Lindbergh grandson to visit Wrights’ former home

Charles Lindbergh’s grandson will visit the former Oakwood home of Orville Wright Monday, according to the home’s owner and caretaker organization, Dayton History.

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Erik Lindbergh, grandson of pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, will meet the media there, Dayton History said. His grandfather visited the home nearly 90 years ago.

Dayton History, which owns the Oakwood mansion, said Lindbergh will “re-enact a historic moment when Charles Lindbergh appeared on the balcony of Hawthorn Hill.”

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Lindbergh was visiting Orville Wright privately in June 1927, a month after his historic solo flight from New York to Paris, when people seeking a glimpse of the famous pilot formed a crowd outside the home, Dayton History noted in a release.

Erik Lindbergh will recreate the moment with Stephen Wright, great-grandnephew of the Wright brothers, at 10:45 a.m. Monday.

The event is not open to the public.

Hawthorn Hill is a national historic landmark and unit of the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. The mansion is owned and operated by Dayton History, which has planned a public open house of it on April 23 from 12 to 5 p.m., in cooperation with the Oakwood Historical Society.

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