From the Whale’s Mouth to Our Hearts

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by Sharon Strzalkowski | From BayLines Express, June, 2025 A couple of months ago our Central Mass Chapter member and Audio Journal director Harry Duchesne brought up the idea of us visiting the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. I was thrilled at this prospect, as I have always been fascinated by whales and at the same … Read more

A Glide Retrospective

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by Myra Ross | From BayLines Express, May, 2025 A year ago, I went to New York for one of the first Glidance Demo Days. As a cane user who has had elbow pain caused by my cane use, and as someone who has never liked dogs even though my parents had a succession of … Read more

BSCB Member Spotlight: Barbara Black

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Submitted by Jeanette Kutash Barbara Black grew up in New York City, and attended college at State university of New York Stony Brook. She completed her Master’s Degree at Bank Street College in New York. Barbara was diagnosed as legally blind with R.P. at the age of 28. Initially she met a group of blind … Read more

What is a Blind Birder Bird-a-Thon?

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By Jerry Berrier | From BayLines Express, March, 2025 A couple of months ago, Martha Steele, an expert blind birder from Massachusetts, approached me and asked if I might be interested in collaborating with her on planning a bird-a-thon for birders who are blind. We then reached out to Donna Posont, a blind birder from … Read more

You Can Indeed Get There from Here

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By Cindy Wentz | From BayLines Express, February, 2025 While I have always been legally blind, my vision has taken a huge hit in the past few decades. I’ve gone from reading print and walking without a cane or dog to not seeing much at all. Fortunately, technology has developed in the inverse proportion to … Read more

BSCB Member Spotlight: Myra Ross

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Submitted by Jeanette Kutash Myra Ross was born in New York, and lived in the Long Island area where she attended elementary and high school. Before she was five years old she had multiple surgeries on her eyes, as she was born with cataracts and developed Glaucoma in infancy. Though legally blind, she had enough … Read more

We Can Be Proud of Our 2024 Accomplishments

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by David Kingsbury | From BayLines Express, December, 2024 This has been a year of notable accomplishments for BSCB. Our Board and committees have been hard at work addressing priority issues of benefit to our members and the Commonwealth’s blind and low vision community. While preparing this article, I reread the BayLines Express article I … Read more

The Retreat No One Could Have Expected

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by Sharon Strzalkowski | From BayLines Express, November, 2024 On the morning of September 25, I was outside at 6:35 to get my shared van to the airport and onto a retreat in North Carolina. “Candle in the Window,” a wonderful non-religious retreat just for blind and low vision people, was planned for that Wednesday … Read more

Our Wonderful Cruise

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By Lill Johnson | From BayLines Express, October, 2024 I consider myself very fortunate to have done a lot of traveling to many destinations, including Europe, the islands, and of course elsewhere in the States. Each trip was very positive and remains etched in my mind. Some of the trips included riverboats, which brought much … Read more

Accessible Gaming

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By Aaron Spelker | From BayLines Express, September, 2024 Since losing my sight 5 years ago, I have unexpectedly become an expert in the area of mobile accessible gaming. Over the past 5 years, I have started a Facebook group focused on mobile gaming for the blind community. I write articles about accessible gaming for … Read more