[Nfb-history] {Disarmed} FW: Posts from Fred's Head from APH for 10/27/2016

Fri Oct 28 20:20:23 UTC 2016

Hello:

     This list is too quiet. I saw this Fred’s head post and thought it would be of interest. Morrison Heady 1829-1915 must have been a very interesting person.

Regards,

Robert

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The latest blog posts from Fred's Head from APH, a Blindness Blog. 

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In the 10/27/2016 edition:

*	Throwback Thursday Object: Morrison Heady and his "Talking Glove"

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By Paul Ferrara on Oct 27, 2016 12:00 pm

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I can’t believe it has taken me this long to blog about today’s object of the week.  It comes from one of my favorite Kentuckians,  <http://aph.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0d9bb2b66f092e599244d8765&id=038025620b&e=60d5a56a21> Morrison Heady (1829-1915).  He called it his “Talking Glove.”  It is a basic man’s leather glove—there was a day when a gentleman would not leave the house without his hat and gloves—with the twenty-six letters of the alphabet stenciled in black ink across the inner surfaces of the palms and fingers.

Heady lost his vision in separate accidents as a boy in Spencer County, Kentucky and his hearing at age 40 after a fall from a horse.  Inventor,  <http://aph.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=0d9bb2b66f092e599244d8765&id=6022aeb9cf&e=60d5a56a21> author, and teacher, known as the "Blind Bard of Kentucky," Heady invented this method to continue communicating.  Although Heady invented it independently, it had been known for centuries following the work of George Dalgarno in Oxford, England in 1680.  Heady was the fundraising agent for the American Printing House for the Blind in the 1860s.  He traveled all around central Kentucky demonstrating a model printing press and collecting donations.  And he was a popular neighborhood storyteller.  Kids would tap their story requests into his glove and like a human jukebox, Heady would launch into wild tales that delighted his audience.  You can still  <http://aph.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0d9bb2b66f092e599244d8765&id=a1c0afe357&e=60d5a56a21> buy his biography on Amazon.

This glove was donated by Nancy Scalabroni.  Her great, great grandmother was Emarine Heady Beard, Heady’s beloved sister.  Unfortunately, Nancy’s uncle had the glove laminated in plastic, a process that is difficult and expensive to reverse, but we’re working on it. The first photo shows the glove; the second picture is of Morrison in a dark suit, top hat, long white beard. He is wearing the glove and is talking with five neighborhood kids who cluster around him, one of whom is spelling out something to Morrison by tapping on the glove.

Micheal A. Hudson
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American Printing House for the Blind

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