Monday, September 17, 2012

Persistent Stories


Stories persist that Charles Lindbergh, a member of Keystone Lodge 243 in St. Louis, wore a square and compasses sewn on his jacket, and also had a square and compasses attached to his plane's dashboard on his famous flight across the Atlantic.  Most likely, neither is true.  Photographs taken of Lindbergh on the day of his flight show nothing sewn on his jacket.  Also, the few existing pictures of his plane's cockpit from that era show no square and compasses.