Location: Still at Florence Harbor Marina – playing tourists
Today we had the opportunity to visit the birthplace of Helen Keller. Helen Adams Keller was born a healthy child on June 27, 1880, to Captain Arthur H. and Kate Adams Keller of Tuscumbia. At the tender age of 19 months, she was stricken with a severe illness which left her blind and deaf. Anne Sullivan, called the miracle worker, was Helen Keller’s teacher and what she did was truly a miracle.

Anne Sullivan was standing at the totally blind and deaf Helen Keller's side and was steadily pumping cool water into one of the girl's hands while repeatedly tapping out an alphabet code of five letters in the other—first slowly, then rapidly. The scene was repeated again and again as young Helen painstakingly struggled to break her world of silence.

Suddenly the signals crossed Helen's consciousness with a meaning. She knew that "w-a-t-e-r" meant the cool something flowing over her hand. Darkness began to melt from her mind like so much ice left out on the sunny March day. By nightfall, Helen had learned 30 words
We have all seen the movie “The Miracle Worker” with Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft. Today we saw where it all started. Go to http://www.helenkellerbirthplace.org/ to learn more.