FYI November 04, 2019

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On This Day

1791 – The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
The Western Confederacy, or Western Indian Confederacy, was a loose confederacy of Native Americans in the Great Lakes region of the United States following the American Revolutionary War. The confederacy was also sometimes known as the Miami Confederacy, as many federal officials at the time knew of the size of Kekionga and overestimated the influence and numerical strength of the Miami tribe within the confederation. The confederacy, which had its roots in pan-tribal movements dating to the 1740s, came together in an attempt to resist the expansion of the United States, and the encroachment of American settlers, into the Northwest Territory after Great Britain ceded the region to the United States in the 1783 Treaty of Paris. The resistance resulted in the Northwest Indian War (1785–1795), which ended with an American military victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. (Though it was rekindled by Tenskwatawa, known as The Prophet, and his brother Tecumseh.)

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Born On This Day

1909 – Evelyn Bryan Johnson, American colonel and pilot (d. 2012)
Evelyn Stone Bryan Johnson (November 4, 1909 – May 10, 2012), nicknamed “Mama Bird”, was the female pilot with the most number of flying hours in the world. She was a colonel in the Civil Air Patrol and a founding member of the Morristown, Tennessee Civil Air Patrol squadron.[1]

Biography
Born as Evelyn Stone in Corbin, Kentucky, she was a graduate of Tennessee Wesleyan College. As a young woman, she taught school in Etowah, Tennessee. Later she attended the University of Tennessee.[2][3]

She married Wyatt Jennings “W.J.” Bryan and learned to fly in 1944, while he was serving in the Army Air Corps and the couple was living in Jefferson City, Tennessee.[4] She logged 57,635.4 flying hours, and was the oldest flight instructor in the world. She trained more pilots and gave more FAA exams than any other pilot. She was named in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the most flying hours of any woman and the most of any living person.[5] Johnson was inducted into the Women in Aviation Pioneers Hall of Fame, the Tennessee and Kentucky aviation halls of fame and others. She was awarded a bronze Carnegie Medal for rescuing a helicopter pilot after he crashed.[6]

Johnson became manager of the Morristown Regional Airport in Morristown, Tennessee, in 1953.[7] She flew into her 90s despite developing eyesight problems and only quit at 96 after a car accident on September 10, 2006 resulted in her undergoing a leg amputation. Even after that, she continued to manage the airport.[5]

Evelyn’s first husband, W. J. Bryan, died on November 11, 1963. In 1965, she married Morgan Johnson, who died in 1977.[5]

On July 21, 2007, Johnson was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio,[8] alongside astronaut Sally Ride and adventurer Steve Fossett, among others. The induction was her sixth such honor.

Johnson’s scrapbooks, memorabilia, and other papers from the period 1930 to 2002 are housed in the Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee State University.[7]

Johnson died at age 102 in 2012.[2]

 
 

FYI

By Jared Leone, Cox Media Group National Content Desk: ‘One Tough Mother,’ Gert Boyle, Columbia Sportswear founder, dead at 95
 
 
 
 
The Associated Press: Krispy Kreme orders student to halt doughnut resale service
Gonzalez, also known as “The Donut Guy,” would have made his 20th run to Iowa on Saturday. He told his Facebook followers on Thursday that he has been told he has to shut down operations.
“Life happens, and it could be a sign that something else it meant to be,” Gonzalez posted.
 
 
 
 
By Christine Schmidt, Nieman Lab: How The Texas Tribune is revamping its sponsored content (and folding its five-year-old op-ed site)
 
 
 
 
By Robbi Wei, Google: Connect with news in multiple languages with Google News
 
 
 
 
By Kayla Epstein, The Washington Post: A boat got stranded in the rapids above Niagara Falls in 1918. Last week, it finally broke free.
 
 
 
 
By James Rogers, Fox News: Space capsule soars in dramatic abort test
 
 
 
 
By David K. Li, NBC News: Pregnant Florida woman uses AR-15 to fatally shoot armed intruder Two armed men broke into the house and pistol whipped husband, before wife pulled out their legally possessed weapon and opened fire.
 
 
 
 
By Savannah Tanbusch, Beyond Bylines: Blog Profiles: Dungeons & Dragons Blogs
 
 
 
 
Tara Dodrill, New Life On A Homestead: How To Grow Vegetables Indoors – The Ultimate Guide
 
 
 
 
Open Culture: The Time When Charlie Chaplin Entered a Chaplin Look-Alike Contest & Came in 20th Place; Oscar-Nominated Composer Danny Elfman Teaches an Online Course on Writing Music for Film: A Look Inside His Creative Process and more ->
 
 
 
 
The Rural Blog: Fish & Wildlife employs bubbles and noise to keep Asian carp out of Kentucky lake and more ->
 
 
 
 

Recipes

Hank Shaw, Hunter Angler Gardener Cook: Shrimp Mac and Cheese
I used spot prawns I caught while in Alaska, but really any shrimp will work, as will crawfish, crab and yes, lobster. Shrimp mac is especially good with those little pink boreal shrimp from the northern oceans; those shrimp are also sustainably caught.
 
 
Little House Big Alaska: Old Fashioned Chocolate Pecan Pie Recipe