Perhaps this letter written by my cousin, Mrs. Georgia Hawkins of Indianapolis, to her sister about 1917-1918 will be of interest to some of your readers.
Dear Virginia:
Am sending you under separate cover a couple of pictures taken of me upon return from my airship ride. It was this way—I had watched that airship buzz over my head so often that I just simply had to go up in it. So I hiked myself down to the inlet and just climbed in and went. And such