Helen Keller.
Anne Sullivan’s pioneering work in Tuscumbia.
Ivy Green, The Miracle Worker, and that iconic water pump.
I struggled with how to do these three pieces that are inextricably interwoven and part of the American story. It seemed to make the most sense to honor them together.
No. 12: Helen Keller
Old money, old South — you wouldn’t expect the daughter of a Confederate general and Confederate captain from Tuscumbia to become a radical suffragette, socialist firebrand, and anti-militarist.
Born blind, you wouldn’t expect such a person to pen one of the most widely-read American autobiographies — and 11 other books.