Hi Cindy!Thanks for including this message. I will have to hop on the NPR site to see if I can find this story to listen to..
Debby At 07:59 PM 1/4/2010, Cindy wrote
Probably those of you who listen to NPR know about this, but my daughter just sent this to me and she and I both thought it might be of interest to you.Cindy Do you know about maps for the blind? I heard a story > about it on npr > this morning. This organization up here in SF called > the Lighthouse is > making them - so far they have sold 15. The story was > very interesting, > about where in our brains we map places and what the > ability to "see" a > neighborhood or city does for blind people that they can't > experience > otherwise. You could probably hear the story or read > the transcript on > the npr web site. > > Anyway I thought you might want to pass that onto your book > group in > case they don't know about it yet. They have maps of > the entire U.S. > but said most of the requests they have received have been > from people > wanting to "see" what their own city looks like. > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.comVersion: 9.0.725 / Virus Database: 270.14.125/2600 - Release Date: 01/04/10 13:35:00
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