Bristow Celebrity
By:
Pat Racette
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“Bristow was quite a town in its day,” remembers Bristow native Lee Folkerts.
His father, Harold, and uncle, Clayton, both were born and bred there on a farm just east of town.
Clayton etched his name into the history books in 1926 by creating the Monocoupe – a plane with one set of wings, and like the coupe (a popular automobile), it carried two passengers side-by-side.
See full story in this week's Tribune-Journal and Clarksville Star (Nov. 21).
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