A little-known man by the name of Melville Milton Murrell flew decades before the Wright brothers
I’m old enough to remember being taught in school that Christopher Columbus was the first European to “discover” America. Back then, in the medieval times of the early 1980s, there were inklings, whispers and wild rumors that others had arrived in the Americas before old Christopher Columbus did. But I promise you, when it came time to put the answer down on the test, you wrote Columbus and forgot about Leif Erikson or whoever else the punk-rock historians were touting as the true finders of a continent.
Growing up, for me at least, was learning about the folds, the gaps and the wholes of what we call history. Learning about the parts we’ve chosen to remember and then learning about the parts that are forgotten. One of the blessings of moving around is discovering some of the local history that never makes it to the bigger books…