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.
>
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