Thursday, May 31, 2012

Paris plane crash spurs cultural growth in Atlanta



This May 4, 2012 video frame grab shows a framed portrait of Henrietta Collier Armstrong Ayer, who died fifty years ago in a plane crash, in her daughter's Atlanta home. Penny Hart was a 19-year-old college sophomore studying at the Sorbonne when her mother was aboard the returning chartered Air France plane carrying a group of Atlanta’s cultural leaders that crashed on takeoff at Orly Field in Paris. (AP Photo/Kate Brumback) Fifty years ago, a group of 106 influential cultural and civic leaders from Atlanta traveled to Europe to visit famous museums and demonstrate the ascendant southern city's commitment to culture.








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