From the October 19, 2014, Goldsboro (N.C.) News-Argus by AP.
Amanda Wright Lane Says Loved Ones Always Believed They Would Achieve Flight.
About 50 years ago, Amanda Wright Lane's third-grade teacher told the class that the Wright brothers were the first to achieve flight. She thought to herself that that wasn't right.. The first to fly were Uncle Wil and Uncle Orv.
She remembers that her extended family would gather every Sunday to tell stories about her famous uncles who ran a bicycle shop in Dayton and were fond of practical jokes. And, they had the conviction that one day, they would fly.
The family supported them, but neighbors thought they were wasting their time.
She is the Wright brothers' great grand-niece and has been traveling the world since the 2003 centennial celebration of the historic December 17, 1903, flight at Kill Devil Hill in North Carolina. She was born in 1953 and is the descendant of Wilbur and Orville's older brother Lorin.
More to Come. --"Air" Cooter.
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