From: Karen.Keil@p0.f809.n104.z1.fidonet.org (Karen Keil)
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Subject: SHHH report 13 of 13
Date: 12 Aug 92 21:34:17 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Part 13 of the SHHH convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

July 1, 1992

This report will be brief to be followed with some miscellaneous
information and observations.

That morning I toured the Art Museum and saw the artwork of
Marvin Cone and Grant Wood, both natives of the region.  You may
remember Grant Wood as the painter of the painting, AMERICAN
GOTHIC, which showed a farmer holding a pitchfork and his wife
standing next to him in front of a farmhouse.  This painting has
been spoofed and re-interpreted over the years.  Wood painted
other paintings; some were of the rolling Iowa farmlands and
portraits of people. The museum really caught the feeling of the
area.  (No, AMERICAN GOTHIC was not there!)

Now it was time to head home via the airport.  The cab driver
asked me where I was from and he said that he has driven people
from all over the world.

Two other conventioners also arrived at my gate, thinking they
were the last ones to leave Cedar Rapids. The plane took off and
this time I had my assigned window seat.  I did not see much of
the land below as we shortly flew over a thick cloud cover that
seldom broke.  The plane was buffeted as it descended through the
cover for some minutes before finally landing in Denver.  I was
home---very tired and accompanied by stuffed luggage labeled
'heavy'!---but what a week it was!

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES:

The SHHH bookstore had copies of the book,

     Legal Rights:  The Guide for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
People, 1992 4th ed.  $19.95.

     It quickly sold out.  It's published by the National Center
for Law and Deafness, a public service of Gallaudet University,
Washington, D. C., USA.    The contents cover among other things,
health care and social services, employment, telephone service,
the legal system, television, the ADA, etc..  It does not seem to
cover privacy areas at first glance.  You can obtain it at SHHH.

     Linda Day, the singer at the reception, had copies of her
tape, INNOCENT FACES, featuring ten songs, including  MAKE YOUR
DREAMS COME TRUE.  She was donating $2.00 off the price of each
tape sold to SHHH.  There was a photocopied newspaper article
about her on the table by the tapes, but I didn't know if there
was originally a stack with only one left or not, but I didn't
take one.  By the time I came back, the article was gone.

     Other items include video tapes, such as:
     HERE'S TO THE ADA $35.00/$40.00
     A GOOD INVESTMENT:  MEETING THE NEEDS OF YOUR HARD OF
HEARING EMPLOYEES $20.00
     COMPUTER ASSISTED NOTETAKING--'NOW YOU SEE IT: VISUAL
TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING PEOPLE'
$15.00

     Some books from one of the sessions included CARPAL TUNNEL
SYNDROME: PREVENTION AND TREATMENT by Kate Montgomery.

     Copies of various articles on various subjects were sold,
too, along with some convention T-shirts.

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The signalling device to signal the phone ringing and the door
knocking was not of much real use.  It was too sensitive, making
the lamp blink a lot if I ever as so much as rattle a section of
the newspaper or a paper bag.  Finally, by the end of the
Convention, the device was disabled--enough was enough!

The phone had a red light that lit up all the time, even in the
dead of the night.  It was such a disturbance, keeping me awake
at night that finally I propped a pillow up to block the view of
it.  So there!

When I told some people that I was going to Iowa, they thought
that I was going to visit relatives.  No, I said, I was going to
a SHHH convention!  Most people thought there was nothing
exciting in Iowa to see.  That's not true!  I want to go back
sometime, visiting the Amana Colonies some more and other parts
of the state.  Every state has something to offer, even the
seemingly 'bland' ones.

Would I want to go to the convention again if I knew then what I
know now?  Yes, you bet.

                     -----end of SHHH report----

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