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Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery strawberry Construction SiteEmma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. 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 Harlem gangsters, she stood atop Maine's Mt. Katahdin. Driven