Doris "Granny
D" Haddock is a champion of grass roots political
campaign reform, and a wonderful speaker. The Utne Reader
magazine published my photo of Doris. She has written a very
nice book, which I recommend, "Walking Across America
in my Ninetieth Year" I gave my copy to my mother.
Editor's
Note: Doris is an exceptional speaker. However, this particular
speech is extensively edited because the event hosts refused
to provide her an amplifier, though she was at the time ninety
six and emphysemic. Apparently it would offend their antiquarian-style
aesthetics. To fill the room, Doris had to shorten her sentences,
ruining her perfect cadence. To restore the speech required thousands
of tweaks. I believe you'll be pleased with this recording. And
I hope that she will be, too! (No, it wasn't at the Concord Antiquarian
Society, they have some common sense!) -Freeman Z |

Granny D reading in Concord, 2001 (photo: Freeman
Z) |