[Nfbf-l] Fw: Matilda Ziegler Magazine

[Patricia A. Lipovsky]

Ah, what a shame.  I really enjoyed reading that mamgazine as well.


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>I think this is very sad, but I understand the reasoning behind its ending.
> I really enjoyed the Ziegler and will miss it. I always got it in Braille
> until it went to e-mail. There were articles in it you really didn't see
> anywhere else and I always liked the Reader's Forum.
>
> Sherri
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind" <editor at matildaziegler.com>
> To: <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 2:00 PM
> Subject: Matilda Ziegler Magazine
>
>
> July 25, 2014
>
> As you are aware the Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind has been
> suspended for the past several months pending a review by the Board of
> Directors of The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind. Considerable
> time was spent evaluating its substance, breadth of distribution, and
> readers' responses. With heavy heart the directors voted to discontinue 
> the
> weekly magazine and use the Foundation's resources solely for scientific
> research through grants to highly innovative medical researchers who are
> making important advances in vision research.
>
> We've come a long way from when my great grandmother, Electa Matilda
> Ziegler, founded the magazine in 1907 with the goal of producing reading
> material for the blind "as much as possible like that published for the
> seeing." Raised type books of the era were expensive, and the freely
> circulated magazine helped to fill an information void.
>
> Today's blind and those with visual impairment can obtain books and
> magazines in Braille, on cassette, and in DVD or CD format from the 
> National
> Library Service and the American Foundation for the Blind. Radio,
> television, internet, and commercially produced audio books have all 
> become
> accessible, and provide resources that could not have been imagined in 
> 1907.
>
> Your emails and letters show that we've touched the lives of thousands of
> blind and vision impaired people. The Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the 
> Blind
> was once described by Helen Keller as a "godsend," and Mark Twain 
> described
> it as "one of the noblest benefactions of his lifetime." We hope to 
> realize
> a medical breakthrough that will be worthy of the same praise.
>
> On behalf of the E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation Board I sincerely thank you
> for your loyal readership over our many years.
>
> Cynthia Ziegler Brighton
> President
>
>
> This email was sent to flmom2006 at gmail.com.
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