(PHOTO: Earhart’s letter to The New York Times’ publisher.)
History is always timely.
Many are thinking about women of achievement in the wake of the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
One of Rye’s own (we think) was Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Part of her fight to be treated equal was a letter to The New York Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger in 1932 that she be called by her “professional name” of Earhart and not “Mrs. Putnam”, her married name.