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commercial pilot and flight instructor, Erik Lindbergh is the grandson
of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh and serves as chairman and director
of the Lindbergh Foundation. Mr. Lindbergh is also a member of the Board
of Trustees of the X Prize Foundation, works in public relations for
Columbia Aircraft Manufacturing, is one of four founding X-Racer pilots
in the Rocket Racing League and is a founding board member of the
Aviation High School in Seattle, Washington.
In the summer of 2000 he contemplated a startling notion: Could a former flight instructor, sidelined by crippling rheumatoid arthritis, recreate the Spirit's famous flights from San Diego to Paris, including the 3,600 mile nonstop journey from New York over the treacherous North Atlantic. On May 2, 2002, Erik landed the "New Spirit of St. Louis" at Le Bourget Airport to mark the 75th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's epic transatlantic flight.
The
Coolidges lived in Patterson House on Dupont Circle in 1927 while the
White House was undergoing repairs. This stunning Beaux Arts home,
designed by noted architect Stanford White to resemble a traditional
Renaissance palace, is the only remaining mansion on the circle once
surrounded by several magnificent structures. Built for Robert Patterson
of Chicago, editor of the Chicago Tribune and his wife Elinor Medill
Patterson, it was the scene of elegant entertaining. Their daughter
Eleanor "Cissy" Patterson, writer, socialite, and publisher of
the Washington Times-Herald, was deeded this house in 1923 by her mother
and continued the family's tradition and lifestyle.
The Patterson House Preservation Foundation, created in 1983 to preserve Patterson House and the Dupont Circle Historic Area, is dependent upon the support of the community to achieve this mission.
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