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TrudyFest 2026 · Highlands, New Jersey · Saturday 15 August

Trudy's Story —
A Centennial Gift.

Highlands celebrates Trudy Ederle this Saturday — one hundred years after she swam the English Channel. To mark the centennial, the Trudy Ederle Foundation is giving her story to the next generation: the English Kindle eBook of her biography, free for one day.

TrudyFest is a family festival in Highlands, New Jersey, and members of Trudy Ederle's family will join the celebration.

Take her story home on 15 August. Then pass it on.

Transparency. TRUDY was written by Tobias Kolesnyk, who also serves as Director of Strategic Communication at the Trudy Ederle Foundation.

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The swim6 August 1926
Time in the water14 h 34 min
Her age20
Cap Gris-Nez →Kingsdown, Kent

Why Highlands

Her first paid crossing ended in this bay.

In 1925, the year before the Channel, Trudy's first professional swim went from Lower Manhattan to Sandy Hook — about seven hours. Documented · Olympedia

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Los Angeles · PTSat 15 Aug, 00:00Sat 15 Aug, 23:59
New York · Highlands · ETSat 15 Aug, 03:00Sun 16 Aug, 02:59
London · BSTSat 15 Aug, 08:00Sun 16 Aug, 07:59
Berlin · Vaduz · CESTSat 15 Aug, 09:00Sun 16 Aug, 08:59

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The story

Kindle eBook · English edition

TRUDY: Gertrude Ederle — What the Applause Left Behind

by Tobias Kolesnyk, Director of Strategic Communication at the Trudy Ederle Foundation

TEF is presenting the one-day free English Kindle promotion as part of its centennial communications.

The world roared her name. Then it let her go quiet. This is the story the films leave out: what happens after the applause.

It began two years ago. What followed was close and continuing contact with the last people who knew her, and access to the family's private collection — photographs, album pages and letters, most of them never published. That contact has not stopped since.

Hollywood, vaudeville, a devastating fall, and decades spent teaching hard of hearing children to swim, asking nothing in return. Take her story home. Then pass it on.

Cover — TRUDY: Gertrude Ederle — What the Applause Left Behind TRUDY
Gertrude Ederle
What the Applause
Left Behind

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