Join us next Wednesday, March 18th for a program on the fascinating life of Maude Tait, born in Chicopee, whose family, among other business interests, owned the property that would one day become Springfield Airport. Later generations know it as the Springfield Plaza, but in the Roaring Twenties, it was the site of important advances in aviation under the Granville Brothers.
Maude Tait was one of the era’s symbolic “modern women,” an aviatrix whose home base was the Springfield Airport. She raced the famed Gee Bee planes. She was the first woman licensed pilot in Massachusetts, set speed records (and beat famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart’s record!)
Sue Bousquet, docent at the Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History, will present a talk on this remarkable woman for Women’s History Month.
Presented at the Chicopee Public Library (449 Front Street, Chicopee) beginning at 6:30 p.m. The program is free and open to the public.
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