Breaking Barriers
Back in the early 1900s, Eleonora Sears ice-skated, shot rifles, rode horses, and raced yachts. She excelled in 19 sports, making her America’s most versatile female athlete. And—horrors—she wore pants.
Peggy Miller Franck is the author of Prides Crossing: The Unbridled Life and Impatient Times of Eleonora Sears. She is the daughter of Eleonora Sears’s financial advisor and racing-stable manager. Peggy graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and later attended the New York School of Interior Design. She developed an interior-design business that is in its fourth decade. She works with special-needs children and adults in the therapeutic riding program at the Thorncroft Equestrian Center in Malvern. She enjoys living next to Valley Forge National Park with its scenic trails for walking her dogs.