Broadcasting for the Blind
Monday, July 3rd, 2006Not many know that my grandfather was blind. He was an exceptional man who made his living operating legal slot machines and tuning pianos, as independent as Ben Franklin and just as self reliant. He was an excellenter writer and many times reminded me that the typewriter was invented primarily to assist the blind. I was with him when Armstrong landed on the moon; and needed no reminder of how he lost his eyesight on a wagon train ride from Nebraska to Wyoming, age six. For reasons I can’t explain, I often feel he’s beside me on our GLD “voyages”. (more…)
