Museum Pieces: Universal acceptance - The Martha's Vineyard Times
“We didn’t think anything special about them. They were just like anyone else.” Deafness in Chilmark was once very common, and medical anthropologist and author Nora Ellen Groce wrote a book about it, called “Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language.” I read an article she wrote for the Dukes County Intelligencer in February 1981, which sort […]
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