amelia erhardt is a social worker from boston who comes next. in our quest remember her or solve the mystery of how she disappeared, we seem to have forgotten almost everything about how she actually lived. the fact of the matter is, in 1927 and 1928, amelia erhardt wasn't a famous pilot. she was a licensed pilot. but. but by her own admission she wasn't doing much flying anymore. she was working at a settlement house in boston, what people in boston now call chinatown. she was helping new immigrants to this country learn how to speak english, learn how to get a job. it was here that the settlement house in 1928, six months after ruth elder. the businessman would discover her including her future husband george putnam, of putnam publishing. and they would put amelia erhart on a seaplane sitting in boston harbor flown by men, a plane that was going to be going across the atlantic. on this first flight, amelia had no job to sit behind the two men who were at the controls and take notes. for a book that she would write for george putnam, if they ma