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JASON HOOK
Owners Glenn Powel, left, and Scott Kimberley were entranced the first time
they saw the property 20 years ago.
Amelia Earhart and helped to start the 99ers pilots, a group
still active today. She also was the first woman hired as a byline
writer for the Hartford Courant.”
She also became the Courant’s first aviation editor. In the
1930s, while employed by the Walt Disney Corp. in Southern
California, she wrote the script for the original Dumbo movie
and drafted the first treatment for what would much later
become the movie Frozen. She was named to the Connecticut
Women’s Hall of Fame in 1999.
“My favorite story she used to tell was when back in the 1920s
she was writing for the Courant and flying around the Hartford
area in her Fairchild plane, she would fly low by the family
house on Jordan Lane and yell to the family that she’d be home
for dinner soon,” Goodrich said. “It was an open cockpit plane,
so I guess that was possible!”
Goodrich, 41, a businessman and entrepreneur in Boulder,
Colorado, never knew his great-grandparents and hasn’t
visited their old estate, which was sold before he was born.
NEW OWNERS
The main house seen in early pictures no longer exists. It
burned to the ground in the 1930s, though the exact date is
unclear. A new iteration stands on the site and such features
as the small bell tower made in Bolivia that looks like it could
have been in the Hitchcock thriller, The Birds, were added.
The pool’s filtration system was modernized and the diving
board removed, though the four-level platform remains as a
decorative touch. >>
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