Join the Explorers Club and the Breaking Barriers committee on March 10th to celebrate the life of pioneering author and explorer Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
On May 27th, 1929, Anne Spencer Morrow, a quite shy, prize-winning English major and graduate of Smith College, married Charles A. Lindbergh, the most famous aviator of his time and the world’s first media star. Not surprisingly this changed her life radically. In five years, by 1934, she would be referred to in the media as the “First Lady of Aviation” on her own merits. This amazing transformation would not only include her learning to fly, getting her radio license, and becoming a fully licensed glider pilot, but also opened the door to many very real flying accomplishments and adventures as she accompanied her husband as navigator, radio operator, and co-pilot, exploring the uses of aviation, then a new technology, in exploration, science, communication, and relief work.
Anne’s contributions to exploration include:
- Acting as co-pilot and navigator with her husband to set a transcontinental record.
- Spotting from the air an important and previously undiscovered Mayan temple.
- Photo-documenting areas of the Canyon de Chelly that are still extremely difficult to reach.
- Identifying a previously unknown mountain range in Greenland.
- Flying 40,000 miles with her husband acting as co-pilot, radio operator, and navigator, surveying national and international air routes, many still in use today.
- Making a record breaking radio transmission of 3,000 miles, establishing a new long distance record.
Her two books on her flying experiences during the Golden Age of Flight were best sellers and won the National Bookseller Association National Book Awards for non-fiction. Her first book, NORTH TO THE ORIENT, marking it’s 90th year in print in 2025, won the first National Book Award for non-fiction in 1935.
This in-person event at the Explorers Club Headquarters will include an audience Q&A.
Streaming live here on explorers.org, our YouTube Channel, and our Facebook Live — Monday, March 10th at 7:00 pm ET.
RESERVATIONS
This will be an in-person lecture at Explorers Club Headquarters.
In-person tickets are $20 for Members, and $35 for the General Public.
Check-in will begin at 6:00 pm, with a beer and wine reception from 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Dorothy Cochrane
Dorothy Cochrane is a curator in the Aeronautics Department of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. She is responsible for the collections of general aviation aircraft and flight materiel, aerial cameras, and the history of women in aviation. The co-author of The Aviation Careers of Igor Sikorsky, she has written on Amelia Earhart, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, women in aviation and general aviation. Cochrane is the curator for the Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight gallery and the Thomas W. Haas We All Fly gallery, as well as exhibits at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.
Reeve Lindbergh
Reeve Lindbergh is the youngest daughter of aviator-authors Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. She grew up in Connecticut, graduated from Radcliffe College in 1967, and moved to northern Vermont. She lives on an old farm near St. Johnsbury, with her husband, writer Nat Tripp and an assortment of animals, enjoying visits from children and grandchildren. Reeve has served with a number of non-profit boards, including the Vermont State Library Advisory board and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and is the author of more than two dozen books for children and adults. Her most recent book is Two Lives, a collection of essays reflecting upon her own life in Vermont and the complex history of her family. (Brigantine Media 2018)
Kristina Lindbergh
The eldest daughter of Jon Lindbergh (oldest surviving child of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh – and Reeve’s older brother), Kristina grew up on the west coast but earned English and Fiction Writing degrees from Middlebury and Sarah Lawrence Colleges. After working at several New York publishing houses in the ‘70s and ‘80s, she moved with her husband, Robert Conte, to Westchester County to raise two daughters. She has taught ballet at a local academy for more than thirty years, and performed occasionally with the Westchester Ballet Company. Kristina has served on the boards of the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation, the Earth Shine Foundation, the Westchester Ballet Company, and the Yorktown Land Trust. Now the grandmother of five, she is presently at work on a book of her grandmother’s writings about grief.
