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 Peggy Miller Franck

 Prides Crossing
  The Unbridled Life and Impatient Times of ELEONORA SEARS

September 28, 2021   

Brady Carlson Podcast celebrates Eleonora Sears on, what would have been, her 140th birthday. https://www.bradycarlson.com/eleonora-sears-a-pioneer-in-basically-all-the-sports-cool-weird-awesome-622/

July  2012

 In the Huffington Post--"Eleonora Sears and 40 Years of Title IX"--by the author. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peggy-miller-franck/title-ix_b_1563581.html

 

June 23, 2012  

 The Daily Beast featured this article by the author, "The Mother of Title IX”.

 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/22/the-mother-of-title-ix-trailblazing-athlete-eleonora-sears.html

 

June 1912                                                                             

  On The Issues Magazine included Eleonora Sears in their spotlighting of inspiring women with this   article by the author. http://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/cafe2/article/212    

 

May 2012

 For The Advocate, Josh Hinkle interviewed the author for his article on Eleonora Sears,” The Woman Behind   Title IX”.

http://www.advocate.com/print-issue/current-issue/2012/05/17/woman-behind-title-ix  

February 23, 2012
 Author interviewed on bloomingOUT, Bloomington Community Radio, Inc.

 For audio file download: http://www.wfhb.org/news/bloomingout-february-23-2012


January 25, 2012
 Author interviewed by Ross Forman,
Windy City Times, for its commemoration of  the 40th anniversary   of 
Title IX.

 Online version of the interview: windycitymediagroup.com


June 17, 2010
 Author interviewed for Off the Shelf, a TV program hosted by Veronica Andrews.


 
June 16, 2010
 Author interviewed for The Literati Scene TV Show
with Smoki Bacon and Dick Concannon.   Click HERE   to view video.


May 14-22, 2010
 For the North Shore Design Show, benefiting the Wenham Museum, interior designer Patricia Finn of Finn-   Martens Design furnished an exciting space she called "A Game Room for Eleonora Sears", which   commemorated the backgammon game Eleo played to win her seaside estate in Prides Crossing.
 

October 28, 2009  -  Syracuse, New York
 The 126th National Horse Show opened at the Syracuse Invitational Sporthorse Tournament, where the   'Eleonora R. Sears'  Memorial Challenge Trophy, donated by Madame Marie V. Gendron, was awarded to the   overall winner in the hunter classes.  Seven classes were won by Francesa, an 8-year-old Dutch warmblood   mare, owned by Pony Lane Farm and ridden by Maggie Jayne.  


September 16, 2009 -- Main Line Media News - article: Malvern author tells Eleonora Sears' story

June 1-2, 2007  -  Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
 The annual US Tennis Association women's sectional grass court competiton for the Sears Cup, donated by   Eleonora Sears in 1927, was won by the New England team. Other particpants in the tournament were teams   from the Eastern, Mid-Atlantic, and Middle States.


August 25, 2007
 Bariloche, Argentina was the site of the world's first female snow polo tournament - the
Eleonora Sears   Challenge. The event was organized by Claudia Hodari of Argentina as a tribute to the first woman to play   competitive polo on a men's team.