SEDONA NEWS – The Sedona Heritage Museum will host a Sedona Story presentation with local historian Victoria Clark on Thursday, March 14th at 10 a.m. in the museum's historic apple packing shed. The topic of Ms. Clark's talk is the 1929 Women's Transcontinental Air Race.

In the era of breakthrough aviation, the 1929 Women's Transcontinental Air Race attracted national attention. The nine-day sprint saw 19 pilots, including Amelia Earhart, race from Santa Monica, California, to Cleveland, Ohio. The race also included stops in Yuma, Phoenix and Douglas, Arizona.

The women were celebrated at each stop in Cleveland, where 18,000 people greeted them, but the victorious race was not without tragedy, with one woman dying in an accident in Arizona. Clark hits all the highs and lows of what humorist Will Rogers called the “powder puff derby.”

Sedona Stories takes place on the second Thursday of each month at 10 a.m. at the Sedona Heritage Museum. Participation in the program is free.

The Sedona Historical Society operates the Sedona Heritage Museum at Jordan Historical Park, 735 Jordan Road in Uptown Sedona, Arizona. Open daily from 11am to 3pm. For more information, call 928-282-7038 or visit: www.sedonamuseum.org.