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Helen Keller: Anne Sullivan
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Standing at the totally blind and deaf Helen Keller's side was Anne Sullivan. Miss Sullivan was steadily pumping cool water into one of the girl's hands while repeatedly tapping out an alphabet code of five letters in the other - first slowly, then rapidly. The scene was repeated. again and again as the young Helen painstakingly struggled to break her world of silence.
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Today Ivy Green, the Helen Keller home and birthplace, is a museum to the brave young girl who grew up to inspire so many. The simple white clapboard home was built in 1820 by Helen’s grandparents, David and Mary Keller, and originally sat on a 640 acre tract of land. Untouched by the ravages of the Civil War, today the home is maintained to the smallest detail in its original state, and though the grounds have shrunk considerably, several outbuildings still remain, including a cooking shack, the separate small cottage where Anne Sullivan took young Helen to begin working with her, and the famous well pump where child and teacher finally managed to make a connection.
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Helen Keller died on June 1, 1968, at Arcan Ridge, a few weeks short of her 88th birthday. Her ashes were placed next to her beloved companions, Anne Sullivan Macy and Polly Thomson, in the St. Joseph's Chapel of Washington Cathedral. On that occasion a public memorial service was held in the Cathedral. It was attended by her family and friends, government officials, prominent persons from all walks of life, and delegations from most of the organizations for the blind and deaf.
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Helen Keller lost both her sight and hearing when she was very young. The story of how her teacher, Anne Sullivan, taught Helen to communicate using the manual alphabet is well known. She later learned to speak, and studied at the Perkins Institution in Boston. She graduated from Radcliffe College with honors in 1904. Helen Keller spent her life writing, lecturing, and working on behalf of blind and deaf-blind people.
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Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscoumbia, Alabama. As a small child she was very sick and became blind and deaf. When she was six years old her father took her to Washington D.C. She was examined by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, who helped the deaf to communicate. Bell told Keller's father to write to the Perkins Institution for the Blind and send a teacher who can teach his daughter. The school sent a teacher named Ann Sullivan. Miss Sullivan was very patient and taught her to read Braille.
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Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880. In February of 1882 she lost her sight and hearing due to a childhood illness. In March of 1887 Anne Sullivan was hired to teach Helen, and on April 5, 1887 the miracle occurred: Helen associated water with the letters w-a-t-e-r that Anne was spelling into Helen's hand. Helen learned thirty words by the end of that day -- and never stopped learning.
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