The obsessive urge to get airborne unites the singing dreamers in ''Take Flight,'' an ambitious concept musical about the pioneering spirits of American aviation making its United States premiere at the McCarter Theater Center here. On a windy Southern beach Orville and Wilbur Wright pore over physics statistics to a disjointed melody, their...

KNEELING on the dining room floor, Evan Lattimer sliced open a cardboard box and braced herself for what might be inside: a lock of human hair, a half-smoked cigar, an arcane torture device, perhaps? Her face broke into a smile as she peeled away the bubble wrap: a dinosaur egg. ''You just never knew with Dad,'' she said. When her father, John...

DURING mud season, which is now, the squelching, rutted, mile-long and very steep road to Reeve Lindbergh's farm is not for wimps. In fact, her directions to visitors implore, ''Don't lose heart!'' (That's after the part that says, ''Drive north forever!'') But Ms. Lindbergh offers an enthusiastic welcome to those who make it. Tousle-haired and...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. (4. februar 1902 – 26. august 1974), kendt som "Lucky Lindy" og "The Lone Eagle", var en amerikansk flyver som var berømt for at være den første til at flyve non-stop solo over Atlanterhavet i 1927. Lindbergh har modtaget Medal of Honor.