About Emma
Next Stop Gallipolis
In a couple of weeks our project will be heading to southern Ohio and Gallipolis. We are in search of the back story, the setting, for Emma Gatewood’s life. Gallipolis is a farming community on the banks of the Ohio River. Not far from the farm were Emma lived are the hills and “hollers” that…
Read MoreEmma’s Importance to the trail
March 11, 2011 Peter Huston Producer/Director Film Affects Put-in-Bay, Ohio 43456 Dear Peter, On behalf of the Appalachian Trail Museum, I would like to endorse your project of producing a documentary on Grandma Gatewood. A pioneer long-distance hiker, Grandma Gatewood captured the imagination of the hiking community and touched many lives around the…
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Emma Gatewood set the standard for women, hikers and people from Appalachia. This is a wonderful story of courage that emerges from a quiet, albeit culturally different time when women were not often so likely to venture forth, or take on such amazing feats. Emma’s conquest of the Appalachian Trail in 1955 is a testament…
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