Phil.Scovell@f810.n104.z1.fidonet.org (Phil Scovell) (07/19/90)
Index Number: 9273
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
Recently a local Denver station played a two hour movie of the life of
Helen Keller. Well, shoot, I've been to the school for the blind so
how could I not know about Helen Keller? The movie was almost as bad
as watching 2001, you know, Arther C. Clark's thing? I mean, Helen
couldn't talk throughout the whole movie. The movie, however, was
still pretty emotional and since I'm kind of emotional, I called up the
library for the blind and found they only have a single cassette book,
and a single cassette at that, on Helen Keller. I said, well, send it
to me then. I hate to admit this but I honestly shed a few tears
reading that little book. Helen was an unbelievable person. I wanted
to recommend you consider reading it sometime soon. Warning! Reading
those kinds of stories make you feel kind of guilty that you just aint
doing all you can and should but it'll be good for you; at least it
was for me.
Phil.
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Internet: Phil.Scovell@f810.n104.z1.fidonet.orgMarda.Anderson@f150.n321.z1.fidonet.org (Marda Anderson) (07/27/90)
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Helen Keller has written several books which used to be available from
regional libraries. Her autobiography "The Story of my Life" is
available both in Braille and oin recorded form, though I'm not sure if
it's on disks or cassettes. She has written another book called
"Midstream: My Later Life" which, as the title implies, is a continuation
of her autobiography. There is another of her books called "Teacher", I
believe, which is about Anne Sullivan Macy. I read these a long time
ago. I hope they're still available. If they're not, it would be a
shame. I think she has written others, but I can't remember titles.
marda
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