![]() ![]() Not that he would have had a chance even if his father had signed his application. His birthday was in September and the expedition was leaving at the end of August. His father said, “Stop with this nonsense! When you’ve graduated, you’re going to go into the upholstery business, like me.” But Billy was talented at art and wanted to go to Cooper Union art school to study textile design. Over 60,000 people volunteered, including Vanderbilts and Rockefellers.īilly was obsessed with the idea that maybe he could be taken on. ![]() When it was announced Byrd was going to be leading the first American expedition to Antarctica, there was a flood of excitement. High school student Billy Gawronski kept a scrapbook, like many people did. Richard Byrd was a household name for many Americans. The hero of your book is described by a shipmate as a “blue-eyed, wise-cracking, flapper-chasing buttinsky sort of fellow.” Introduce us to Billy Gawronski and tell us how he came to be a stowaway on a ship bound for the Antarctic. ![]()
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