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"The Frost King" Fiasco
When she was 11, Helen wrote a story she thought was her own, and "The Frost King" was published by the director of the Perkins Institute.  She had not recalled someone had once read "The Frost Fairies" (by Margaret T. Canby) to her.  Eight people interrogated Helen, about her plagiarized ...
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A Cape Cod Vacation
Chapter 10 - After her visit to Boston, Helen and her teacher went on holiday to Cape Cod.  For the first time in her life, she felt what it was like to be in the ocean.  When a wave pulled her under the water, she was very frightened.  Also puzzled, she asked Anne Sullivan:  "Wh...
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A Christmas Carol - Mercury Theatre on the Air
  By the later part of 1939, Orson Welles and his Mercury-Theatre-on-the-Air players were sponsored by Campbell Soup.  Their broadcasts, of various stories, were aired as features of the Campbell Playhouse. In this radio dramatization of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens - which aire...
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A Dream within a Dream, by Edgar Allen Poe - Audio
Edgar Allan Poe published a poem entitled "Imitation," in 1827.  During the last year of his life - 1849 - he published a different version of that earlier work, this time entitled "A Dream within a Dream." Because the owners of a popular weekly newspaper - called "The Flag of Our Union" - pai...
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A Loose Wire

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A Loose Wire

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A Poison Tree, by William Blake - Audio
William Blake (1757-1827) was a young man, in his late teens, when he witnessed the "Gordon Riots" in London.  It was June, of 1780, and an angry mob burned buildings and engaged in massive disorderly conduct.  According to a Proclamation by King George III - issued on the 7th of June, 17...
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A Student at Perkins Institution for the Blind
Helen visited the Perkins Institute for the Blind in May of 1888.  For the first time in her life, she met other children who used the manual alphabet.  It was, she said, like coming home to her own country.  She visited places around Boston, and especially loved the Pilgrims' Plymout...
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A Tale of Two Cities - Mercury Theatre on the Air
  Orson Welles and Martin Gabel star in this Mercury Theatre on the Air production of Charles Dicken's novel, A Tale of Two Cities.  The story was first broadcast, on the CBS network, on July 25, 1938. This was the third program of the first series of Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast...
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A Tale of Two Cities, By Charles Dickens - Chapter 1 - Audio
Charles Dickens' famous story - A Tale of Two Cities - compares and contrasts England and France, London and Paris.  The opening chapter takes us back to 1775. It was a tumultuous year, on many levels.  In real life ... Britain's American colonies had rebeled.  In A Tale of Two Citi...
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