Aviation icon Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937 and there is new artwork honoring her life and her achievements.
In Derry, Northern Ireland, the North Carolina street artist Jeks was comissioned to paint a giant mural honoring Earhart on the side of a building at North West Regional College.
Earhart was a surprise visitor to Derry back in 1932, when she set off from Newfoundland, Canada heading to Paris in a bid to claim the title of the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Due to bad weather and technical problems, she landed in family’s field near Derry instead and did indeed claim the title.
Laurie Anderson’s take on Amelia Earhart
Later this summer Laurie Anderson will release ‘Amelia,’ a twenty-two track album inspired by Earhart’s last flight. One cut is out now and Anderson is doing interviews in advance of the album’s release.
