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The National Park Service is cancelling the annual Aviation Day Program at Indiana Dunes National Park. The program, offered the last two years at the Indiana Dunes Visitor Center in August, celebrates Octave Chanute’s pioneering glider flights in the dunes during the late 1890’s. His work played a major role in the development of the airplane by the Wright Brothers.
Due to the difficulty in social distancing for such a popular program, Aviation Day is cancelled for 2020 with hopes that it can return in the summer of 2021. One of the highlights of this year’s program was to be the showing of the new documentary, “Octave Chanute: Patron Saint of Flight” by local filmmaker Paul Nelson. Fortunately, the film will be shown locally on public broadcasting stations. Lakeshore Public TV (Merrillville), will air it on Sunday, July 5th at 8:00 pm CDT and WNIT (South Bend) will show it on July 30th at 8:00 pm EDT. Other showings are planned; check your local listings for future opportunities to learn about this important part of our Indiana dunes history.
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Indiana Dunes National Park is one of more than 420 units of the National Park System ranging from Yellowstone to the Statue of Liberty. Located in Northwest Indiana, the park includes 15 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline and 15,000 acres of biodiverse beaches, woods, prairies, and marshes. Up to 3 million visitors come to the Indiana Dunes each year.
Last updated: June 29, 2020