Feisty Females- Emma Gatewood
Sharon Hall, a friend of our “Trail Magic” script writer Kelly Boyer Sagert let us know about this great blog site that features her story about Emma Gatewood. Check out Sharon’s article about Emma Gatewood at http://historydepot.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/feisty-females-grandma-gatewood-part-i Enjoy!
Read MoreThe Smoky Mountain Hiking Blog
We were pleasantly surprised and pleased to see that a story about Emma Gatewood and a clip from our project were on the Smoky Mountain Blog here is an excerpt: Who was Grandma Gatewood? In 1955, after raising 11 children, Emma “Grandma” Gatewood became the first woman to solo thru-hike the Appalachian Trail – at…
Read MoreAT Half Gallon Challenge
This past June we witnessed one of the interesting rites of passage that thru-hikers partake in at the half way point on the Appalachian Trail. Sitting on the front porch of the little store at Pine Furnace State Park in Pennsylvania, the “Half Gallon Challenge” becomes an informal race among the thru-hikers to devour a…
Read MoreEmma comes to life again on camera!
A special thanks to Anne McEvoy who was able to bring her “Emma” again on our shoot at Historic Lyme Village this past week. DP Tom Whaley of TW Teleproductions provided the talent and gear to capture Emma telling her story once again. Anne’s on-camera persona of Emma is key to our story. We also…
Read MoreNearing the half way point
Our “Trail Magic” documentary on the life of Emma “Grandma” Gatewood has reached a rough cut stage. We are shooting the last re-enactment dialog scenes next week with our wonderful actress Anne McEvoy. If you are an Appalachian Trail hiker or interested in how Emma changed her life after 32 years of domestic abuse get…
Read MoreGreat Lakes Ladies-July 10th 7pm, The Chapel at Linwood Park
Come hear the stories of GREAT LAKES LADIES at The Chapel at Linwood Park on Liberty Ave. in Vermilion, Ohio. Meet some special ladies — Abigail Becker, who rescued more than four sailors off the treacherous Long Point Shoals of Lake Erie; Elizabeth Williams, who called herself “A Child Of The Sea”; and Harriet Colfax, who “manned”…
Read MoreGlory on the Mountain June 20 & 21
We are pleased to announce that Apollo’s Fire (Cleveland Baroque Orchestra) is offering Eden Valley members $5.00 discount to their new concert, “Glory On The Mountain, An Appalachian Journey” in conjunction with our Grandma Gatewood project. We hope you will enjoy this musical look at the Appalachian area where Emma lived and hiked. For tickets go to http://apollosfire.org/
Read MoreFall at Mt. Katahdin
As Emma Gatewood finished her walk she got to the Mt. Katahdin base camp the last week in September, 1955. The weather that time of the year is spectacular and the leaves extremely colorful. Two years ago cameraman Bruce Lundeen and myself hiked up the trail from the base camp and got some wonderful footage.…
Read MoreYou Can’t Play Baseball in a Skirt
There’s only one more week to get discounted tickets for YOU CAN’T PLAY BALL IN A SKIRT! with Anne McEvoy at the Cleveland Baseball Heritage Museum! This is a fundraiser for the Grandma Gatewood documentary we’ve been working on and Anne played Emma in TRAIL MAGIC last summer. Tickets are only $16 until June 1 then they…
Read MoreThanks to you
The Grandma Gatewood PBS Documentary, “Trail Magic”, is made possible in part by a grant from the Ohio Historical Society’s History Fund. The History Fund is supported exclusively by voluntary donations of Ohio’s income tax refunds and designated to the Ohio Historical Society.
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