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Title details for Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery - Available

Grandma Gatewood's Walk

The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

by Ben Montgomery
Patrick Lawlor
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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 two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, sixty-seven-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.

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  • Release date

    December 16, 2014

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781494527938
      • File size: 227670 KB
      • Duration: 07:54:18

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 23, 2015
      Montgomery introduces listeners to Emma Gatewood, a woman who walked the length of the Appalachian Trail at age 67 in 1955 and twice more in the decade that followed. By her amazing feats, she secured attention and interest in a decaying national treasure and helped preserve it. Through research, interviews, and journals accounts, Montgomery pieces together Gatewood’s physical journey, interspersing it with her life story and the challenges that lead her down the Appalachian trail. Reader Lawlor has a warm and inviting voice that is soft but deep. It invites the listener to follow along in Gatewood’s journey. He provides a good cadence, combined with a strong emphasis and warm delivery. He fleshes out Montgomery’s prose with a bit more personality and enthusiasm than the text has on its own, which makes the production more enticing. His character voices are not impressive, but that hardly detracts from the listening experience since the story is focused entirely on Gatewood. A Chicago Review hardcover.

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