PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND.
OMG. Everywhere I turned, there were photos and sculptures and tributes and exhibits related to Dr. Howe, Laura Bridgman, Michael Anagnos, Annie Sullivan, and Helen Keller. I should have taken more pictures, but I was mostly wandering around feeling stupidly joyful at "meeting" so many of my imaginary friends.
In the Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, this was
waiting for me:
Thirty-six binders full of notes and correspondence belonging to Nella Braddy Henney, author of the very first biography of Anne Sullivan. There were dozens of pages of scribbled jottings in Annie's own handwriting. As you might imagine, I got a little verklempt. I also got intimately acquainted with the photocopy machine:
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*I've neglected to mention Stop/Adventure #2, which was the ALA midwinter conference Boston. More on that later. Maybe. (I didn't take nearly enough pictures.)
