{"id":3086,"date":"2016-01-22T02:13:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T05:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandybeachgirl.com\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2016-01-22T02:13:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T05:13:16","slug":"wilbur-orville-and-kitty-hawk-and-bahs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandybeachgirl.com\/?p=3086","title":{"rendered":"Wilbur & Orville and Kitty Hawk AND B\u00e4hs"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is mid-August 1900. Wilbur Wright after being admonished by his father to find purpose in his life decides to untangle the mystery of flight. It has long been on his mind since that day his father brought home a simple flying toy. After much urging Orville agrees to join him in the quest. And so after getting favorable reports from both the weather master at Kitty Hawk and postmaster, Wilbur immediately leaves from Dayton to see for himself. Orville plans to follow a few weeks later. Here is a letter from Orville to their sister, Katharine, after he arrives in Elizabeth City by train.<\/p>\n

\"hotel\"<\/a>

Orville’s letter home and trying to find Wilbur<\/p><\/div>\n

The Hotel Arlington<\/em><\/p>\n

Elizabeth City NC Sep 26th 1900<\/em><\/p>\n

Dear Swes;<\/em><\/p>\n

It is only two hours since I wrote you from Norfolk, but having got a trace of Will here I send the news on at once. Trying to find Will at Kitty Hawk reminds me very much of a relief expedition to some lost Arctic explorer. The hotel clerk tells me Will was here four or five weeks ago he thinks – in fact is almost sure – it will be just five weeks tomorrow that he left. The hotel people are very accommodating and propose putting a man at hunting up the available way of reaching Kitty Hawk, They say the trip across is pretty much like “life” – uncertain, we know not at what moment we may arrive.<\/em><\/p>\n

Do not let the store business worry you. Have Lorin attend to it, if he will. Harry Wellon is to be paid $4.50 Saturday night: ie: $4.50 per week. We will settle with Chrls\u00a0<\/em>when we get back. If he needs any money, however, let him have it.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"orville<\/a>

Orville’s drawing of a fish from side and top<\/p><\/div>\n

The post office here closes at noon so I have not learned whether there is any word from Will.\u00a0him<\/del><\/em><\/p>\n

I was down on the wharf looking at the little fish in the water. They were different from anything I had seen. One was a long green thing but a pointed nose. Three or four inches long like this: (a drawing). Then like this (another drawing) it managed to move along by working those fins on top cross wise to the way it was going. The life like view given is from\u00a0the<\/del> above. That is the reason the tail was wrong first time. I hear the dinner bell ringing which means one o’clock, or twelve by your time.<\/em><\/p>\n

Goodbye,<\/em><\/p>\n

Orville<\/em><\/p>\n

Tell Harry to sell those rolls of tire tape in box back of what he has been selling at 5 cents a roll. They were ten cents rolls, but we must get rid of them. They are\u00a0tied<\/del> in tin foil wrapping.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Wilbur’s letter to Katharine upon leaving Kitty Hawk<\/p><\/div>\n

Hotel Central<\/em><\/p>\n

Poindexter Street\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Elizabeth City NC October 23 1900<\/em><\/p>\n

Dear Sterchers<\/em><\/p>\n

We have said “Good bye Kitty, Good bye Hawk, good bye Kitty Hawk, we’re going to leave you now.” We reached\u00a0you<\/del> here this afternoon, after a pleasant trip from Kitty Hawk of six hours. It took me forty five hours going down there\u00a0<\/del>and Orville sixteen hours. We will go on to Norfolk tomorrow and will probably stay over a day to see the ship yards at Newport News. If we do so we will reach home Saturday night at any rate so you must have grub for four Sunday. Poor Bubbo (Little Bubbo) has only tasted beaf steak one or two meals in the last fifty or so, and I suspect he will sink his teeth into a nice tender porterhouse with peculiar pleasure. We are now at the Central, the Arlington being no more. We had a fair supper. I have gained a few pounds since leaving home, and Orville is as heavy as when he left. we both look like niggers by reason of our sunburnt faces and hands. I took a look at myself in a glass today for the first time in five or six weeks and was somewhat surprised. We will have some “amosin” stories to tell when we get home.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cheer up Sterchens, we will be home in about a day after you receive this. We have missed\u00a0our<\/span>\u00a0little baby sister like anything, you may be sure. Remember we will be home Saturday night and will be hungry as “b\u00e4hs” Sunday. A fellow warned me not to go ashore going down to K.H. saying he would be afraid of “b\u00e4h.” I do not know whether the hungry animals which flew out at me were the “b\u00e4h” he meant but they are my standard of hungryness.<\/em><\/p>\n

Your loving burro,<\/em><\/p>\n

Will<\/em><\/p>\n

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In doing research for a children’s book I’m writing using animal characters to tell the story of the Wright brothers on the Outer Banks I came across copies of letters to their steady supporter, Katharine. These two are among the first they sent to her after arriving in Kitty Hawk. And actually we still have those b\u00e4hs around.<\/p>\n

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