Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

We've been wanting to read this one for awhile. The time has come for Grandma Gatewood!

Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
Author: Ben Montgomery
288 pages
Ratings: 4.1 Goodreads

Summary: 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. The public attention she brought to the trail was unprecedented. Her vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led to bolstered maintenance, and very likely saved the trail from extinction.

We will meet at 7pm on Tuesday, October 28 at:

Harmon's
Upstairs cafe/meeting area
135 E 100 S
Salt Lake City

**Note, the entrance to the parking garage is a little hidden- it's on the north side of the building, behind the entrance on 100 S. Turn onto a little alley-looking street called Social Hall Ave and you will see the Harmon's parking lot and garage.

I will be there early- I have short brown hair and glasses, and will be carrying a copy of the book.