The young whippersnapper is off visiting friends so Margaret, Jake, Abe and I are off to Ivy Green, home of Helen Keller in Tuscumbia, Alabama. To substitute for that rapscallion of a nephew, we brought our sweet granddaughter, Samineh, was us. What a breath of fresh air! LOL
It's about 1 1/2 hours from Huntsville so it's a nice day's outing for us. We stopped in Tuscumbia for a quick lunch at the Waffle House and then off to Helen Keller's which was once over 100+ acres but now just 10 acres that has been kept up by the Parks Historical Society.
We took a wonderful tour of the home in which Helen was raised. Helen was six or seven before her teacher, Mary Sullivan, came to live with them. She hoped to make a breakthrough with Helen who had becomd sick when she was about 1 1/2 years old. It was this illness that had made her deaf and blind. She had become very frustrated and unmanageable. We then went outside, visited the cottage where Mary took Helen to be away from her family, and then the water pump where Helen finally got the idea that things had a name when Mary pumped water over her hand and Mary tapped the word into the palm of her hand. Helen learned over 30 words that first day and went on in her life to graduate Cum Laude from University and to visit many Presidents. She wrote several books over her lifetime. See the pics.
As we were driving home, us women fell asleep in the backseat.
When we got home, Margaret made some homemade Summer Borsht that we put up for a later date - I can tell you that Abe and I will think wonderful thoughts as we eat it in the next few months. . . Nummers.
Love Aunty Janet
looks like fun...
ReplyDeleteHiya, Greg
ReplyDeleteWe're working on it. Thanks for hitchin'.