![]() ![]() She entered the world as Elizabeth Margaret Kennedy on December 24, 1905, and once commented to writer Jack Allman, "I was born in a mining camp one frosty night before Christmas. In this unforgiving landscape, where you are free to shape your own myth, things can become permanently frozen, even dreams. These were supposed to be the bones of an epic project, the ultimate fat book on Alaska aviation history. ![]() ![]() Over her lifetime Kennedy would accumulate files of information that, when stacked, measured 22 feet high. The bush pilots had names like Wien, Reeve, and Sheldon. She was there firsthand as a journalist to watch this character grow, rising above the nagging summer mosquitoes, off to challenge the glaciers of Denali or the lakes of Kenai. Kennedy headed north to Alaska in the 1930s and became enamored by a new character on the literary scene: the bush pilot. Originally appeared in AOPA Pilot magazine. ![]()
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