[Nfb-history] Trying To Find "Braille Monitor" Article About Early History Of LCB

[Kresmer, Anna]

Good afternoon Kane,

I believe that the article you are looking for is called "Growth and Innovation in Louisiana and Beyond" by Joanne Wilson, which was published in November of 2011. You can find this article online at https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm11/bm1110/bm111008.htm. 

Cordially,
Anna

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Subject: [Nfb-history] Trying To Find "Braille Monitor" Article About Early History Of LCB

Greetings.

I was chatting to a friend online today about an article I read in an edition of "The Braille Monitor"--I think it was published in 2010 or 2011--in which either Dr. Joanne Wilson or Pam Allen was recounting how the Louisiana Center was built after the Louisiana affiliate's leadership was turned over back in the 1980s.  This story was actually quite detailed and fascinating, as it pointed to the huge amount of dysfunction that occurred in Louisiana--board meetings always resulting in major arguments and never being able to get anything done on a state level--even corruption--until a popular uprising among the organized blind in that state caused the offending members of the Louisiana Federation's board to be removed and replaced with people who had a vision for something bigger and better and more ethically conducted.

It bothers me that I cannot find the article from which this story came.  Does anyone have a record of which edition it was published in?

Alternatively, maybe I'm just losing my marbles.

Thanks.

-Kane

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