Support for this edition comes from the West Lafayette Public Library Foundation, presenting the Music on the Porch concert series at the Caretaker’s Cottage. The final of three acoustic shows in the series will feature guitarist Michael Kelsey, 3-5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, at the Caretaker’s Cottage in Grand View Cemetery, 1496 N. Salisbury St. in West Lafayette. The concert is free. Bring a lawn chair. For more on the concerts and the West Lafayette Public Library Foundation, go to www.wlplf.org.
Some notes on a Thursday …
PURDUE-FINANCED EARHART SEARCH: ANSWERS IN 48 HOURS? A 17-member crew exploring the Pacific island of Nikumaroro in hopes of finding pieces of Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Electra 10-E, missing since her 1937 attempt to circumnavigate the globe, was kept away from field operations Thursday and on its ship a mile offshore due to foul weather and rough seas, Purdue reported.
The crew reported that it has 48 hours left on the Kiribati island to find out whether the Taraia Object – a form found on a series of satellite images – is, in fact, a piece of Earhart’s lost plane.
Crew members on the Purdue Research Foundation-funded expedition spent recent days hacking their way through underbrush to get to the site and setting up field operations. Wednesday included divers exploring the site and the use of a magnetometer and side-scan sonar to gather data on the remote island, roughly halfway between Australia and Hawaii. The final two days, before the expedition is scheduled to be over, will include the use of a hydroprobe and a water injection dredge to make contact with the object and remove sediment from it.