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Lecture - the crash of flight 242 - in New Hope

 

An Evening With History.

 Georgia's worst air disaster happened in New Hope April 4, 1977.  72 people were lost in the fiery crash that rainy afternoon.

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 Hugh Walters, will give a talk about the aftermath of this event in Paulding County at the monthly meeting of the Paulding County Historical Society on March 10, 2011

 Mr. Walters, a local historian, is working with a group of interested volunteers who are having a memorial made to recognize those involved in the event.

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 All are invited to the meeting at the Dallas Civic Center, located behind the Dallas Theater on Main Street, to hear what is planned in New Hope as a memorial to this tragedy.

 Paulding County Historical Society Meetings are held at 7:PM on the 2nd Thursday each month at the Dallas Civic Center.

There is no charge for this meeting and talk.

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