Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life

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Charles speaks at a rally for the America First Committee, a broad-spectrum political-pressure organization opposing aid to the Allies in World War II. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)
     

     
Summer 1943. Anne and her four children, Jon, Land, Scott, and Anne. While Charles worked as a technical consultant to the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, the Lindberghs rented a home in the affluent suburban enclave of Bloomfield Hills. For the first time, Anne becomes a part of a community of artists. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
     

     
Charles arriving home from the South Pacific, September 1944. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)
     

     
Anne and her youngest daughter, Reeve, age three, summer 1948, North Haven, Maine. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
     

     
Grandma Bee, Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, with her children and grandchildren on North Haven, summer 1948, at their annual reunion. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
     

     
The once-spartan four-room cottage on Captiva Island off the west coast of Florida, which Anne rented in January of 1950. Strolling along the shell-laden beaches of the remote island, Anne conceived her book
Gift from the Sea.
(Photographed by Susan Hertog in 1986)
     

     
Dr. Dana Atchley, internist and pioneer in psychosomatic medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, on the beach at Treasure Island in the Bahamas, winter 1950. The Atchleys and the Lindberghs, neighbors in Englewood, traveled here together. Later, Anne and Dana would fall in love. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
     

     
Anne’s mother, Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, circa 1940. She had become an eminent champion of women’s education, a philanthropist, and a political activist, calling for American intervention in World War II. (New York Times Pictures)
     

     
Charles is sworn in as a Brigadier General in the Air Force Reserves, regaining the commission he gave up after a dispute with President Roosevelt before World War II, April 1954. (U.S. Air Force Photo)
     

     
The Lindberghs’ home in Maui, built in 1967 on five acres of land purchased from their friend Sam Pryor, whom Charles met in his early days of flying for Pan Am. While Charles loved the beauty of the land, water, and sky, Anne was often left alone, feeling isolated from her friends and family and hating the constant ocean’s roar. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
     

     
Anne and Charles, September 1969, in Darien, Connecticut, recently returned from a trip to Africa. (Richard W. Brown)
     

     
In 1971, Alden Whitman and Charles Lindbergh toured the Philippines. Whitman, a seasoned journalist and the editor of the obituary page of
The New York Times
, was the first reporter in thirty years with whom Charles would speak. Whitman hoped to document Charles’s environmental vision and projects. (Alden Whitman Papers, New York Public Library)
     

     
Charles visiting his son Land on his cattle ranch in western Montana, April 1971. (Alden Whitman Papers, New York Public Library)
     

     
Charles in the kitchen of his boyhood home in Little Falls, Minnesota, on the shore of the Mississippi River, in 1971. His home is now a museum and a state park. (Alden Whitman Papers, New York Public Library)
     

     
Anne and her granddaughter Elizabeth Lindbergh Brown, Barnet, Vermont, Christmas, 1978. (Richard Brown)
     

     
Three generations of Lindbergh women. Anne, her daughter Reeve, and her granddaughter Elizabeth at the dedication of the Lindbergh Terminal in Minneapolis, 1985. (Photo by Robert E. Paulson, used by permission of the Anne and Charles Lindbergh Foundation)
     

     
Anne, overcome with emotion, on the capitol grounds of St. Paul, Minnesota, in May 1985, at the dedication of a statue of Charles by sculptor Paul

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