The Moment at the Water Pump
For weeks, Annie Sullivan had been pressing letter shapes into seven-year-old Helen Keller's palm. Helen could mimic the finger movements, but she treated them as...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Hebrews 1:1-4.
For weeks, Annie Sullivan had been pressing letter shapes into seven-year-old Helen Keller's palm. Helen could mimic the finger movements, but she treated them as a game — disconnected fragments with no meaning. Sullivan spelled D-O-L-L while handing her a doll, C-A-K-E at the table. Helen memorized the motions but never grasped what they pointed to. Then came April 5, 1887, at the water pump behind the Keller home in Tuscumbia, Alabama.…
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