Mayor Kahn read a proclamation at Keene State College's Mason Library in honor of Doris "Granny D" Haddock's annual birthday celebration on January 24, 2025, urging all citizens to let her legacy serve as an enduring example of the power of individual action and the importance of civic engagement. Doris Haddock, a beloved resident of Dublin, NH, after experiencing a successful career at D. D. Bean in Jaffrey, raising two children and caring for her husband afflicted with Alzheimer’s, sought a reason to live through political activism, by transforming campaign finance and returning government to the people. At the age of 89, Doris Haddock, affectionately known as "Granny D," embarked on a remarkable 14-month, 3,200-mile cross-country walk. Beginning in Pasadena, California, and culminating in Washington D.C., she traveled the nation, delivering speeches and garnering support for campaign finance reform. This journey brought the issue to the forefront of national discourse and ultimately contributed to the passage of the historic Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, also known as the McCain-Feingold Act. At the age of 94, Granny D ran for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire against incumbent Judd Gregg, earning 34% of the vote with her grassroots effort. Whereupon having lost the election Doris said “I may have lost the election but not my reason to live…that I will spend my days planting seeds before they plant me.”. At the age of 99, she founded the organization "Open Democracy", dedicated to promoting fair elections and an informed citizenry and also providing a living memory of Granny D’s spirit that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. Rather than locating Doris’ memorabilia in the Smithsonian Institute, then KSC President Helen Giles Gee and Librarian Irene Herald made a compelling case to locate the Granny D archives in New Hampshire at Keene State College at the foothills of the Monadnock Region, where Doris’ legacy remains in perpetuity.