Museum exhibits pictures drawn by Delta passengers-they were given crayons to ease nerves after 9/11

[Kadie]

Museum exhibits pictures drawn by Delta passengers

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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – A museum is showing artwork collected by a Delta flight attendant who started handing out crayons to passengers after the Sept. 11th attacks.

The Palm Springs Air Museum is showing "Plane Art — Connecting People" through Jan. 25. Several dozen pictures are hanging at the museum, and many others are available for visitors to leaf through in folders.

The pictures were collected by Delta flight attendant Jewel Van Valin. She got the idea a few months after 9/11, when the airline began substituting paper for linens as tray table covers.

She said one passenger who noticed the change "threw his head back and rolled his eyes, and I could tell he was thinking, 'What's next?' That look clinched it for me." Van Valin had a box of crayons in her flight bag and started putting a crayon on each tray.

"The passengers started laughing and drawing," she recalled. "It was a way to reconnect after 9/11."

She later contacted Crayola, and the company now supplies her with Rainbow Twistables, which are crayons that have four colors in one tube.

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This photo supplied by Delta flight attendant Jewel Van Valin shows a drawing that a passenger did of her. Van Valin has been giving crayons to passengers since shortly after the Sept. 11th attacks, asking them to draw pictures, and the Palm Springs Air Museum is hosting an exhibit of the art.
(AP Photo/Jewel Van valin)

[tammywammy]

1. That's pretty neat. recommended n/t

[aquart]

2. Lady has excellent instincts.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. cool idea