Workers on Tuesday were cutting down a popular 200-year-old oak tree at the Alabama childhood home of Helen Keller, the deaf and blind writer who as a young girl famously was rescued from its ...

Workers at the birthplace of Helen Keller had to cut down a more than 200-year-old oak tree that the famed activist and writer climbed as a girl.

Keller, born in 1880 and left blind and deaf by illness, enjoyed climbing the tree as a child. An oak tree in Alabama that Helen Keller loved as a child had to be cut down.