Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (964 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00QL17VEA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 461 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Walking the Appalachian Trail with Grandma Gatewood Fun and inspiring reading. If you like travel books - this will amuse you as well as highlight the courage, determination and wonderful spirit shown by a woman who survived a challenging life and horrible abusive husband but she remained positive and strong. At an age that most people have given up do. "Five Stars" according to Linda L. Pottberg. Loved the book. Well written, engaging story of an incredible woman.
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. Her vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led to bolstered maintenance, and very likely saved the trail from extinction.. The public attention she brought to the little-known footpath was unprecedented. 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