History Letter | Helen Keller
Dear Ada,
My name is Helen Keller and I was born over 100 years ago in1880, in Alabama. When I was one year old, I had a bad illness that left me deaf and blind. As I got a little older, I made friends with Martha, the daughter of our cook. We invented a language using our hands. We could make hand signs for over 60 different words by the time I was seven years old. Martha was a wonderful friend. My family took me to a doctor who sent us to a special place for blind people where I met the woman who was to become my teacher.
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History Letter | Ada Deer
Dear Ada,
My name is Ada Deer (and that may be the funniest opening to a letter I’ve ever written). I am honored to be included in this series of important women in history because I am one of the few women who are still alive. My name may not be familiar to you, so I will tell you a little bit about myself. I was born in 1935, just a few years after your great-grandmothers Ada and Shirley. I was born right here in Wisconsin in a place called Keshena, where I grew up living on an Indian reservation. I lived in a log cabin near the Wolf River. There was no electricity or running water.
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History Letter | Frida Kahlo
Dear Ada,
My name is Ada Deer (and that may be the funniest opening to a letter I’ve ever written). I am honored to be included in this series of important women in history because I am one of the few women who are still alive. My name may not be familiar to you, so I will tell you a little bit about myself. I was born in 1935, just a few years after your great-grandmothers Ada and Shirley. I was born right here in Wisconsin in a place called Keshena, where I grew up living on an Indian reservation. I lived in a log cabin near the Wolf River. There was no electricity or running water.
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