Water Pump At Helen Kellers Birthplace
by Bettmann
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Water Pump At Helen Kellers Birthplace
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Bettmann
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(Original Caption) Tuscumbia, Alabama: At this pump, behind her birthplace at Tuscumbia, Ala., Helen Keller learned her first word. Miss Sullivan pumped cool liquid over one of Helen's hands, spelling w-a-t-e-r in the manual alphabet in the other. Like an earthquake, Miss Keller saw a connection. "Suddenly," she says, "I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten, a thrill of returning thought, and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me." By nightfall, she had learned 30 words.
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May 12th, 2020
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