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It was quiet for a little while, but now things are progressing again. Saturday I met with an architect who volunteered his time and services to work up an estimate on repairing/restoring the Helen Keller House (pictured).
I've also had some great conversations with people interested in my project. A not-for-profit organization may want to work with me on this and I also spoke with Keller J. Thompson today (Helen Keller's great grand niece). Please stay tuned!
I'm working on private funding as well as still lobbying Suffolk County to put money aside in their budget to restore the house.
Today Suffolk County CEQ held a meeting pertaining to the house and it was recommended that they still go ahead with the demolition!!! I was not able to attend this meeting. I am not happy about their recommendation.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
From Ian Toy's Save the Helen Keller House Facebook site on May 19:
