Dan,
My personal favorite liscense plate suggestion was:
North Carolina - The Mobile Home State
All I know about the planned celebrations at Kitty Hawk is that a state
official was quoted as saying that the Outer Banks may sink from the
number of visitors expected this December for the 100th Anniversary. It
worth a visit to see the 1960 Wright Brothers Visitor's Center by
Mitchell/Girguola (which the NPS wanted to tear down a few years ago,
but then decided it should be a NHL). .
The visitors center was dedicated on the 57th anniversary of the first
flight. According to one news account, a "slim audience saddened by
Friday's airliner collision over New York and Saturday's crash at
Munich". - From the NPS site
Anyone know the specifics of the airliner collision?
Mitch
"Becker, Dan" wrote:
> Don't tell that to the National Park Service. Especially since it's
> all planned and ready to go.dan from ohio a nice state to be from but
> now in nc hey mitch you wanna chime in too or maybe we don't want to
> revisit the license plate slogan wars becker
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stevenson, Pamela [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 9:09 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: DON'T SKIP KITTY HAWK!!!!!!
>
> I also understand the "official" celebration is in Ohio,
> since that's where Orville and Wilbur came from - just the
> flying conditions were better in NC.- Pam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Met History [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 9:06 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: DON'T SKIP KITTY HAWK!!!!!!
>
> In a message dated 8/1/2003 8:49:30 AM Eastern
> Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
>
> > and no I don't want to visit kitty hawk,
>
> Q. The architects of the memorial structure
> here were Rodgers & Poor, of
> New York. Who were they and what other buildings
> did they do? . . . James
> Charlet, a ranger at Wright Brothers National
> Memorial, Kitty Hawk, N.C.
> A. The partnership of Robert Perry Rodgers
> (1895?-1934) and Alfred Easton
> Poor (1899-1988) began in 1929 and ended with
> Rodgers's death in 1934. But for
> five years they designe an series of buildings
> marked by intelligence and
> ingenuity.
>
> Born into a Navy family, Rodgers graduated from
> Harvard and the Ecole des
> Beaux-Arts in Paris, served in the Navy in World
> War I and first worked for the
> architect Bertram Goodhue. In 1911 his brother,
> John, became the Navy's second
> aviator.
>
> Poor trained at Harvard and the University of
> Pennsylvania, and then worked
> for Walker & Gillette, New York architects.
> According to his nephew, John
> Sheppard Poor, he was too young by a year for
> military service in World War I
> but became a Navy flier by persuading his own
> father to lie about his age. Two
> decades later he had to confess the fiction to get
> in under the age limit for
> service in World War II.
>
> In 1930, the partners were awarded the
> commission for the Wright memorial on
> top of the high dune from which the Wright
> brothers launched their first powered
> flights in 1903. The award praised the "extreme
> simplicity" and "power of
> imagination" of the design for a simple, wing-like
> pylon, which was to carry a
> beacon at the top and was to serve as a marker for
> aerial navigation.
>
> Swept by steady winds and high above the
> surrounding lowland, it is a moving
> monument. Original drawings show that Rodgers &
> Poor intended a more elaborate
> design, with a night beacon system, than was
> ultimately carried out.
>
> The earliest identified works by Rodgers and
> Poor are the two studio
> apartment houses at 169 and 170 East 78th Street,
> designed in a sophisticated,
> stripped Classicism. In 1931, they designed the
> Cape Cinema, which still stands
> in Dennis, Mass. On the outside the building looks
> like a chubby New England
> meeting house. But the inside is pure fantasy, a
> giant curved vault with
> astronomical and solar murals in deep blue,
> orange, gold and silver by Rockwell
> Kent and J. Malzenar [Error: Joel Mielziner].
> [ANY PINHEAD ACTUALLY SEEN THIS?]
>
> In later partnerships Poor was the architect of
> important commercial and
> government buildings, like what is now the Jacob
> K. Javits Federal Office
> Building in New York and the James Madison
> Memorial Building at the Library of
> Congress, both designed in the 1960's.
>
> His successor firm, Swanke Hayden Connell
> Architects, is still in practice in
> New York City.
>
--
F. Mitchener Wilds, Senior Restoration Specialist
Restoration Branch
State Historic Preservation Office
919/733-6547
http://www.hpo.dcr.state.nc.us
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