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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Dear Fellow
Federationists—<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>This
morning the Jacobus tenBroek Library got a phone call from Junerose Killian of
Connecticut. Some of you know Junerose. She is in her eighties and with her sighted
husband, Jimmy (who celebrated his ninetieth birthday recently), she’s a
regular participant at the NFB national conventions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Junerose
and Jimmy are graduates of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cornell</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, which this
year is asking all entering freshman to read _Homer and Langley_, a recent
novel by E. L. Doctorow. Cornell sent Junerose a print copy of the book with a
request that she report on what she thought of it. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Here’s
a brief description of the book, lifted from _Publishers Weekly_:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#222222" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background:white'>Doctorow,
whose literary trophy shelf has got to be overflowing by now, delivers a small
but sweeping masterpiece about the infamous <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">New York</st1:State></st1:place> hermits, the Collyer brothers. When
WWI hits and the Spanish flu pandemic kills Homer and Langley's parents,
Langley, the elder, goes to war, with his Columbia education and his godlike
immunity to such an ordinary fate as death in a war. Homer, alone and going
blind, faces a world considerably dimmed though more deliciously felt by his
other senses. When <st1:City w:st="on">Langley</st1:City> returns, real
darkness descends on the eccentric orphans: inside their shuttered <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Fifth Avenue</st1:address></st1:Street>
mansion, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Langley</st1:City></st1:place>
hoards newspaper clippings and starts innumerable science projects, each
eventually abandoned, though he continues to imagine them in increasingly
bizarre ways, which he then recites to Homer. Occasionally, outsiders wander
through the house, exposing it as a living museum of artifacts, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Americana</st1:City></st1:place>, obscurity and
simmering madness. Doctorow's achievement is in not undermining the dignity of
two brothers who share a lush landscape built on imagination and incapacities.
It's a feat of distillation, vision and sympathy.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>While
Junerose is waiting to get an accessible copy from the Connecticut Library for
the Blind, Jimmy has read the one sent by Cornell. Junerose told me that Jimmy
thinks the book is good in some ways as it describes Homer, the blind brother,
and not so good in other ways. Junerose wants to know what other people think.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>If
you’ve read the book and have some thoughts on it, please sent them to me. If
you haven’t read the book, but would like to, theNLS has it available in Braille,
talking book, and downloadable talking book.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=teal face=Mistral><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Mistral;
color:teal'>Ed Morman</span></font><font size=5 color=navy
face="Brush Script MT"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";
color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:black'>Edward T. Morman, MSLS, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:black'>Director, Jacobus tenBroek Library<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:black'>NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND JERNIGAN INSTITUTE<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><font size=3 color=black face=Corbel><span
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w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><em><i><font size=3 color=black face=Corbel><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Corbel;color:black'> at
Jernigan Place</span></font></i></em></st1:address></st1:Street><font size=5
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"Brush Script MT";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=3 color=black face=Corbel><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Corbel;color:black'>Baltimore</span></font></st1:City><font
color=black face=Corbel><span style='font-family:Corbel;color:black'> <st1:State
w:st="on">MD</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">21230</st1:PostalCode></span></font></st1:place><font
color=black face=Corbel><span style='font-family:Corbel;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:black'>410.659.9314 x2225<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:black'>410.685.2340 (fax)</span></font><font size=5 color=navy
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color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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"Brush Script MT";color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><em><i><font
size=5 color=navy face="Californian FB"><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Californian FB";color:navy'>P</span></font></i></em><strong><b><i><font
size=5 color=navy face="Californian FB"><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Californian FB";color:navy;font-style:italic'>.S. Did you know it
is legal in the United States to pay people with disabilities less than the
minimum wage? Let's change this--learn more at </span></font></i></b></strong><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'><a
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size=5 color="#810081" face="Californian FB"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Californian FB";color:#810081;font-style:italic'>http://www.nfb.org/nfb/Fair_Wages_For_Workers_With_Disabilities.asp</span></font></i></b></strong></a></span></font><font
color=navy face=Corbel><span style='font-family:Corbel;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
nfbmd-bounces@nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbmd-bounces@nfbnet.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>NFBMD<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, October 05, 2011
3:56 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Maryland List<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Nfbmd] Mike Hingson to
speak at LBPH</span></font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Hello
All,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Everyone
is cordially invited to attend the Friends of LBPH Annual Meeting. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%'>Date: October
22, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%'>Place: LBPH, <st1:address
w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">415 Park Ave.</st1:Street>, <st1:City w:st="on">Baltimore</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">MD</st1:State></st1:address><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%'>Time: 10:00 am –
12:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>While
death is a certainty, we never know the time and place. How did a successful
blind businessman develop the courage, confidence, trust and teamwork to enable
him to escape death from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">World</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Trade</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
attack on 9/11? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Michael
Hingson, the author of Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide
Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero, will share his life experiences
that helped him meet the challenges of that sudden, devastating event.
Come to the Friends of LBPH Annual Meeting to meet and hear our keynote speaker
tell his inspirational story. Autographed audio and print books will be
available for purchase.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>At
this meeting Friends will also recognize the invaluable contributions of the
volunteers that assist LBPH. LBPH could not function without its
volunteers. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Friends
will also conduct a bake sale for the benefit of LBPH. After a heavy dose
of information, buying a treat for a good cause will provide the finishing
touches to the morning’s activities. Bring a treat, your wallet, and your
enthusiasm for LBPH. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Sharon
Maneki<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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