Skylark: The Life, Lies, and Inventions of Harry Atwood - Hardcover
Skylark:The Life, Lies and Inventions of Harry Atwood is the story of one of the greatpioneers in American aviation chasing the dream of flight. Harry Atwood was aWright Brothers-trained aviator, inventor and con man, a headline hero whofascinated the media for three decades and died in obscurity in Hanging Dog,North Carolina in the days before the moon landing.
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Howard Mansfield remembers the first time he heard about Harry Atwood. Aneighbor told him, "There was this man who lived in Greenfield in the 1930s. Hecovered an old house top to bottom in cement and stone. He built a swimmingpool, floated an airplane in the pool all winter. Took the airplane out of thepool, flew to the White House, landed right there, and had lunch with thePresident." From this intriguing report--all true, though not in thatorder--sprang Mansfield's five years of work on the book.
"Like most of the stories Atwood told and the ones told about him, they aremade up of truth and lies," Mansfield writes in Skylark. "But each truth andeach lie is enfolded over the other like so many things in nature--flower buds,onions, tree rings, certain rock deposits. Tightly bound layers of deceit andhonesty. So tight that what Harry Atwood said was at once false and true. WhenHarry told a story it was composed much like Duply, thin layers of wood andplastic bonded under pressure until it was so strong it could stop a bullet. Soit was when Harry Atwood talked, falsehood and fact, exaggeration and honestreport. A chemical formulation that might read: truth-lie-lie-truth-truth-lie.
"In all things, Harry Atwood was an inventor."
"Like most of the stories Atwood told and the ones told about him, they aremade up of truth and lies," Mansfield writes in Skylark. "But each truth andeach lie is enfolded over the other like so many things in nature--flower buds,onions, tree rings, certain rock deposits. Tightly bound layers of deceit andhonesty. So tight that what Harry Atwood said was at once false and true. WhenHarry told a story it was composed much like Duply, thin layers of wood andplastic bonded under pressure until it was so strong it could stop a bullet. Soit was when Harry Atwood talked, falsehood and fact, exaggeration and honestreport. A chemical formulation that might read: truth-lie-lie-truth-truth-lie.
"In all things, Harry Atwood was an inventor."
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- PublisherUniv Pr of New England
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0874518911
- ISBN 13 9780874518917
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