[nfbwatlk] Ronnie Milsap Receives Legend Award

[Alco Canfield]

Yes, Carl, but you had the sense and intelligence to realize that you needed
to use a cane.

Alco

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 10:44 PM
To: amcanfield at comcast.net; NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Ronnie Milsap Receives Legend Award

When I was 17, and recovering from detached retina surgery, a blind man, 
George Bailey came to my door and offered to teach me typing.
It turned out that George had been given my name by the old Washington State

Association of the Blind.
Totally blind, George traveled without the benefit of a cane of any type. 
His only travel tool was his whistle.  He told me he could listen to the 
echo and tell what was around him.
George was an employee of the Seattle Lighthouse.  He sold brooms door to 
door, taught newly blinded folks, and played the University of Washington 
chimes, daily.
George said that when he was a young man, they had not yet developed the 
long white travel cane.  If he were going to get out and about, he had to do

it without such tools.

Although I had the greatest of respect for George, I never felt that because

he did not use a cane, that I didn't need one, either.
Even though I really struggled over using a travel cane, I knew that I would

have to become proficient with it if I was going to take on the world.
Carl Jarvis


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