The name Helen Keller conjures up, for many people, a deaf-blind-mute girl learning to communicate via sign language. It is a scene straight out of “The Miracle Worker,” the biographical play ...

Perhaps one of the reasons why it is so difficult for some people to believe in Helen Keller is that her story involves not just one, but two geniuses. Both Keller and Anne Sullivan, Keller’s ...

Helen Keller refused to have anything to do with ... He wrote to the Perkins Institute at Boston, and a young teacher, Miss Anne Sullivan, was sent down to be Helen’s companion and teacher.

Ripped from the history books, The Miracle Worker is tells the incredible story of Helen Keller, a young girl afflicted with both blind and deafness, and Annie Sullivan, the extraordinary teacher ...

Her parents hired a teacher, Ann Sullivan, to help her communicate. Anne took Helen to a water pump and as the water splashed on her hands, she spelt W-A-T-E-R in her hand. That day, Helen Keller ...

Helen Keller '04, perhaps Radcliffe's most reknowned ... with the help of her childhood teacher and longtime companion Anne Sullivan, the first person with these handicaps to acquire normal ...

Information that is “common knowledge” must change from generation to generation. Or else the information age decreases how much knowledge is “common.” Forty years ago I could mention the name of ...

Special to IFN Tickets are now available for the upcoming Theatre Statesville production of "The Miracle Worker," based on the true story of Helen ...