Alchemy
The cover of Colleen’s debut poetry collection available at Finishing Line Press.
A statue of Amelia Earhart at Purdue University, where she was a Career Counselor from 1935 to 1937. The sculpture is a duplicate of one made by artist Ernest Shelton in 1969.
Researching the George Palmer Putnam Collection at Purdue University Archives and Special Collections.
The Alchemy of Planes:
Amelia Earhart’s
Life in Verse
Colleen Nehmer’s debut poetry collection, The Alchemy of Planes: Amelia Earhart’s Life in Verse, is available at Finishing Line Press. It features 37 poems and an introduction that sets the historical context and provides little-known facts about Amelia’s life.
Born at home into a man’s world, Amelia bucks the role set before her and all women in 1897. With grit and gumption she turns her dreams into an extraordinary career and lifestyle, proving that there is no ordinary.
Anyone who’s ever aspired to make more of their lives will find inspiration in the pages of Alchemy, but it is an especially powerful message for women. Colleen says, “My interest in Amelia stems mainly from a desire to peek behind the legend, to see her as I am - a woman with both detriments and dreams.” The book is an excellent research tool for students middle-school aged and older. It is thoroughly researched and historically accurate. History buffs will find a kindred spirit between its pages.
Colleen traveled to Purdue University to walk the campus where Amelia was a Career Counselor for young women in the mid-1930s. While there, Colleen also conducted research using the resources of the George Palmer Putnam Collection at Purdue University Archives and Special Collections.
