I have Kevin V. s ski picture on my fridge and all my Florida friends are jealous. My grandchildren will visit next week. They are living on a sail boat this year. Educator Anne Mansfield Sullivan was born in 1866 to illiterate potato famine refugees from Limerick, Ireland. Anne got trachoma when she was two.
Trachoma is a disease of the inner surface of the eye lid and the cornea.
It left her almost blind. When Annie was ten, her mother died, and her dad sent Annie with Jamie, her brother, to the poor house in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. When Annie was fourteen, she went to the Perkins Institute in Boston. Annie went to school there until she graduated when she was twenty. When she was twenty she was invited to go to the Keller home to teach Helen Keller.