Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for April 08, 2023

He wouldn’t have heard of her even as a baby. Is Sophie trying to have them sent to bedlam ?

Amelia Earhart was born July 24, 1897. 34 years later than the current 1863 storyline.

(Either way, it’s correct that the constable would have no idea who Amelia was.)

But while I’m at it, it appears that the constables in DC were replaced in 1861 with the District’s Metropolitan Police Force.

“The metropolitan police force initially consisted of a superintendent, 10 sergeants, 20 roundsmen, and 150 privates or patrolmen.”

Also like Amelia, this strip is going down in flames.

That’s one creepy-looking cop!!

That Amelia Earhart’s birth in 1897 was still years away at that point is not surprisingly lost on them. Even though this bunch has so far come off as above average among their peers, it seems to be that few of those peers have an accurate grasp of history.

Time travel does have its quirks!

Cop: Where are your parents? Girls: in 2023.

Sonny? I’m a girl!

The doll has one finger leaking over the bottom wall. Cute.

Coincidentally, the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum here in Amelia’s hometown of Atchison, Kansas, is opening on April 14! https://www.atchisonglobenow.com/news/local_news/grand-opening-of-the-amelia-earhart-hangar-museum-on-april-14/article_bdf5d984-d49d-11ed-b5fa-6f2daae4e8bf.html

I wonder, could his name be Wright the farther, or grand farther of Wilber and Orville?

What an odd thing to ask a child as the Balloon Ovservation Corps was part of the U.S. Army and manned by a few hand-picked aeronautical experts, of which there were few in the war. Plus her helmet would look nothing like what the aeronauts would have worn. And her tassles on her helmet fell off in the second panel. The Corps was disbanded by August 1, 1863 after the head of the Corps has quit and his successors were not as competent.

He reminds me of a vampire.

OOPS