Grandma Gatewood Statue Project | Trail Days

May 19, 2023- May 21, 2023, was Appalachian Trail Days In Damascus, VA. You may have seen Paul Maxwell there talking about the Grandma Gatewood Statue project if you went. You can’t miss him with the banner and postcards he was handing out. Thanks to fundraiser team member Christina Sizemore for creating the banner and postcards to bring attention to this worthy project. There are other images we would have loved to put on the postcard and banner, but we didn’t have any that were high resolution and needed something fast. They turned out great. Image-Paul Maxwell- head of the fundraising committee, Anne Van Curen is an actress on the fundraising committee. Matthew Myers is a friend of Paul’s that first told him about Grandma Gatewood many years ago.

Many thanks to Ben Montgomery for providing some signed copies of his book “Grandma Gatewood’s Walk.” Olive Stirckland from Bristol, Tennessee, was one of the Lucy recipients. Olive is a fan of Grandma Gatewood. Paul said she knows more than most adults.

Meanwhile, Tammy, a friend of the artist and a member of the Houston Women’s Hiking group that Bridgette Mongeon- the sculptor, maintains, was hiking a bit of the AT trail at the same time as Trail Days. She took it upon herself to try and get some fliers placed in different areas and establishments along the trail areas. Please let us know if you would like the file for the postcards or flyers. We would appreciate you helping us get out the word. We have a lot of money to raise.

There are tentative talks about placing a second life-size bronze in the edition along the AT in Damascus, VA. More on that later.
Any help you can give the fundraising team to get the word out about the sculpture is greatly appreciated. To donate go to the Grandma Gatewood Go Fund Me.