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Granny D (Doris Haddock) has become an american legend by walking across the nation at age 90 for campaign finance reform. I was living in West Virginia as she ambulated through the mountain state.

Late in 2000, I began to document political action through this website. It was on my trip to Washington D.C where I first met Doris. The trip was a near failure. My 0ld VW had died miles from the Bush Coronation, and I just made it in time to shoot pics of the Detroit ACLU picketing the Supreme Court Building. The weather was crappy, I was dead tired. My lenses were rain streaked, my strobes failed from moisture. I turned around and there she stood in full regalia, with her son at her side. I also photographed Doris at a rally in nearby Concord Massachusetts, where this photo for Utne originated.

"The greatest danger before you is this:
You live in an age when people would package
and standardize your life for you
-steal it from you and sell it back to you at a price.
That price is very high."

-Granny D.

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