Essays Tagged: "Iowa State Fair"

Amelia Earhart.

her, Edwin Earhart, took an executive job in 1905 with the Rock Island Line Railroad in Des Moines, Iowa. The girls were left with their grandparents in Atchison. It was not till 1908 that the girls m ... Des Moines to be with their parents. Amelia was 10 years old when she saw her first airplane at the Iowa State Fair. She saw it as, "a thing of rusty wire and wood and not at all interesting." It woul ...

(4 pages) 33 0 3.5 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

AMelia

ther always losing his jobs. In 1908, when Amelia was ten years old they were living in Des Moines, Iowa and it was at the Iowa State Fair that she saw her first plane. However, surprisingly to her kn ...

(5 pages) 38 3 4.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Restoration: Tractors and Sayings

Chris, and Jackie. Alex was thrown seventy-five feet from the car and was airlifted to Des Moines, Iowa. Chris was thrown from the car and had a big gash in his head, and Jackie just got a few scratc ... hat was the second worse day in my life.Four days after Alex died, I had to take our tractor to the Iowa State Fair. I really did not want to take the tractor because it brought back too many memories ...

(4 pages) 23 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Amelia Earhart

born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1898, I rember the day I saw my first airplane, it was at the Iowa state fair, it was not much of a site to look at, I thought it looked like a big orange crate, ...

(5 pages) 1239 0 0.0 Feb/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers