<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Help us recognize library volunteers! Meet two interesting authors
and learn what Friends is doing for the Library for the Blind and Print Disabled.
Attend the Friends Annual Meeting.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Date: October 30</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Time: 9:30AM-12:00PM</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif">There are three ways to attend:</font></p>
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</span>At the Library in person. Let us know you are
coming by sending an email to <a href="mailto:reference.desk@maryland.gov" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">reference.desk@maryland.gov</a>;</font></p>
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</span>Call into the meeting, <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">319-527-4994;</span></font></p>
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</span>Or join us on Zoom:</font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Meeting ID: 956 7084 1353<br>
Passcode: 94586848<br>
One tap mobile<br>
+13017158592,,95670841353#,,,,*94586848# US (Washington DC)<br>
+16465588656,,95670841353#,,,,*94586848# US (New York)</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">This year we are featuring two authors: Marilyn Davidson Elliott
and Dr. Joseph Fitzgerald. In <i style="">the Blind Mechanic</i>, Mrs. Elliott tells us
about her dad, Eric Davidson, who was an auto mechanic during the time of the
1920s and 1930s when there were very few blind people employed in anything. This
book is available on BARD. The number is DB<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">104816. Dr. Joseph Fitzgerald’s informative
book about the civil rights activist Gloria Richardson sheds light on the
struggle for equal rights on the eastern shore of Maryland. We hope that LBPD
will record this book and it will be available for patrons to read soon. Eric
Davidson and Gloria Richardson were pioneers who turned their dreams into
reality. Don’t miss this program!</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></font></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font size="2">Sharon Maneki, Director of Legislation and Advocacy</font></b></div><div><font size="2">National Federation of the Blind of Maryland</font></div><div><font size="2">410-715-9596</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">The National Federation of the Blind of Maryland knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Everyday we raise the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.<br></font></div><div><b><font size="2"></font></b></div><div><b><font size="2"><br></font></b></div></div></div></div></div>