Last updated: August 3, 2021
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13 - If you decide to try your machine here…you will find a hospitable people…
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WAYSIDE TITLE: If you decide to try your machine here…you will find a hospitable people…-William J. Tate, Kitty Hawk Postmaster, in a letter to Wilbur Wright dated August 18, 1900.
WAYSIDE LAYOUT: Landscape-oriented rectangular panel featuring a black band across the top. The black band has text that reads, “Wright Brothers National Memorial” and “National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior.” The panel features a large black and white image on the background, text in two columns across the top and 1 small black and white photograph to the right of the text.
VIEW FROM WAYSIDE: In the distance, to the left is the hill with the Wright Brothers Monument atop it. To the right is the First flight sculpture. Directly behind the wayside, about 20 feet is the parking area and road.
DESCRIPTION OF BACKGROUND IMAGE: A large black and white photograph of the 1903 flyer as it rests on the launching rail on the slope of the sandy dune. Behind the flyer to the right is a group of people. From left to right there are 2 men stand with a dog between them and a small boy stands next to them. Farther behind them is another man and a small boy, and finally a lone man stands farther to the right.
TEXT: Wilbur and Orville Wright accepted Tate’s invitation and found that the Outer Banks of North Carolina not only provided hospitable people but also the conditions that they needed to fly – wind, sand, and solitude. While solitude was important to get the work done, the Wrights did not work alone. From 1900 to 1903, families from the local communities and the crews from the local life saving stations provided much-needed assistance to the Wrights. On the morning of December 17, 1903, the Wrights signaled for help and “John T. Daniels, W.S. Dough, A.D. Etheridge, W.C. Brinkley of Manteo, and Johnny Moore of Nags Head arrive,” wrote Orville. With their help the Flyer was moved to the launch rail. The men then cheered as the Flyer lifted off the ground.The “First Flight” sculpture captures the Wrights’ historic achievement and the hospitable people who supported them. Local families and descendants of the first flight witnesses continue to welcome visitors to the Memorial and the Outer Banks.
DESCRIPTION #1: A black and white photograph of a family posing for a picture on a porch. On the left side, a man wearing a hat, a light-colored jacket, and dark pants, sits in a chair with a small child in his lap. On the right side, in front of a window, an older woman in a dark colored dress is sitting in a chair. A younger woman in a white shirt and dark skirt stands just behind her right shoulder and a small girl stands in front of the woman, resting her hand in the woman’s lap. On the ground in front of them is a medium sized white dog with dark spots looking off to the left.
CAPTION: The Tate family, on the porch of the Kitty Hawk Post Office.
WAYSIDE LAYOUT: Landscape-oriented rectangular panel featuring a black band across the top. The black band has text that reads, “Wright Brothers National Memorial” and “National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior.” The panel features a large black and white image on the background, text in two columns across the top and 1 small black and white photograph to the right of the text.
VIEW FROM WAYSIDE: In the distance, to the left is the hill with the Wright Brothers Monument atop it. To the right is the First flight sculpture. Directly behind the wayside, about 20 feet is the parking area and road.
DESCRIPTION OF BACKGROUND IMAGE: A large black and white photograph of the 1903 flyer as it rests on the launching rail on the slope of the sandy dune. Behind the flyer to the right is a group of people. From left to right there are 2 men stand with a dog between them and a small boy stands next to them. Farther behind them is another man and a small boy, and finally a lone man stands farther to the right.
TEXT: Wilbur and Orville Wright accepted Tate’s invitation and found that the Outer Banks of North Carolina not only provided hospitable people but also the conditions that they needed to fly – wind, sand, and solitude. While solitude was important to get the work done, the Wrights did not work alone. From 1900 to 1903, families from the local communities and the crews from the local life saving stations provided much-needed assistance to the Wrights. On the morning of December 17, 1903, the Wrights signaled for help and “John T. Daniels, W.S. Dough, A.D. Etheridge, W.C. Brinkley of Manteo, and Johnny Moore of Nags Head arrive,” wrote Orville. With their help the Flyer was moved to the launch rail. The men then cheered as the Flyer lifted off the ground.The “First Flight” sculpture captures the Wrights’ historic achievement and the hospitable people who supported them. Local families and descendants of the first flight witnesses continue to welcome visitors to the Memorial and the Outer Banks.
DESCRIPTION #1: A black and white photograph of a family posing for a picture on a porch. On the left side, a man wearing a hat, a light-colored jacket, and dark pants, sits in a chair with a small child in his lap. On the right side, in front of a window, an older woman in a dark colored dress is sitting in a chair. A younger woman in a white shirt and dark skirt stands just behind her right shoulder and a small girl stands in front of the woman, resting her hand in the woman’s lap. On the ground in front of them is a medium sized white dog with dark spots looking off to the left.
CAPTION: The Tate family, on the porch of the Kitty Hawk Post Office.