GRANDMA GATEWOOD: OHIO'S LEGENDARY HIKER
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In 1955, when she was 67 years old (and had already raised 11 children), Emma Gatewood became the first woman to ever thru-hike the entire Appalachian Trail solo! Before she died in 1973 she had hiked the AT several times, completed hikes in Oregon, Vermont and Pennsylvania. She was a charter member of the Buckeye Trail Association which has The Grandma Gatewood Trail named after her.

Emma is the subject of our newest project. In November, 2011 we premiered a storytelling program about this amazing woman and now we continue working to complete the project by creating a video documentary about her. We are in the process of raising funds to do a video and a first-person character program about this remarkable Ohioan. We will be working the Peter Huston of FilmAffects on the video.

If you would like to support this project with a tax-deductible donation, you can send a check made payable to Eden Valley Enterprises; 1250 East River St., Elyria, Ohio 44035 (download a convenient PDF form) or pay online with PayPal by pressing the "Donate" button below. (As a not-for-profit organization under section 501(c)(3) or the Internal Revenue Code, all donations are tax-deductible. You will receive an acknowledgment for tax purposes.)

If your company would like to be a corporate sponsor, you can download this special form. For additional information or to discuss special corporate sponsorship benefits, contact us.

Additional information about the project:

Donor List and Kickstarter Campaign Information

See Video Clips from interviews with Emma's Family and keep up with our progress on our blog.

"With An Old Woman's Grace" a song about Emma by Mike Petee.

See a picture album from Lucy Seeds, Emma's daughter.

See a picture album from Gallipolis, Ohio where Emma lived.

Read an excerpt from our storytelling program about Emma.

Purchase our E-book about Emma by Bette Lou Higgins and Kelly Boyer Sagert

Read an article about our project in CBC Magazine

Related Information

To find out where and when our Grandma Gatewood storytelling program is playing, be sure to check our calendar page regularly.

We will be posting more information about this exciting new project as it becomes available. In the meantime, if you have any stories or memories of your own about Emma Gatewood that you would like to share as we research her life or if you would like to be added to our mailing list, please contact us.

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