Helen+Keller

** Helen Keller was born June 27 Tuscumbia, Alabama. In 1882 she got sick with a disease that her doctor called the ‘Brain Fever’. Helen survived the fever but it was later found out that she had lost her ability to hear and see, and she was not yet able to speak. Helen’s doctor spent a lot of time with Helen trying to teach her the word ‘water’ in sign language. Helen finally learned sign language and was sent to a school for the blind and deaf. Helen set out for a college education later on after schooling, and after college set out in the world for a career of speeches. Helen told many speeches and became famous in certain parts of the world. In 1920 Helen began a normal career in Vaudeville with Anne Sullivan Macy. In 1927, one year after Sullivan dies, Keller tours countries around the world, such as Korea, Japan and Manchuria with her new assistant, Polly Thomson. **
 * Helen Keller **