Nonfiction Book Club

This month, we will discuss Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail by Ben Montgomery. 

From the book flap: 

Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than $200. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maine’s Mount Katahdin. There she sang the first verse of America, the Beautiful and proclaimed: I said I’ll do it, and I’ve done it. 

Copies of this book are available at the library. 

Our discussion will be on Zoom.  Please register here to receive the meeting details: