Blind visitors get a Cape Cod sampler
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- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:59:59 -0400
Cape Cod Times, MA, USA
Monday, October 22, 2007
Blind visitors get a Cape Cod sampler
By ROBERT GOLD STAFF WRITER
When Mary Haroyan opens her eyes, the world is blurry. She uses a walking cane
to help her around.
But for Haroyan of Worcester and several others with vision problems who spent
the weekend on Cape Cod, the area's beauty was crystal clear.
"Everybody loved the ocean," Haroyan said.
The Massachusetts Commission for the Blind and The Carroll Center for the
Blind, a Newton-based nonprofit group, held the three-day weekend at the Cape
Cod National Seashore for six blind or partially sighted people, mostly from
central Massachusetts.
The visitors soaked their feet in the Atlantic Ocean, hiked through Eastham and
built a bonfire on Coast Guard Beach. They visited a salt marsh, a red maple
swamp and the Captain Penniman House. Four sighted guides came along for the
trip.
Veronica Orozco made the trip, along with her brother O.T. The Worcester
siblings have impaired vision due to albinism. Veronica said being around
others with vision problems made the trip comfortable.
"You don't feel like an oddball," she said.
The weekend also included a tour by Barbara Dougan with the U.S. National Park
Service.
Janet LaBreck, commissioner for the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind,
said she hopes to plan future events, including a trip back to the Cape.
"We may be doing some (Cape Cod) Rail Trail," LaBreck said, including tandem
bicycle trips.
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