Production Updates

January 25, 2011 To Whom it May Concern: WGTE has reviewed Peter Huston’s  proposal to produce an independent program on the subject of Emma Gatewood.  The proposed idea would offer a glimpse into the world of Grandma Gatewood, Ohio’s Legendary Hiker, and her courageous and optimistic spirit.  The show will explore how Gatewood was inspired…

I am in search of footage of Emma “Grandma” Gatewood. She became part of our American folklore for being the very first person, and a woman of 67 years of age, to solo “through hike” in one season the 2168 miles of the Appalachian Trail from Mt. Oglethorpe Georgia, to Mt Katahdin, Maine in 1955.…