It was an agreeable spring afternoon in the small north-Alabama town of Tuscumbia when Anne Sullivan arrived at the home of her new student, six-year-old Helen Keller. Helen called this the most important day of her life. When she was a nineteen-month-old toddler, Helen was struck by the illness that, as she described it, closed her eyes and ears for- ever and plunged her into the unconsciousness of a newborn baby. Life was very unhappy for Helen and for those who loved her most, her family. .
“ A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.” — Helen Keller
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