Ivy Green - Helen Keller's Childhood Home
Ivy Green is the name for the childhood home of Helen Keller. It is located in Tuscumbia, Alabama. The house was built in 1820 and is a simple white clapboard house. Address: 300 N Commons St W, Tuscumbia, AL 35674. The house is open for tours.
Helen Keller Birth Place | 72 Hours in Alabama | Ivey Green | Tuscumbia | Helen Keller House |
We’re continuing our Alabama adventures by sharing another bucket list location that we got to checked off our list this summer!
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Reese LOVES all things, Helen Keller. She’s read the books, watched the movie and even made an attempt to learn Braille. So, we couldn’t visit Alabama without making a side trip to Tuscumbia were we did a tour of the Helen Keller Birthplace!
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Birthplace of Helen Keller toured by Jamie and Brandy Fair
Helen Keller
Tuscumbia native Helen Keller is popularly remembered as the deaf and blind child who learned sign language from her teacher Anne Sullivan at the Keller home, Ivy Green. But during her adult life, she was a tireless activist on behalf of workers' and women's rights, a prolific author, and an unofficial U.S. ambassador to the world. Her most famous publication is her bestselling 1903 autobiography, “The Story of My Life”. Through her work with the American Foundation for the Blind, Keller advocated for broadened educational and employment possibilities for blind people, and the State Department funded her international travel and advocacy of people with disabilities. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson awarded her the Congressional Medal of Freedom. A bronze statue depicting a young Helen Keller represents Alabama in the U.S. Capitol and she is featured on our state quarter.
Griffith honors Alabama icon Helen Keller
Congressman Parker Griffith honors Alabama icon Helen Keller on the House floor. In October, a statue of Keller will be dedicated in Washington, D.C.
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How Helen Keller learned to talk. With Anne Sullivan. It was amazing to watch!!
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree.[2][3] The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker. Her birthplace in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, is now a museum[4] and sponsors an annual Helen Keller Day. Her birthday on June 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and was authorized at the federal level by presidential proclamation by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, the 100th anniversary of her birth.
A prolific author, Keller was well-traveled and outspoken in her convictions. A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, antimilitarism, and other similar causes. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1971[5] and was one of twelve inaugural inductees to the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame on June 8, 2015.[6] Helen proved to the world that deaf people could all learn to communicate and that they could survive in the hearing world. She also taught that deaf people are capable of doing things that hearing people can do. She is one of the most famous deaf people in history and she is an idol to many deaf people in the world.[7]
Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her family lived on a homestead, Ivy Green,[4] that Helen's grandfather had built decades earlier.[8] She had two younger siblings, Mildred Campbell and Phillip Brooks Keller, and two older half-brothers from her father's prior marriage, James and William Simpson Keller.[9]
Her father, Arthur H. Keller,[10] spent many years as an editor for the Tuscumbia North Alabamian, and had served as a captain for the Confederate Army.[8] Her paternal grandmother was the second cousin of Robert E. Lee.[11] Her mother, Kate Adams,[12] was the daughter of Charles W. Adams, a Confederate general.[13] Though originally from Massachusetts, Charles Adams also fought for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, earning the rank of colonel (and acting brigadier-general). Her paternal lineage was traced to Casper Keller, a native of Switzerland.[11][14] One of Helen's Swiss ancestors was the first teacher for the deaf in Zurich. Keller reflected on this coincidence in her first autobiography, stating that there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.[11] Helen Keller was born with the ability to see and hear. At 19 months old, she contracted an illness described by doctors as an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain, which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis.[15] The illness left her both deaf and blind. At that time, she was able to communicate somewhat with Martha Washington, the six-year-old daughter of the family cook, who understood her signs;[16] by the age of seven, Keller had more than 60 home signs to communicate with her family. Even though blind and Deaf, Helen Keller had passed through many obstacles and she learned to live with her disabilities. She learned how to tell which person was walking by from the vibrations their footsteps would make. The sex and age of the person could be identified by how strong and continuous the steps were.[17]
In 1886, Keller's mother, inspired by an account in Charles Dickens' American Notes of the successful education of another deaf and blind woman, Laura Bridgman, dispatched the young Keller, accompanied by her father, to seek out physician J. Julian Chisolm, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Baltimore, for advice.[18] Chisholm referred the Kellers to Alexander Graham Bell, who was working with deaf children at the time. Bell advised them to contact the Perkins Institute for the Blind, the school where Bridgman had been educated, which was then located in South Boston. Michael Anagnos, the school's director, asked 20-year-old former student Anne Sullivan, herself visually impaired, to become Keller's instructor. It was the beginning of a 49-year-long relationship during which Sullivan evolved into Keller's governess and eventually her companion.
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Helen Keller, statue at Capitol of Alabama
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Helen Keller House
We detoured off the Natchez Trace and headed for Tuscumbia, Alabama to see where Helen Keller was born in 1881. When Helen was 19 months old she contracted a serious fever, which may have been scarlet fever or meningitis. This left her deaf and blind. Unable to communicate, she became a difficult child. You can see the room she lived in and the famous pump where Annie Sullivan spelled out water in one hand while the cool water pored over Helens other hand. Helen explained, Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten, a thrill of returning thought, and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me.
Unveiling of Helen Keller Statue at Alabama State Capitol.mp4
Governor Bob Riley unveiled the bronze statue of Helen Keller at the Alabama State Capitol, Dec. 4, 2009. It is an exact replica of the statue unveiled in Washington, DC in October. Speakers include, Gov and Mrs Bob Riley and Keller Johnson Thompson, the grand neice of Helen Keller.
A blind woman in attendance is seen touching the statue
Helen Keller | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:18 1 Early childhood and illness
00:06:12 2 Formal education
00:08:00 3 Example of her lectures
00:10:08 4 Companions
00:11:56 5 Political activities
00:16:56 6 Writings
00:19:27 7 Overseas visits
00:19:55 8 Later life
00:21:03 9 Portrayals
00:24:35 10 Posthumous honors
00:26:01 11 Archival material
00:26:24 12 See also
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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, was made famous by Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, and its adaptations for film and stage, The Miracle Worker. Her birthplace in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, is now a museum and sponsors an annual Helen Keller Day. Her June 27 birthday is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in Pennsylvania and, in the centenary year of her birth, was recognized by a presidential proclamation from Jimmy Carter.
A prolific author, Keller was well-traveled and outspoken in her convictions. A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, antimilitarism, and other similar causes. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1971 and was one of twelve inaugural inductees to the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame on June 8, 2015.
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U.S. Route 43 (Alabama) | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:22 1 Route description
00:01:32 1.1 Alabama
00:40:07 1.2 Tennessee
00:42:57 1.3 National Highway System
00:43:33 2 History
00:44:14 3 Future
00:45:01 4 Major intersections
00:45:11 5 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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Speaking Rate: 0.8793788252024974
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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U.S. Route 43 (US 43) is a 410-mile-long (660 km) north–south United States Highway in the East South Central States of Alabama and Tennessee. It travels from Prichard, Alabama to Columbia, Tennessee. The highway's southern terminus is in Prichard, at an intersection with US 90. Its northern terminus is in Columbia, Tennessee, at an intersection with US 31/US 412/US 412 Bus.
In Alabama and Tennessee, all of the U.S. Highways in each state have one or more unsigned state highways designated along its length. US 43 travels concurrently with Alabama State Route 13 (SR 13) from its southern terminus to an intersection in southeastern Fayette County. For the rest of its length in the state, US 43 is concurrent with signed state highways. In Tennessee, US 43 travels concurrently with Tennessee State Route 6 (SR 6) along its entire length in the state. It also has an unsigned concurrency with SR 227 between Saint Joseph and Loretto.
U.S. Route 43 in Alabama | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:27 1 Route description
00:01:36 1.1 Alabama
00:42:02 1.2 Tennessee
00:45:00 1.3 National Highway System
00:45:37 2 History
00:46:20 3 Future
00:47:09 4 Major intersections
00:47:19 5 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio:
Other Wikipedia audio articles at:
Upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
Speaking Rate: 0.8107314894700246
Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-E
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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U.S. Route 43 (US 43) is a 410-mile-long (660 km) north–south United States Highway in the East South Central States of Alabama and Tennessee. It travels from Prichard, Alabama to Columbia, Tennessee. The highway's southern terminus is in Prichard, at an intersection with US 90. Its northern terminus is in Columbia, Tennessee, at an intersection with US 31/US 412/US 412 Bus.
In Alabama and Tennessee, all of the U.S. Highways in each state have one or more unsigned state highways designated along its length. US 43 travels concurrently with Alabama State Route 13 (SR 13) from its southern terminus to an intersection in southeastern Fayette County. For the rest of its length in the state, US 43 is concurrent with signed state highways. In Tennessee, US 43 travels concurrently with Tennessee State Route 6 (SR 6) along its entire length in the state. It also has an unsigned concurrency with SR 227 between Saint Joseph and Loretto.