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Ex Libris: The Wright Brothers

In this latest installment in our ‘Ex Libris’ series, we look at a library and a book that impacted the two men who would give wings to the world.
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Ex Libris: The Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers around 1905: (L) Orville age 34, and Wilbur at 38. Library of Congress. Public Domain
Jeff Minick
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On Dec. 17, 1903, brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright each made two flights using a heavier-than-air machine on the sandy beach of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The longest of these flights lasted 59 seconds.

Not quite 66 years later, astronauts walked on the moon.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.