Sedona News – The Sedona Heritage Museum will host local historian Victoria Clark for a Sedona Stories presentation on Thursday, March 14, at 10 am in the Museum’s Historic Apple Packing Shed. The topic of Clark’s talk will be the 1929 Women’s Transcontinental Air Race.
In an age of aviation breakthroughs, the 1929 Women’s Transcontinental Air Race caught the nation’s attention. The nine day sprint brought together 19 pilots, including Amelia Earhart, racing from Santa Monica, California, to Cleveland Ohio. The race included stops in Yuma, Phoenix, and Douglas, Arizona.
While the women were feted at every stop, and 18,000 people turned out to greet them in Cleveland, the triumphant race was not without tragedy, as one of the women perished in a crash in Arizona. Clark will hit on all the high points and the low points of what humorist Will Rogers termed “the Powder Puff Derby.”
Sedona Stories takes place at 10 am on the second Thursday of every month at the Sedona Heritage Museum. The program is free to attend.
The Sedona Historical Society operates the Sedona Heritage Museum located in Jordan Historical Park, 735 Jordan Road in Uptown Sedona, Arizona. Open daily 11 am – 3 pm. For more information call 928-282-7038 or visit www.sedonamuseum.org.
