REPOSITORY:
Southern Appalachian Archives, Liston B. Ramsey Center for Appalachian Studies, Mars Hill University
COLLECTION TITLE:
Nina L. Paxton Papers, 1937-1970
COLLECTION NUMBER:
00010
CREATOR:
Nina Lear Margaret Paxton (Mrs. C.B. Paxton)
LANGUAGE OF MATERIAL:
Material in English
EXTENT:
0.5 linear feet
LOCATION:
These materials are located in the Southern Appalachian Archives in Renfro Library, Mars Hill University. For assistance, please call (828) 689-1262 or e-mail archives@mhu.edu.
ABSTRACT:
This is the collection of Nina Paxton's correspondence, personal accounts, and newspaper and magazine articles related to her hearing Amelia Earhart's distress calls on her short-wave radio in Ashland, Kentucky, after Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared in the Pacific on July 2, 1937.