Carolina sun

 as the heat of the Carolina sun poured down 

brothers Wilbur and Orville worked

 to overcome the skeptical naysayers.

first building then improving while

 experimenting with their flying machine

 amid the blowing hot sands at Kitty hawk.

such unbelievable excitement and courage 

 while maintaining calm composure and 

persistence on the way to their goal.

it was one hundred years ago the Wright 

brothers  from Dayton, Ohio calmly unveiled

 a gift to the world: the flying machine.

what a time this 20th Century.

no sooner did the first horseless carriages   

begin shaking, throwing dust and rattling  up and down the 

streets when flyers appeared in the sky overhead.

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Pulitzer winning author David McCullough 

brings to life the story of the great adventure -

how man began to soar like the birds: The Wright Brothers