[Nfbofnc] Opening the World by Touch

[Miriam Dixon]

Hello fellow NFBers!

I hope everyone is ready to come to Raleigh for the NFB of NC State 
Conference!  September 11-13, 2009

I am looking forward to this convention.  This will be a special 
convention as we are celebrating Louis Braille's 200th birthday.  There 
will be trivia questions about his life to the development of the full 
page braille display for the technology--from the past to the future in 
braille.

Braille literacy is so important.  It is important more than ever for 
all of us to support it.  We need to sell or buy the US Mint 
Bicentennial Louis Braille Silver Dollar.  It is beautiful.  It is in 
braille and a wonderful keepsake.  If we sell them we will get money for 
braille literacy.

We will also have a poster contest about what braille means to you.  As 
an individual or a Chapter get your creative juices going and make a 
tactile, collage and/or braille poster to express what braille means to 
you today.  I want everyone to get involved.  Pass the word in the next 
two weeks.  I do not want to hear someone say, "I did not hear about it, 
I wish I had!"  There is not much time left so get busy and pass the 
word.  There is a prize related to braille!

I hope we have a big turn out at the Convention!

See you soon, Miriam