The library in Jacksonville, Oregon, wasn’t much bigger than Robin Mayall’s living room.
Growing up in the southern Oregon town of 2,000, Mayall loved to do two things: read and swim. So it wasn’t surprising that, as she wandered the library at age 10, a photograph in one book caught her eye.
A young woman in the black-and-white picture confidently strode down a beach wearing a pair of funny-looking goggles and a swimsuit. Her name was Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle, and she was about to become the first woman to swim the English Channel…