Granny D: You're Never Too Old to Raise a Little Hell

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She attended Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, for three years before marrying James Haddock. These include Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year (Villard, 2001), Granny D: You're Never Too Old to Raise a Little Hell (Villard, 2003), and Granny D's American Century (University Press of New England, 2012). In 2004, she ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic challenger to incumbent Republican Judd Gregg in the U.

Our entire team welcome the opportunity to earn your trust and deliver you wonderful items that you will enjoy and remember.Granny D continued to be active in politics to the end of her life, and celebrated her 98th, 99th and 100th birthdays by lobbying for campaign finance reform at the New Hampshire State House. She's not shy in what she says, I'm guessing when you get to be that age it's probably part of the loss of filter and time.

Her charm is reflected near the end of the book where she says, " Well, I am finished with this book, but I am not finished with my life or with my passion for campaign finance reform. Haddock celebrated her 100th birthday on January 24, 2010, [3] and died six weeks later on March 9, 2010, at her son's home in Dublin, New Hampshire, following a bout with respiratory illness. Although her entire life was dedicated to service, Granny D waited until her ninetieth year to enter the national spotlight. She worked during the Great Depression and was employed for twenty years as an executive secretary in the offices of the BeeBee Shoe factory in Manchester, New Hampshire.Haddock achieved national fame when, between the ages of 88 and 90, starting on January 1, 1999, and culminating on February 29, 2000, she walked over 3,200 miles (5,100 km) across the continental United States to advocate for campaign finance reform. Doris " Granny D" Haddock (born Ethel Doris Rollins; January 24, 1910 – March 9, 2010) was an American political activist from New Hampshire. She would temporarily miss the immediate affection of her family, but the attraction of being with her Heavenly Father was the greatest affection of her heart.