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MontecitoMag.com 21 Pioneer Aviator Earle Ovington Bird Man And Wife By Mark Lewis • Art by Holli Harmon Earle Ovington was a pioneer aviator in 1911 when he struck up a shipboard romance with the Broadway actress Adelaide Alexander. They ended their days in Santa Barbara, where Earle built the city’s first officially designated airfield and began developing Samarkand as a residential district, while Adelaide and their daughter Audrey created Cold Spring Tavern as we know it today. © Artist Holli Harmon

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