@smithsonian Sculptor and writer Lilian Swann Saarinen, was also an accomplished skier, competing as part of the US Women's Alpine Ski Team at the 1936 Winter  in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. 

Her diary from the event was transcribed by : https://t.co/b1rZNhMiml. https://t.co/8kQXqFcvaB