Lockheed Electra airplane

September 10, 2021 | Lew Toulmin, PhD, FRGS

Blog Amelia Earhart: Find Me the Lass That’s Gone, Part 4

This sweet, sad, serious song is adapted from the Skye Boat Song, about Bonnie Prince Charlie, written in 1884 by Sir Harold Boulton, and sung to the same tune.  My version below also draws on the beautiful version written by Bear McCreary and sung by Raya Yarbrough for the current TV series Outlander. I wrote […]

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September 3, 2021 | Lew Toulmin, PhD, FRGS

Blog: A Sarky Song about Earhart Theories: Off We Go, Into the Wild Bird Guano!, Part 3

If you Google “Songs about Amelia Earhart,” you will find various songs about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, Fred Noonan, and their Lockheed Electra 10E.  Not to be outdone, I wrote a couple myself.  When I participated in a major Earhart expedition, I was told that my songs and singing in general helped to bring […]

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August 25, 2021 | Lew Toulmin, PhD, FRGS

Blog: Bizarre and Minor Amelia Earhart Theories, and How to Get Involved in the Real Scientific Search, Part 2

Last week we examined the major plausible theories for the disappearance in July 1937 of Amelia Earhart in her beautiful Lockheed Electra.  But there are other, minor, theories, and some really bizarre ones, as follows. First: Amelia became Tokyo Rose.  This is the silliest theory of all. There was no one person who broadcast as […]

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