by Linda Burdette, Feature Article Editor

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Darrell Morgan Kellam owned a grocery store in Weirwood, Virginia which
specialized in produce and blue coal. But sometime after his 40th birthday in 1926 he had a life-changing
experience. Barnstormers were making their rounds in those days and inevitably one came to his town. The
barnstormer took people on flights around the area and Kellam was one of them. He was hooked. It ended
with the barnstormer teaching Kellam to fly.

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