Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, The Original Deaf-Blind Girl
by
Elisabeth Gitter
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The resurrected story of a deaf-blind girl and the man who brought her out of silence.
In 1837, Samuel Gridley Howe, director of Boston's Perkins Institution for the Blind, heard about a bright, deaf-blind seven-year-old, the daughter of New Hampshire farmers. At once he resolved to rescue...