Beryl Markham

["Spirit One Email" <laurel@spiritone.com>]

Rob,
    I'm from Wisconsin, land of the giant mosquitoes.  I really was amazed
that we only found mosquitoes in one place.   I'm not really complaining
about them.  By the way Beryl did not crash because of inexperience,
stupidity, or lack of preparation.  Her gas line froze up.  The propeller
wasn't even bent due to the slurpy bog which she almost died in trying to
wade out.  Luckily a fisherman happened by.  I get so sick of hearing about
Amelia Earhart.  Did she ever accomplish anything except to fly unprepared,
without instrument knowledge and disappear?
Beryl wrote books afterwards.  Hemingway said she was one of the best
writers he had come across.  She was a fine horsetrainer before and after
this part of her life.  Married 3 times had a son.  Also was the girlfriend
of a son of the King of England.  Really an unusual life.
Laurel
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Cohn <rob@eteast.com>
To: sinclair@mids.org <sinclair@mids.org>
Date: Friday, August 06, 1999 4:00 AM
Subject: Re: Another ignored NS event


>I had not heard of Beryl Markham, nor that she crashed in Cape
>Breton...I will forward your note on to see who we can irritate with
>it...
>
>Sorry about the bugs - they're a way of life in some parts of Cape
>Breton...one of the most beautiful places immortalized in song is the
>Mira River...a gentleman I know from elsewhere in the world who now
>lives on the river was once asked how he ended up there...his response:
>black flies don't show up in photographs...
>
>From the dates given in your CD I see the mosquitos didn't get Beryl...
>
>thanks for the interesting digression...
> rob
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