Granny D, Doris Haddock: On the Road Again!

Jimmy Carter on Doris’s book, Granny D: Walking Across America in My 90th Year

Granny D is looking for a few good women and men in West Virginia communities. You might remember that, two years ago, this elder activist walked (and skied) 3,200 miles, from Pasadena, Calif, to Washington, DC, to raise public awareness for the need for campaign finance reform. Her remarkable journey continues. Maybe you are interested in helping with her new voters’ registration project – "Our Community Votes."

She’s especially focusing on registering and urging working women to vote. Near the end of a speech announcing her new project, Granny D said, "If this is my last tour, then my last wish is that America’s women, who worked so hard amid great violence for the right to vote, take that now as a sacred duty in 2004."

During her recent time in West Virginia, she spoke with passion to people at events in Morgantown, Buckhannon, Charleston and Huntington regarding the importance of registering and voting in the 2004 election. Tireless in her efforts, Doris set up voter registration tables, spoke to classrooms and at other special events at WV colleges and universities. She surprised and delighted the college crowd at Marshall University with her "Vote Dammit" rap during open mic night at the Calamity Café in Huntington!

OVEC especially thanks Elinore and Nancy Taylor and Winnie Fox for their gracious hospitality to Doris and her traveling companions.

Granny D will spend the next 14 months between now and the 2004 election driving throughout the country doing her part to get out the vote. Check out her website: www.grannyd.com for her traveling route and learn ways that you can help. Go, Granny, go!

Dennis Burke "accompanies" Rappin' Granny D at open mic
night at Calamity Cafe in Huntington.   Photo by Janet Fout