Backyard History talk in Halifax | Beryl Markham and the Record Breaking Cape Breton Bog Crash

Wed Nov 27 2024 at 07:00 pm UTC-04:00

Halifax Central Library | Halifax

Backyard History
Publisher/HostBackyard History
Backyard History talk in Halifax | Beryl Markham and the Record Breaking Cape Breton Bog Crash
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In 1936 an airplane with a dead engine glided low over isolated and tiny Cape Breton community of Balaine, home to about 20 people. Three children followed the doomed plane, climbing up a hill, and spotting it crashed, nose-down, in a bog. Next to the plane, wounded and stuck in the mud, was pioneering pilot Beryl Markham. She had just become the first person to ever fly from England to North America, and the whole world was searching for her…
Book reading, signing, Q&A, sale
Beryl Markham's Historic Flight That Crash Landed In A Cape Breton Bog
Halifax Central Library
Wednesday, November 27th at 7 pm
Paul O’Regan Hall
5440 Spring Garden Rd. Halifax
Free | All are welcome
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