The sparkling new hangar-museum at Atchison’s Amelia Earhart Memorial Airport doesn’t just pay tribute to its namesake’s life and career. “Yes, she was lost,” says Karen Seaberg, founder and president of the Atchison Amelia Earhart Foundation. Seaberg gave me an enthusiastic tour the museum Monday, as staffers worked to tie up loose ends before the museum’s opening. “The new Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum will celebrate a woman who showed us what it means to ‘reach for the stars,’ ” Kelly said in a news release from the museum. That bravery — rather than a disappearance that has fueled countless late-night cable shows — marks the Atchison museum.

Source: CNN April 13, 2023 14:35 UTC