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01822aam a2200241 4500 001 3D5674F6B50611EEB233F11920ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240117010048 020 $a 9798200025671 040 $d SILO 100 $a Montgomery, Ben/ Lawlor, Patrick 245 $a Grandma Gatewood's Walk: $h Audio CD $b The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail $c MP3-CD 250 $a Unabridged 264 1 $a Ashland, OR $b Blackstone Pub $c 2021 300 $a 8 hours (1 CD) 520 $a 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. 650 $a Nonfiction $x Audiobook $y BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General $z Biography/Autobiography 600 $a NATURE / General $x General Northeast US Travel Guides $y General Southern US Travel Guides $z New England US Travel Books 610 $a Spoken Word MP3-CD 008 s2021 941 $a 1 952 $l EYPC755 $d 20240117011632.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3D5674F6B50611EEB233F11920ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search