WAPA Cookout Pizza & Presentation. Tuesday Sept. 25th

George Clark writes: … We kick off the fall meetings with a cookout and presentation:

When: Tuesday September 25th. Cookout at 6:00 PM, Meeting at 7pm.

We'll be in the baggage area at the ORH terminal again, and the grill will be outside on the ramp near the "commuter" gates 5 & 6. If the weather turns into a washout, our alternate plan is to send out for Pizza. (Cookout is now pizza due to predicted inclement weather)

Featured Speaker: John Galluzzo is the co-author of the book: Massachusetts Aviation, Massachusetts (Images of Aviation Series)

Historian John Galluzzo is the author of more than a dozen Arcadia titles, including Squantum and South Weymouth Naval Air Stations (Massachusetts) and Millville Army Air Field (New Jersey).

"Shortly after the Wright brothers took to the air, aviation fever gripped Massachusetts. The biggest names in the industry, including Wilbur Wright, Glenn Curtiss, and Claude Graham-White, among others, flew in for the first major air shows, further exciting the people of the Bay State about the potential of manned flight in the realms of military tactics, the expansion of commerce, and even personal transportation. By the 1920s, Massachusetts had become home to the first Naval Air Reserve Base, in Quincy; one of the first Coast Guard Air Stations, in Gloucester; and the Boston Airfield, which would become the largest international airport in New England. Within a few decades, individuals like Edward Lawrence Logan, Frank Otis, Oscar Westover, and Laurence G. Hanscomb would permanently leave their names on the Massachusetts landscape in connection with the airports and airfields still used today."

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-- GeorgeClark - 19 Sep 2018