Great 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.
Read MoreWe’re back…
Eden Valley Enterprises website is back up and Bette Lou is hoping you will come visit. If you love baseball, please join us Saturday, June 14, 2014; 1p.m.: Find out why YOU CAN’T PLAY BALL IN A SKIRT! Anne McEvoy is Alta Weiss in this first-person character presentation at the Baseball Heritage Museum. This is a special fundraiser…
Read MoreEden Valley Website Update
Technology is fickle from time to time. Unfortunately, the Eden Valley website is temporarily out of service. You can get Eden Valley Enterprises (EVE) schedule of events and general information at https://sites.google.com/site/edenvalleyenterprises/ until the technical difficulties are solved. Thank you for your patience. Thank you, Bette Lou Higgins
Read MoreJoin us in May
Grandma Gatewood: Ohio’s Legendary Hiker Hear the remarkable story of Emma Gatewood at the Rocky River Historical Society meeting on May 8 at 7:00 PM at the Rocky River Senior Center; 21012 Hilliard Boulevard; Rocky River, Ohio. Grandma Gatewood was the first woman to solo thru-hike the Appalachian Trail in 1955! Great Lakes Stories Tuesdays, May 13, 20 & 27, 2014; 2p.m.: come…
Read MoreAppalachian History features Bette Lou Higgins review of “Grandma Gatewood’s Walk” by Ben Montgomery
When I was in 11th grade at Garfield Heights Senior High School in Garfield Heights, OH, I had an English teacher – Mr. Toneff. We did quite a bit of writing in his class and Mr. Toneff had a mantra: “V.S.D.!” Vivid Specific Detail… for writing to be good, it had to have V.S.D.
Mr. Toneff would love Ben Montgomery. His new book, Grandma Gatewood’s Walk, has A LOT of V.S.D.
Read MoreBen Montgomery’s new book “Grandma Gatewood’s Walk”
We have followed many of the same trails as Ben as we work on completing the documentary on Emma Gatewood called “Trail Magic”. Emma’s walk not only made her a momentary celebrity, it also focused an emerging post war nation on successful aging, the growth of the AT and the amazing kindness of strangers that continues today.
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