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The camera is focused on a young woman standing centerstage at the Garde Arts Center, and it captures behind her the empty but dramatically illuminated theater. The strains of one of the most powerful and empowering numbers on “The Greatest Showman’s” soundtrack begin.
As the lyrics are spelled out, literally, on screen, the woman uses American Sign Language to relay them. But she also conveys all the emotions in the song the hurt, the pride, the love, the self-confidence.
Along with her evocative facial expressions and arm movements, she mouths the words to “This is Me”: “When the sharpest words wanna cut me down / I’m gonna send a flood, gonna drown ‘em out / I am brave, I am bruised / I am who I’m meant to be, this is me … I’m not scared to be seen / I make no apologies, this is me.”
(New York, New York) â The American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) announced today the promised gift of a pair of portraits by John Brewster, Jr. The portraits have been given by Trustee Karin Barter Fielding and her husband, Dr. Jonathan Fielding, in honor of AFAMâs 60th anniversary. These works are the first by the artist to enter the Museumâs collection and are notable as representations of an iconic early folk artist.
Brewster is well known as a prolific itinerant portraitist who worked throughout New England in the late eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century, residing in Connecticut and later in Maine. His biography offers a rare window into the experience of a Deaf person in the first decades of the United States. Research on the artist confirms that he communicated by gesture and in writing. In 1817, when Brewster was in his 50s, he returned to Connecticut in order to attend the newly opened American School for the Deaf. He later went back to Maine, where he wou
Couple sue American School for the Deaf, say son was mistreated there (0)
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Sept. 17 (UPI) A New York couple allege in a lawsuit their son was beaten and mistreated at the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, Conn.
In the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport, Audley and Judith Muschette name West Hartford, two school employees and two West Hartford police officers as defendants, Courthouse News Service reported Monday.
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The Muschettes say their son, identified in court papers as A.M., 12, is profoundly deaf and has been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. They described several alleged altercations at the school.
On This Day: First U.S. school for the deaf opens in Connecticut
On April 15, 1817, the first U.S. public school for the deaf, Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons (now the American School for the Deaf), was founded at Hartford, Conn.
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The American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, Conn., was the first permanent school for the deaf to open in the United States, on April 15, 1817. File Photo by Ragesoss/Wikimedia
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West Hartford, Conn.: A Suburb With an Urban Aesthetic
This densely developed town abutting Connecticut’s capital city is a ‘little bit of a liberal enclave,’ equidistant from Boston and New York.
By Lisa Prevost
April 14, 2021Updated 9:42 a.m. ET
When Jonathan and Sarah Hammer began looking for a house in West Hartford, a bustling suburb abutting Connecticut’s capital city, it was immediately clear that they were in a fiercely competitive market. Early in March, they submitted an offer for $16,000 above the asking price for a five-bedroom colonial. Their offer was rejected, and the property later sold for closer to $90,000 above list.