
Grandma Gatewood's Walk
The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
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Narrated by:
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Patrick Lawlor
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By:
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Ben Montgomery
About this listen
Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than $200. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, atop Maine's Mount Katahdin, she sang the first verse of "America, the Beautiful" and proclaimed, "I said I'll do it, and I've done it." Grandma Gatewood, as the reporters called her, became the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first person - man or woman - to walk it twice and three times. The public attention she brought to the little-known footpath was unprecedented. Her vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led to bolstered maintenance, and very likely saved the trail from extinction.
©2014 Ben Montgomery (P)2014 TantorCritic reviews
Regardless, a great book.
What an inspiration!
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Inspiring and heartwarming
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Boring
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An uplifted inspiring wholesome story
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BUT, that is ok as i enjoyed these glimpses into Americas social history: love the book because it bought an account of an amazing woman to my attention whom i would never have known about if this book had remained unwritten.
Wish i had her balls ... so to speak.
Intrepid traveller ...
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Inspiring. makes me want to do it !
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Amazing Grandma
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Disappointing
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