In February 2000 ninety-year-old Doris “Granny D” Haddock became a national heroine when she completed her 3 200-mile fourteen-month walk from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. to bring attention to the issue of campaign finance reform. Granny D recalls and celebrates an exuberant life of love ac-tivism and adventure—from one-woman feminist plays in the thirties to stopping nuclear testing near an Eskimo fishing village in 1963 to her current crusade. Threaded throughout is the spirit of her beloved hometown in New Hampshire—Thornton Wilder’s inspiration for Grover’s Corners in Our Town—a quintessentially American center of New England pluck Yankee ingenuity and can-do attitude. Told in Doris’s vivid and unforgettable voice Granny D will move and delight readers with its clarion message that one person can indeed make a difference.
