Date/Time
Date(s) - April 9, 2025
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Description
Jefferson County History Center announces our new Spring Adult Educational Programming series: Window to the Past: Hidden Histories & Stories of Jefferson County. Coming up in April:
April 9th – “Brookville’s Birdman” – The Earle Sandt Story presented by JCHC member Eric Armstrong. This fascinating story of Brookville native Earle Sandt portrays the short career of one of the daring “aeroplane” pilots in the first decade after the Wright Brothers flight. Earle was most famous for being the first American to make an international flight—a February, 1912 trip over the frozen lake from Erie, PA to Port Rowan in Canada. The return trip, however, ended up with one of his many crashes. Later that year, Earle made the first cross-country flight in Western PA, starting at what is now Walnut St. in Brookville and landing at Punxsutawney to the cacophony of all the fire whistles and church bells in the town.
This presentation is FREE to the public and will be held at the Heritage House,
4 Sylvania St., Brookville, beginning 7pm. Light refreshments will be served