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| What happened in May of 1888 to Helen? | Helen went by train to Boston, Massachusetts with Miss Anne Sullivanto the Perkinds Institute for the Blind and Helen made friends qwith other little blind children. |
| Nancy | Helen's rag doll that was dressed in a new gingham dress and a beruffled sunbonnet with two bead eyes that was washed while in Boston because she was covered in dirt, but this ruined the doll. |
| Why was it so exciting to Helen to be able to be with the other blind children? | Helen could communicate witht the other children because they knew the manual alphabet, and it gave her great joy to be able to talk with children in her own language - sign language. |
| As Helen and Miss Sullivan traveled by train to Boston, Massachusetts, what did Miss Sullivan do? | Miss Sullivan described the Beautiful Tennessee River, the great cottonfields, the hills and woods and the crowds of laughing negroes at the stations. |
| what did Helen do while she was in Boston, Massachusetts? | She visited Bunker Hill where she had her first lesson in history about the brave men who had fought on the spot against the British. She also went to Phymouth where the Pilgrims landed in 1620. |
| Who was a new friend that Helen made in Boston, Massachusetts? | She met Mr. William Endicott and his daughter and visited their home at Beverly farms. She went through their rose garden with their dogs, Leo and Fritz and their horse Nimrod. |
| What did Helen call Boston? | She called it "the city of kind hearts." |
| When Perkinds Institute closed for the summer | They went to the island of Cape Cod by Boston, and stayed in the town called Brewster with their dear friend, Mrs. Hopkins. |
| what did Helen do on Cape Cod that summer? | She put on a bathing suit and sprang out upon the warm sand and without fear plunged into the cool water. But she became scared when her foot struck a rock and a rush of water went over her head. |
| What questions did Helen ask her teacher after Helen's experience with the Atlantic Ocean water swept over he at Cape Cod? | "Who put salt in the water?" |
| What was sitting on the beach by the ocean like for Helen? | She could feel the breakers swoop back to gather themselves for a might leap, and as she clung to the rock fascinated, she felt the dash and roar of the rushing sea! |
| What did Helen love about being on the beach? | She loved the tang of the untainted, fresh and free sea air that was like a cool, quieting thought, and sea shells and pebbles and seaweed with tiny living creatures attached to it never lost their fascination for her. |
| What did Helen realize after she captured a sea crab, but somehow escaped? | Helen realized that is was neither kind nor wise to force a poor, dumb creature out of its element, and she was happy that the crab had returned to the sea. |
| What was Fern Quarry? | It was the summer cottage owned by the Keller family that was about 14 miles from Tuscumbia. It was near a Limestone Quarry that had been abandoned. It was a rough camp with small rooms arranged on each side of a long open hall. At the back door there was a great butternut tree. |
| What was Fern Quarry like? | It was a wonderful cool place with great oaks and splendid evergreens with trunks like mossy pillars. It smelled of cool, delicious odors that came up from the earth at the close of the day. |
| What happened in the evening at Fern Quarry? | Many visitors came. Men played cards by the campfire in the evening and told stories of fowl, fish and turkey they had shot. |
| What were the mornings like at Fern Quarry | Helen would awaken by the smell of coffee, the rattling of guns and heavy footsteps of the men getting ready to go hunting. |
| What did Helen call her pony that she took to Fern Quarry? | She called it Black Beauty after the pony in the novel that she had read. |
| What would Helen do with Mildred and her cousins? | They would go hunting for persimmons, but they would not eat them. |
