Ben Montgomery is a former enterprise reporter for the Tampa Bay Times, founder of the narrative journalism website Gangrey.com, and author of Grandma Gatewood's Walk. In 2010, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in local reporting and won the Dart Award and Casey Medal for a series called 'For Their Own Good,' about abuse at Florida's oldest reform school. He lives in Tampa with his three children.
Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, sixty-seven-year-old great-grandmother had walke...[SEE MORE]