Pearl Bradshaw

<p>Stephen Whiteside interviewed Pearl Bradshaw in 1987 as part of his research for <em>Snow Fire and Gold</em> - the story of Bill Spargo and Evelyn Piper's life in the Australian mountains.</p><p>With her husband Jim (who had died in 1981) Pearl had managed the Hotham Heights Chalet at Mt Hotham form 1937 - 45 a total of nine consecutive winters.</p><p>This period included the 1939 bushfire which burned almost two million hectares of the state of Victoria and cost 71 lives and the Second World War.</p><p>Reflecting on the interview afterwards Stephen realised that Pearl's own life had been fascinating and returned to interview her a second time later in the year.</p><p>This is Pearl's story.</p>