Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year

"On February 29, 2000, ninety-year-old Doris "Granny D" Haddock completed a fourteen-month walk from Los Angeles to the steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. - a feat undertaken in order to draw attention to the need for national campaign finance reform. She walked through 105-degree deserts and cross-country-skied through blinding blizzards, despite arthritis and emphysema.

In her 3,200-mile trek through the heart of America, she met thousands of people who felt disconnected from their own government and who added their voices to hers. Her remarkable speeches - rich with wisdom, love, and insight - transformed individuals and communities and jump-started a full-blown movement. She became a national heroine.".

"On her journey, Doris kept a diary - tracking the progress of her walk and recalling events in her life, the people she met along the way, and the insights they had given her. Granny D celebrates an exuberant life of love, activism, and adventure - from performing one-woman feminist plays in the thirties, to stopping nuclear testing near an Eskimo fishing village in 1960, to her current crusade.

Threaded throughout is the spirit of her beloved hometown of Dublin, New Hampshire - in the region that was Thornton Wilder's inspiration for Grover's Corners in Our Town - a quintessentially American center of New England "can-do" pluck."--BOOK JACKET.