Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:05:15 -0500 From: "Silver, Mordecai" <MSilver@iso.com> To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Subject: Re: [CR]Beryl Burton Message-ID: <773FCCCDD769824588198305178278910B9AE444@isomailp3.iso.com> Content-Type: text/plain;charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: list Message: 12
Didn't Beryl Burton work full-time in a market garden? Can someone confirm this?
Of course, she also did all the housework and raised her daughter Denise, who became an accomplished cyclist in her own right.
Mordecai Silver NYC ------------------------------ It wasn't a "market garden" - she worked on Nim Carline's farm doing HARD work. I believe Carline's farm grew rhubarb, among other things.
Just truly unbelievable that she could work as hard as she did AND raise a family AND compete at such a high level for so long. Makes today's overpaid and pampered riders (male and female) look rather foolish and unexceptional, to say the least.
One last note - don't overlook all the support that Beryl's husband Charlie must have provided for all those years. He rarely gets mentioned, yet he must have done an awful lot more than the typical husband of his era in regards to family and household responsibilities.
Michael Fabian
San Francisco