Helen Keller House

We detoured off the Natchez Trace and headed for Tuscumbia, Alabama to see where Helen Keller was born in 1881. When Helen was 19 months old she contracted a serious fever, which may have been scarlet fever or meningitis. This left her deaf and blind. Unable to communicate, she became a difficult child. You can see the room she lived in and the famous pump where Annie Sullivan spelled out water in one hand while the cool water pored over Helens other hand. Helen explained, Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten, a thrill of returning thought, and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me.

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[mrpitv]

thanks for watching.

[fisteberg]

thanks for this clip.Helenkeller's birthplace is so lovely! Her parent's home was beautiful and the cottage she was born into was beautiful too;the wooden furniture are so pretty and her antique wooden cradle too and the doll as well.I love antique furniture.

[musicfreaakx3o]

@dk5388 just a joke!

[dk5388]

@musicfreaakx3o ...........so?!?

[musicfreaakx3o]

@dk5388 helen keller couldnt watch or hear it so she wouldnt know (;

[Porrie13]

@watchthisgaming1000 Oh, yeah. BIG coincidence. O.o'

[watchthisgaming1000]

@Porrie13 i am kin to both on both sides of my famly, big coincidence huh? but its true

[Porrie13]

@watchthisgaming1000 How can you be related to both Lewis AND Clark when they had no relations whatsoever?

[dk5388]

i wonder if helen keller would watch this n say, "oh the good old days."

[Tassy701]

she was born in 1880 not 1881

[fisteberg]

@chuckyrocks21102 So do I but believe me or not,when you think very deeply to someone,he sometimes can be like he's alive.Whenever I watch helen Keller's video,gives me the impression she's here,and her soul is still here.When you love a person and carry her within you it's the same in life.She's here even if she's not here next to you.

[watchthisgaming1000]

@alexxipeli dude, just because hellen was famous doesnt mean that she didnt have cousins or any type of kin.

I am truly related to Lewis & Clark, and i had a geneology done from a proffessor for proof. like i said, just because someone is famous, doesnt mean they aren't related to someone...