amelia ehrhardt is a social worker from boston who comes next in our quest to remember ehrhardt or tothe mystery of how she disappeared we seem to have forgotten almost everything about how she actually lived. the fact of the matters in 19207 and 19,208,000,000 ehrhardt was not a famouss pilot. she was a licensed pilot. by your own admission she wasn't doing much flying anymore. she was working at a settlement house on tyler street in boston not people now called chinatown. she is helping new immigrants to this country learn how to speak english. learn how to get a job. it was here at the settlement house in 19208, six months after ruth elder's flight connected east coast businessmen would discover her. including your future husband george putnam of putnam publishing. they would pit amelia ehrhardt on a seaplane sitting in boston harbor flown by men. planes that were going to be going across the atlantic. on this first flight and meal he to sit behind the two men who were at the control intake notes. for a book that she would write for george putnam if they made it, if they survived.

her here pictured with amelia earhart one year earlier in 1932 after the first ever all-female amelia ehrhardttrophy. you probably haven't heard, most people haven't. you only think about women in aviation in the 20sen and 30s and we tend to think about one or two women. coleman, the first black female aviator in this country and the only one died in a crash in 1826 or amelia ehrhardt. when you think about amelia, would like to think of her alone plane over the ocean, alone in those cultural headwinds but of the time amelia was flying, other women were flying with. each of them was brave, each was bold. some of them arguably objectively or perhaps more talented in the cockpit than amelia. today we've forgotten almost everything. their battles and losses, their friendship and rivalries, what they fought for, how hard they fought we've forgotten that possible victory over them and in 1930. ...

in particular, these three here, amelia ehrhardt and louise. they quickly realized they could compete against one another and try to fight one another across the ocean and amelia and ruth nichols lied to one another about their transatlantic plans, both didn't walk the other one to know what they were hoping to do, each understood the first woman to cross the ocean would have that key to the room but on the ground they recognize right away and indeed they would become good friends because could understand ruth nichols better than amelia ehrhardt? i often thought about the early 1930s, what it would have been like if you went off to kindergarten and preschool and how little she would have had in common with the other mothers. so they did become really close and i found a lot of evidence of that. in 1932, amelia will fly the atlantic and 1935 ad, wanted to fly solo honolulu to oakland, california. it's a common flight today but at the time flying a single engine plane alone across that stretch of ocean was very dangerous and many men had gone to