PART I: Betting on Bernie in Love and Life

This section supplements the story and photos published in Martha Marks’s

Betting on Bernie, A Memoir of a Marriage.

There are no story spoilers here.

Hover your cursor over any image to learn more about it.

The pics on this page are just teasers!

Click the links below to see more photos and read the stories behind them.

SCENES AND STORIES FROM:

Read an anecdote about Martha’s parents that she posted here on 6/5/24.

Bernie and Martha Marks on their wedding day

Washing Bernie's 1965 Ford Mustang, fall 1965

Truman and Martha Frances Alford (both on the left) experience a "goat jam" on a rural road in Norway, 1954

The Marks family about 1945-46: Minnie, Sid, Bernie (on left), and Murray

Martha Frances Alford decorated for Fasching (Carnival) in Heidelberg, Feb 1952

Margaret Alford's photo of Bernie Marks in Linden, Texas, 1966

Martha Frances Alford prepares to wade in the Mediterranean

Mollie Smith Alford with Truman Alford, her youngest child, in 1950

Murray Marks pins a carnation on Bernie's suit at Bernie and Martha's wedding.

Martha Frances Alford gets a shoeshine in Madrid in 1952

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