ferry a plane across the Atlantic. What she didn't expect was that it would be a singleengined 180 horse power Cessna, which resembled Amelia Earhart’s plane ...

Published: Friday 08 August 1997
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 585 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SKY MOVIES SCREEN 1 G 0 (Y 3614 ) s

... 5.00 Out of Control 5.30 Leslie Nielsen's Unbalanced World 9.00 On the Town 11.00 The Year of Living Dangerously 1.00 Amelia Earhart: the Final Flight 3.00 The Last Run 6.00 Ghostwriter 6.30 Faene Tale Theatre 7.30 Flash Forward 8.00 Dinosaurs 8.30 Boy ...

Published: Tuesday 11 November 1997
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 218 | Page: 68 | Tags: none

Ballyarnett Racecourse

... in the name of the more modest residences which have since replaced them, e.g. Hampstead Park. In 1932 the landing of Amelia Earhart at “Cornshell” in the Townland of Shantallow was announced to the world as an aviation first. “Surely this must be the ...

Published: Friday 10 January 1997
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 269 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

Derry Society’s new Stoneage Survey

... fields, marking, collecting, and recording the locations of stone flakes and tools. Any finds will then be taken to the Amelia Earhart Centre where they will be cleaned, studied and recorded. On completion of that project, the public will be invited to ...

Published: Friday 22 August 1997
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 427 | Page: 40 | Tags: none