*Discussion* What "IS" Maryellen's Story?

We still don't know exactly what Maryellen's story will be about. A lot of you said the Space race. The surprise launch of Sputnik 1 happened in 1957.

Her story begins in 1954 as is dated on the cover of her 224-page book. There was a rumor by an insider, who said the next BF character (2015) would be disabled. By the book titles and cover it "doesn't appear" that the 1954 polio vaccinations are a part of her story.

In 1954 the cost of a new house was $10,250.00. The average income $3,155.64/year. The cost of a new car $1,700.00.  Gasoline was 22 cents/gallon. 

Interesting info:

  Edwards AFB in CA was upgraded to a NACA High-Speed Flight Station.

These employees and this equipment supported the flight of the NACA D-558-II Skyrocket at the High-Speed Flight Station at South Base, Edwards Air Force Base, Jan. 17, 1954.

• February 28: Pan American World Airways signed its own sub-contract with RCA for the technical functions of operating and maintaining the range instrumentation systems. This included missile flight data processing, tracking instrumentation and communication links between the launch sites and downrange tracking stations.
• April 29: First launching of a three-stage rocket vehicle consisting of two Nike boosters in tandem and a Deacon rocket as a third stage, and also a first launching of a rocket booster system consisting of three "peelaway" Deacons as the first stage wrapped around a fourth Deacon as a second stage, and a HPAG rocket as a third stage, by NACA Langley's PARD at Wallops Island. 
•  June 2: With test pilot J. F. Coleman at the controls, the Convair XFY-1, a vertical takeoff aircraft, made the first free vertical takeoff and landing at Moffett Naval Air Station, Mountain View, Calif. 
• June 3: Cape Canaveral supported the first attempted recovery of a winged missile that flew a programmed pattern and then returned to the Cape for refurbishing and reuse. A Snark missile was successfully guided for landing on the Cape Canaveral Skid Strip, but the missile's skids failed and the vehicle crashed and exploded upon contact.
•  July 25: NRL transmitted the first voice earth-to-earth meassages using the moon as a reflector of radio signals. This was later developed into the Communications Moon Relay (CMR) system, which was successfully used in November 1959 when solar disturbances in the ionosphere disrupted conventional high-frequency circuits between Washington and Hawaii. 
• October: the council adopted a resolution calling for artificial satellites to be launched during the IGY to map the Earth's surface.

Source: NASA 

On the night and early hours of February 20-21, 1954, while on a ‘vacation’ to Palm Springs, California, President Dwight Eisenhower went missing and allegedly was taken to Edwards Air force base for a secret meeting. When he showed up the next morning at a church service in Los Angeles, reporters were told that he had to have emergency dental treatment the previous evening and had visited a local dentist. The dentist later appeared at a function that evening and presented as the ‘dentist’ who had treated Eisenhower. The missing night and morning has subsequently fueled rumors that Eisenhower was using the alleged dentist visit as a cover story for an extraordinary event. The event is possibly the most significant that any American President could have conducted: an alleged ‘First Contact’ meeting with extraterrestrials at Edwards Air Force base (previously Muroc Airfield), and the beginning of a series of meetings with different extraterrestrial races that led to a ‘treaty’ that was eventually signed. - Dr. Micharl Salla

I would like to open up the "discussion" for reader conversation about Maryellen's possible story, what you would like to see within her collection and the era of the 50s in general.