By Jana Wiersema
It started out as a simple day at the Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum.
Kris Taylor was visiting the museum with her two granddaughters, Emily and Jocelyn Vogel, and as the girls perused the free booklets the museum offers, they noticed that there weren’t any written for kids their age.
So the two of them set out to change that.
Now, after about a year of hard work, Emily and Jocelyn have finished writing their very own booklet titled “Atterbury Army Airfield and Bakalar Air Force Base: A book for kids and everyone.”
“I think anybody would really enjoy it,” Taylor said. “It tells the story of the airfield and air base in a way young people can understand. They can understand a little bit of what went on out there during World War II, and what it was like out there for the men at the airfield.”
Emily and Jocelyn, who are in the sixth and fourth grade respectively, wrote the book and researched the information that they needed for it.
For more on this story, see Wednesday’s Republic.
