Aviation Trail, Inc. Notes

      

The ATI newsletters only come every so often, so there’s a difficulty in maintaining a continuous re-report of what’s going on generally speaking.  One big deal more or less on the scene currently is the fact that Wilbur Wright’s 150th birthday was this year.  It is the topic of the lead story put in the spring newsletter, and it’s worth a mention. 

Since the actual date given is April 16, 1867, this note’s over a week late just on that point.  The activity planned was set for April 8, which, of course, is also past.  It’s the angle here to just acknowledge the 150th birthday.  It seems like a long time ago at first, but a little thinking will bring up the fact that people live to be over 100. 

The newsletter’s only three pages and doesn’t include many items that some might consider of interest.  Obviously, if just three pages often with a picture or two, there is not room for much.  One aspect’s just keeping members informed of dates, speakers and the like.  An ongoing report’s been about saving the Wright’s factory, what is still there. 

Doing something about the “remains” of the factory will be discussed for some time yet in all likelihood.  It is also the subject of media stories; there’s much involved.  When things are done, it is hoped it’ll be another park service site.  The plans include a public library building on part of the property.  Things are still with “fund-raising.” 

Big dreams can take much time. 

Point Of View … (“Rust Belt”)

     

Where someone is “coming from” is important with anything, and as a rule little of that is ever known.  It’s possible estimations of a few things can be established, but little can be sure.  Wherever someone is “coming from” is his/her “point of view,” of course.  It seems reasonable to recall that one point of view here is being in the “Rust Belt.” 

There are four American towns and two European ones listed that are “filing” places.  The two European towns are just ancestry and not too pertinent.  Those four American ones, however, are a life and are highly pertinent to everything published.  They’re in three states, all essentially “Rust Belt” and “old first territory.”  None are huge or tiny. 

The biggest town is Cincinnati, Ohio, and more or less the big regional center.  Only if the entire region is counted would it be something like two million people.  The city’s not near so populous.  The current location’s Covington, a few blocks away in Kentucky.  Dayton, Ohio, is city “long-lived.”  Terre Haute, Indiana, is city of long visiting. 

All four towns have a few things in common, e.g., all four can be considered “river towns.”  There is no seacoast and little navy.  Nautical terminology’s a foreign language at this desk even though the rivers are used for some boating purposes.  Some things are very different amid them.  And, this has been written for those interested in viewpoint.

Circumstances help make people what they are.