Dear Friends of Granny D,
Before too much time goes by, and before too many of our email addresses change, I wanted you to know that, in her last days, Doris “Granny D” Haddock completed a second memoir. This one is about her coming of age in the Great Depression. There are also chapters about some of her last adventures, including a her “Working Women Vote” tour in 2003 where she took over the jobs of young women, long enough for them to register to vote. The jobs included an alligator feeder, a mermaid in a water park, and more. Her zany run for Congress is also told. She also talks about the road ahead for political reform, and I think she gives definition to what the reform community’s next demands can be.
The book will be published this coming spring by University Press of New England, which is the publishing consortium of Dartmouth, the University of New Hampshire, the University of Vermont, Brandeis and Northeastern. The title is “Granny D’s American Century.” (The working title, just for fun, was “The Gangs of New Hampshire.”)
If you happen to know any famous author whose name most people would recognize and trust, UPNE would like to get a review copy to them for a book blurb. Let me know.
Also, if there is something you need in the way of support from other reformers, let me know and I’ll pass the word along to the wider group.
For example: One of our reformer friends who has traveled the world doing a great deal of good is Marion McNamara, now serving in the Peace Corps at age 62. She is in a small, poor village on the militarized Armenia-Azerbaijan border. She asks that, if any of you have decent but unused digital cameras, you can help her. She would like to give the cameras to the kids of the village so they can document their lives. She will be back in the States over the holidays, and will be at her son’s house, where she could pick up any cameras sent to him. His name and address: Liam McNamara, 6044 SE Boise, Portland, OR 97206. Let me know if you are able to help.
And in all other matters, keep it going, one foot in front of the other.
Yours,
Dennis Michael Burke (burkearizona [at] gmail [dot] com)
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