Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

Today in 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman and only the second person to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. But she wasn’t the first female pilot - in fact, she learned to fly from another well-known woman aviator. Plus: around this time in 2006, a park in Boston got an odd new addition now known as the Jamaica Pond Bench. Neta Snook (Ames History)What’s up with the bizarre U-shaped bench in Jamaica Plain? (Boston.com) Wing on over to our Patreon page and back our show