{"id":2946,"date":"2013-04-13T13:29:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T20:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2013-06-02T08:30:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T15:30:48","slug":"those-magnificent-men-in-their-flying-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/those-magnificent-men-in-their-flying-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Those magnificent men in their flying machines"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Danas<\/a>Another day, another bit of serendipity. This one comes via my newly met second cousin, once-removed, Dana. I don’t believe I’ve ever actually met her (yet), but my uncle mentioned my blog to her (thanks, Dan!) and our common interest in family history quickly became apparent.<\/p>\n

Dana’s father and my grandfather were brothers. Dana saw my posts about my grandfather on a pony<\/a> (next to her father on his bicycle), and my grandfather in his dog-powered cart<\/a>, and they made her think of a photo she had of the Prettyman boys in their homemade airplane. She sent that photo along to me, along with a painting she did of the photo.<\/p>\n

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\"Danas<\/a><\/p>\n

According to a scan of an article Dana forwarded along (below), which reproduces the photo along with a caption written by the son of Joan Ren\u00e9e Prettyman (the younger sister of the three Prettyman boys: Bob (Robert Austin), Bill (William Eugene), and Arch (Richard Francis)), the youngest brother (Arch) did a test flight of this questionable flying machine from the roof of their garage in Wadena, Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Contrary to the date cited in the caption, I believe this photo was taken in the late 1920s, not the late 1930s. In 1929, the boys would have been 13, 10, and 8 years old.<\/p>\n

\"Newspaper<\/a><\/p>\n

If you know anything else about this story, or have similar stories to share, please leave a comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another day, another bit of serendipity. This one comes via my newly met second cousin, once-removed, Dana. I don’t believe I’ve ever actually met her (yet), but my uncle mentioned my blog to her (thanks, Dan!) and our common interest … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[39,52,139,20,138,140],"tags":[207],"class_list":["post-2946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1920s","category-1930s","category-arch-prettyman","category-william-eugene-prettyman","category-bob-prettyman","category-joan-prettyman","tag-minnesota"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}