The “Grandma Gatewood” E-book

Grandma Gatewood Book Now Available! GRANDMA GATEWOOD: OHIO’S LEGENDARY HIKER is now available in PDF format delivered right to your e-mail box or for your Kindle for only $5.99! Read about this fascinating woman’s hiking adventures on the Appalachian Trail and beyond. This e-book is one part of our Grandma Gatewood project which includes a…

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Grandma Gatewood “An Appalachian Tale” (a new trailer)

We just finished a new short promo for our Grandma Gatewood project. Please take a look, let us know what you think, pass it on to friends and anyone interested in Emma’s journey. As I mentioned in the previous blog entry, we are especially interested in partnering with organizations that would find Emma’s story helpful…

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Making Connections

Since the Kickstarter success (thanks again to all who helped) we have been looking at other key funding opportunities to allow us to produce the Emma Gatewood documentary. We have applied for funds from the Ohio Humanities Council, The Fledgling Fund and now we are looking at “Good Pitch”.  “Good Pitch” is run by the…

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KickStarter Thank You!

Today we completed our Kick Starter Campaign for $3500. We want to thank everyone that contributed or shared our project idea about Emma. We have a pending proposal in with the Ohio Humanities Council to provide matching funds for the documentary. We are hopeful they to will support our quest to tell this story. Stay…

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Give the gift of legacy for Emma’s story

Today’s media is overwhelmed by “trending” stories,  so often they go by so fast that stories and accomplishments from the near past like Emma’s fall through the cracks. But her story resonates with me and also with so many when we get a chance to talk about her. She certainly fulfills the bill as trend…

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Kickstarter Fundraiser

Hi, Over the past year Bette Lou Higgins of EVE and I have been researching the story of Emma “Grandma” Gatewood, the legendary Appalachian Trail hiker from Ohio. Emma raised 11 children, survived years of domestic abuse, then became the first woman to through hike the Appalachian Trail in 1955 at the age of 67.…

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Bette Lou Higgins presents “Grandma Gatewood” live

Tomorrow marks the debut of the just completed narrative script c0-written by Bette Lou Higgins and Kelly Boyer Sagert as a one person live presentation. This third person script and show is based on the research and interviews we conducted with Lucy Seeds (Emma Gatewoods youngest daughter) and Marjorie Wood (Emma’s  grand daughter). The event…

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