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.

TUSCUMBIA, Ala. (AP) - 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. A chainsaw crew removed the ...

Ever since I can remember, Helen Keller has been etched in my brain. Like many disabled people, I’ve lived under the. ... But, Anne Sullivan and Keller’s family disapproved of the marriage.

An oak tree in Alabama that Helen Keller loved as a child had to be cut down. ... Helen Keller, deaf and blind student, lecturer and fund-raiser, poses in New York on Jan. 8, 1946.

TUSCUMBIA, Ala. (AP) - 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. A chainsaw crew removed the ...