Pete Book Club is comprised of a well-rounded, well-read group of peopl This is the Goodreads home for the St. Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
A few quaint persons-boys chiefly-ride bicycles.” “They pretend that they are rushed, very busy, very energetic the fact is, they are lazy. But real walking … is as extinct as the dodo.” “They say they haven’t time to walk-and wait fifteen minutes for a bus to carry them an eighth of a mile,” wrote Edmund Lester Pearson in 1925. “That is, they shuffle along on their own pins from the door to the street car or taxi-cab…. “Of course, people still walk,” wrote a journalist in Saturday Night magazine in 1912. Charles Dickens captured the ecstasy of near-madness and insomnia in the essay “Night Walks” and once said, “The sum of the whole is this: Walk and be happy Walk and be healthy.” Robert Louis Stevenson wrote of “the great fellowship of the Open Road” and the “brief but priceless meetings which only trampers know.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche said, “Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.” More recently, writers who knew the benefits of striking out excoriated the apathetic public, over and over again, for its laziness. “William Wordsworth was said to have walked 180,000 miles in his lifetime. He lives in Tampa with his wife, Jennifer, and three children.more In 2010, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in local reporting and won the Dart Award and Casey Medal for a series called "For Their Own Good," about abuse at Florida's oldest reform school. He worked for the Courier in Russellville, Ark., the Standard-Times in San Angelo, Texas, the Times Herald-Record in New York's Hudson River Valley and the Tampa Tribune before joining the Tampa Bay Times, Florida's biggest and best newspaper, in 2006. Ben grew up in Oklahoma and wanted to be a farmer before he got into journalism at Arkansas Tech University, where he played defensive back for the football team, the Wonder Boys. He lives in Tampa with his wife, Jennifer, and three children.
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