Author Alice Eakes Interviewed by Leona Godin
I first encountered Alice Eakes in her Huff Post opinion piece: “Yes, Blind People Read Books. We Write Them, Too.” I immediately knew I wanted to meet her. But I’m shy, so I quoted her ...
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9 Braille and His Invention (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)
In the previous chapter, “Performing Enlightenment,” Godin examined the origins—historical and philosophical—of the first school for the blind. We continue the tale of the early systematic education of the blind that began in Paris and ...
Helen Keller in Vaudeville, a Short Reading from ‘There Plant Eyes’
Helen Keller was born on this day-, June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia Alabama, so I thought I’d celebrate her birthday with a brief passage and reading from “Helen Keller in Vaudeville and in Love,” which ...