"Birdmen Over Boston Harbor" with historian Wayne G. Miller

Local historian Wayne G. Miller will take you back to the year 1910 when the first international aviation meet on the East Coast was staged at Squantum. Aviation legends Wilbur Wright and Glenn Curtiss came to Quincy at a time when no one in New England had seen or heard an airplane in flight. This unprecedented phenomenon created an explosion of enthusiasm. An estimated one million people either paid to see the spectacle at Aviation Field or found viewing points along beaches in Dorchester, South Boston, and Quincy.

The slide presentation contains photographs of the aviators and their primitive airplanes as well as a map that shows exactly where the meet was held during the first two weeks September 1910. Come find out about this historic event in Quincy’s history!

WAYNE G. MILLER

Wayne has been a collector of pre-WWI aviation postcards for 15 years and many are featured within his book: Birdmen Over Boston Harbor: The 1910 Harvard-Boston Aero Meet. He is the author of Fore River Shipyard, Quincy Massachusetts: A Shipbuilding Tradition, and co-author of A Quincy Book of Days. This is his fourth book about Quincy and third published by Quincy Historical Society. He is also principal writer of Quincy History, the Society’s newsletter.

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