[Colorado-talk] Happy 75th Birthday NfB!

[Dan Burke]

A new candidate for the NFB Songbook!

And I was just reading the Braille Monitor's reprint of Tom Bickford's
address to the convention last summer on the history of NFB songs.

On 11/16/15, Ann Cunningham via Colorado-talk <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 75 years ago today Dr. tenBroek challenged the blind to play in the
> mainsteam kind of way.  So let me introduce to you the the one and only NFB
> of Dr. tenB's Lively Hearts Club Band!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Nov 16, 2015, at 3:25 PM, Dan Burke via Colorado-talk
>> <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Today is the day - the 75th anniversary of the founding of the
>> National Federation of the Blind, NOvember 16, 1940 in Wilkes-Barre,
>> Pennsylvania.  Julie and I had the opportunity and privelege to attend
>> the NFB of Pennsylvania's convention this weekend, held in the same
>> hotel in Wilkes-Barre.  The following article appeared in the local
>> paper on Sunday morning:
>>
>> Statewide blind group meets at birthplace
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>> Photo: Christopher Dolan, License: N/A, Created: 2015:11:14 18:13:45
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>> National Federation of the Blind of Pennsylvania President James
>> Antonacci, center, chats with Rep. Matt Cartwright's District Director
>> Bob Morgan, left,
>> and state Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski at a meeting of the Pennsylvania
>> chapter of the National Federation of the Blind at Genetti's in
>> Wilkes-Barre on Saturday,
>> Nov. 14. Christopher Dolan / Staff Photographer
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>> National Federation of the Blind representative Barbara Pierce,
>> center, shares a laugh with guests at a meeting of the Pennsylvania
>> chapter of the National
>> Federation of the Blind at Genetti's in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday, Nov.
>> 14. Christopher Dolan / Staff Photographer
>>
>> WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania chapter of the National Federation of
>> the Blind held its annual convention this weekend at the spot where
>> the organization
>> was born in 1940: Best Western Genetti Hotel & Conference Center.
>>
>> In November 1940, a group of 16 advocates for the blind, from seven
>> states, gathered in Wilkes-Barre at the hotel that is now Genetti’s.
>> They formed a
>> constitution that created the National Federation of the Blind, or
>> NFB, which grew to be the largest organization led by blind people in
>> the nation.
>>
>> To mark the 75th anniversary of the federation’s founding, the
>> Pennsylvania chapter chose Wilkes-Barre as the site for this year’s
>> state convention, said
>> Lynn Heitz, the chapter’s first vice president.
>>
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