Her Ruby Shoe Moment Helen Purviance dodged cold raindrops as she trudged through the mud to the army commissary on October 19, 1917. Her friend Margaret Sheldon was waiting for her back at the Salvation Army canteen hut where they both worked. Helen and Margaret had arrived at an army camp in Eastern France about 6 weeks earlier as part … Read More
Gertrude Ederle
Imagine swimming so far and for so long that when you finally get out of the water, you have to show officials your passport. And in route, your only company are boats, jellyfish, and the occasional shark! Travel through time to 1926 and across the ocean to Kingsdown Beach, England and meet 19 year old Gertrude Ederle…