April 27 is Grandma Gatewood Day in Ohio.The day celebrates Emma Gatewood, otherwise known as Grandma Gatewood, who was the oldest woman and first person to hike the Appalachian Trail three times, ...
Emma Gatewood stands on the Oregon Trail, with her pack and an umbrella in tow. She hiked 2,000 miles of the trail in 1959, years after she thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail. When Emma Gatewood was 67 ...
In May 1955, when 67-year-old great-grandmother Emma Gatewood told her children that she was “going for a hike in the woods,” she left out a few important details. Like the fact that she was heading ...
The Public Theatre will present the New England premiere of Grandma Gatewood Took a Walk, the true and inspiring story about the first woman to solo-thru hike the Appalachian Trail. In 1955 at the age ...