<p><span class="deck">A town forced to earn its living by its wits from the very beginning—most spectacularly, through the work of two young bicycle mechanics—and is now remaking itself into a Colonial Williamsburg of the industrial age.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">While lauded for their 1903 flight, the Wright brothers were not convinced of their airplane’s reliability to sustain long, controlled flights until October 1905.</span></p>
